The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. She provides continuing education for practitioners at national and regional conferences.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In light of the recent Covid-19 pandemic and other natural disasters such as floods, drought, firestorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes, universal access to the internet has never been more important.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Not so fast, say education publishers and retailers. Instead, educators asked how quickly it could print out materials. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But more than half of all respondents said they are optimistic about technology’s promise as an educational tool and to spur kids’ creativity. Lovely maintains that virtually all families need better education on how to use technology more productively in the home. Today, 42 percent of children have their own tablet.)

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

.” Unfortunately, there is a wide gap between the number of under-skilled Rhode Islanders and the number of adult education openings available through the state. Even if there were enough adult education services to help each person, some adults are unaware of which skills they need.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

I was working in the trenches of the most confrontational aspect of education reform, trying to get laws passed to authorize vouchers, charter schools, tax-credits scholarships and education savings accounts. Professor Christensen was planning to apply the disruptive lens to social issues and education was his first priority.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Another issue is that the eligibility of Managed Internal Broadband Services (MIBS, or Managed WiFi), and Basic Maintenance for Internal Connections (BMIC) also expire at the end of FY2019.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

These companies have committed money, mentors and other resources to provide educational opportunities for underserved communities. One such effort is Black Girls Code , started in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer by training who has worked in biotech and pharmaceutical companies. You don’t learn by reading a book.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2012

Join me Tuesday, May 29th, for live and interactive Future of Education conversation with Dr. Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education ( NITLE ). Bryan Alexander is author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media , published in April 2011 by Praeger.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. For example, the Broadband for Montana Schools program contracted with several E-rate consultants and provides grants to help Montana schools successfully apply for the E-rate Program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

This makes Byju’s one of the rare unicorns in education technology and the fourth most valuable privately held company in India. A career in education might sound unsurprising given Raveendran’s upbringing. He offered online live and video classes through broadband and satellite to teach students beyond the centers’ walls.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools. But some places were more prepared than others.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. Department of Education. Digital content and open education resources still require mediation and planning.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The 2011 ALT-C Conference is being held at the University of Leeds on a campus that is as convoluted as the maze of arguments and discussions we are enjoying. of which more in later posts from ALT-C 2011. Broadband is a human right by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Explore with us some of the key trends that point toward specific futures for libraries, and engage in conversations with civic, social, and education innovators to learn more about what they think about the future, and how libraries can become an integral part of their future visions. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Explore with us some of the key trends that point toward specific futures for libraries, and engage in conversations with civic, social, and education innovators to learn more about what they think about the future, and how libraries can become an integral part of their future visions. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is funded at over $160 million per year. Some educators have proposed scrapping standardized testing altogether. Educators weigh the value of standardized testing during the pandemic. In 2011, the renowned — but aging — U.S. Related: To test or not to test?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

There was also plenty of rain in the education technology industry, where venture capitalists and private-equity investors unleashed a deluge of cash. education technology companies raised $1.45 educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. The organizations referenced in this post are also leaders in the field of educational technology. URL: www.christenseninstitute.org/education. Organization: Code.org ®.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Education Politics. Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov. Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. Here are four people I spent some time with and whose powerful ideas are changing education: Miguel Brechner. He has a vision for free and open forms of education and sees them as the only way forward for us all.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Seventy-five different languages are spoken in the schools, and many of the refugees who populate classrooms haven’t been formally educated in years. “I The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." Layoffs at General Assembly (7% of staff). Why, schools of course.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” “ What does Trump’s executive order on education do? ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.”

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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