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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

In California, College Connect is Rowland Unified School District’s solution to making college and post-secondary pathways more equitable for every student. The district invested in mobile hotspot vehicles that are deployed daily across eight areas of town. Department of Education in 2011.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

It is top of mind for CEOs; the percentage of them who are “extremely” or “somewhat” concerned about lack of available talent increased from 56 percent in 2011 to 79 percent in 2019. And it appears that investing in last-mile training has a secondary benefit: higher retention. economy $1.2 trillion of GDP over the next decade.

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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program.

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Technology in Education and Opportunity Cost

Reading By Example

Smartphones were a frequent topic, especially from the secondary school leaders. Distractions and inappropriate use seemed to be the common reason for some of the administrators’ disdain for students’ mobile devices. My administrative career began in 2011 which is around the time that iPhones started to come into prominence.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2011 $100,000,000 (President Obama’s request: $0).

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New app launches for online video coaching

eSchool News

New app release enables direct uploading from mobile devices. A new iOS app from Edthena , a video coaching platform for classroom observation, lets teachers upload video of classroom instruction directly from mobile devices. Our mobile app provides an option for an on-the-go upload that remains reliable and easy to use.”.

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Week of August 22nd, 2011 - Live and Interactive Webinars in Blackboard Collaborate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

David Simpson ([link] will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools. In this presentation, I will guide participants step by step on sign up and download Mendeley to their computer/mobile devices. link] CLASSROOM 2.0