Remove 2013 Remove E-rate Remove Learning Remove Magazine
article thumbnail

What You Need to Know About E-rate

Digital Promise

One of those programs is the Universal Service Program for Schools and Libraries, better known as E-rate. E-rate helps schools and libraries get affordable Internet access by discounting the cost of service based on the school’s location – urban or rural – and the percentage of low-income students served.

E-rate 120
article thumbnail

K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

I told them we were at 1 gig in 2013, we went up to 2 gigs in 2015, and now we need 10 gigs,” Phillips says. “We MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where K–12 schools can turn to secure funding for personalized learning programs. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Photography by: Jonathan Timmes.

E-rate 314
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Isn’t it time to stop Wikipedia shaming?

NeverEndingSearch

I actually just have learned, since for the year, well, a couple of years, that anyone can put things on Wikipedia, so that’s why I don’t really go to Wikipedia first because not everything is true on there. So I just kind of learn– I feel like you can just learn something off of the Wikipedia page.

E-rate 111
article thumbnail

Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Douglass High School in New Orleans learned to play the Garifuna spiritual rhythm, a beat called the HunguHungu, at Palmento Grove Cultural Center. She hadn’t just learned to navigate airports and new cuisines.

Report 76
article thumbnail

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

." Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Technology switch leaves some upset | Columbia Daily Tribune → Battle High School students and teachers have had iPads since the school opened in 2013. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction.

EdTech 170
article thumbnail

Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Remember Time Magazine’s darkening of the OJ mugshot? NewseumED : Learning tools on media literacy. Time For Kids shares a video News Matters in which 6th graders discuss what they are learning about critical thinking and the news. Fake News vs. Real News: Determining the Reliability of Sources NYTimes Learning Network.

article thumbnail

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” ” asks Graham Attwell.