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Microsoft to Use TV White Space to Put Wi-Fi on Rural School Buses

EdTech Magazine

Microsoft to Use TV White Space to Put Wi-Fi on Rural School Buses. Microsoft wants to outfit school buses in Hillman, Mich., Microsoft Pairs with ISP for Experiment to Outfit Buses with Wi-Fi. What makes Microsoft’s bus Wi-Fi experiment different? jena.passut_7651. Wed, 05/02/2018 - 11:41. It’s in the air. CDW Segment.

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Google Offers Free Cloud Access to Colleges, Plays Catch Up to Amazon, Microsoft

Edsurge

Microsoft’s cloud service, Azure, doesn’t fall too far behind, having launched in 2010 and doing business with GE Healthcare and DocuSign. Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services offer an education partnership in free trials or discounted pricing. For the time being, Microsoft Azure’s. Google breaking in? . Cloud leaders.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

The conferences were the most publicly visible part of SIIA’s education programming, attracting executives from big textbook publishers along with their peers from major technology companies with growing education footprints, including Apple and Microsoft. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable.

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Make Way for Boston's Latest Edtech'lings

Edsurge

via mobile devices. The company was started in 2010 by Dan Kindlon and Steve Buka, both experts in child development and is in use in places that include schools in Providence, RI, Somerville, MA and Region 14 schools in Connecticut, among others. Companies already in its network include Lululemon, Microsoft, Nestle and Pepsi.

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

At the 2010 Virtual School Symposium sponsored by iNACOL it was clear that blended instruction is quickly becoming a viable instructional option as many states adopt seat-waver initiatives. Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Cloud computing is here to stay.

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Understanding and Immersing Ourselves in How We (Can) Learn

The Principal of Change

I have watched adult learners in sessions have a mobile device, laptop, and pencil and paper, and choose the latter of the three for the majority of the time. The focus is on (as always) what’s best for learners. We should not limit the opportunities for our kids, nor our adults. This same choice is also important for adults.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010. This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. percent of new mobile computing device shipments in U.S. This Chrome OS share, of course, has made Microsoft angry. And determined.

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