eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Pearson/Harris Poll reveals new findings on mobile device ownership and how wi-fi access impacts learning in school. The survey, released by Pearson and conducted on its behalf by Harris Poll, finds that while student ownership of mobile devices continues to increase, wi-fi connectivity at school lags behind home access.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Can you guess what students said was their most-used mobile device in 2003? In 2014, only one in four students had direct access to technology in class. So, what was students’ most-used mobile device in 2003? Hint: It burned. Students developed a vision for learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Andrew Weiler Looking at Cultural Differences in Motivating Students to Seek Information: A Study Conducted in Colorado Springs, CO and Kampala, Uganda - Dr. Sherry R. K-5 Art Educator 11:00am Daffodils and tulips-PBL - Ruty Hotzen Modern Language Global Speaking Standards: ACTFL Can-Do Statements - Harry Tuttle, Ed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Google Classroom-2014. Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Class Dojo-2011.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

A growing number of entertainers, including Chapelle and musicians Jack White and John Mayer, prohibit the use of mobile devices during their performances. Founded in 2014, the San Francisco-based company says that it has leased pouches to more than 1,000 schools across the country, including a handful of colleges and universities.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades. Learning in a mobile age: An investigation of student motivation. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, February 2014, 30(1), pp. Extrinsic motivation, however, is learning because of external factors.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2015

The other day I had a great conversation with Nick Alm, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota studying Entrepreneurial Management and Social Justice. InvolvEdu is free web and mobile app for high school and university students that allows them to get credit for what they do outside of class. Why InvolvEdu?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2018

million—are parents, and millions more are in other postsecondary training programs, according to a 2014 report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. And they often must fit in coursework and studying after their children go to bed or in slivers of time between taking care of them on weekends. A quarter of undergraduates—4.8

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 3, 2015

First, mobile learning. Sure, there were lots of devices released in 2014 and the years before, but 2015 was the mobile age. And learning platforms are starting to get mobile developers to publish mobile apps and have them updated on a regular basis. Just to get things going, here’s a recap of 2015.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. The focus is on tertiary education. The MOOC backlash.

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techlearning

APRIL 29, 2015

A whopping 81 percent of higher-ed students used smartphones and tablets for studying in 2014—up 40 percent since 2013, according to a new survey from McGraw-Hill Education.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2017

For over 40 years, KET has been a provider of adult education study materials. Broadcast programs for GED® study began in 1975, followed by a GED® Study at Home program in 1984. In early 2014, KET launched Fast Forward , an online study system that prepares learners for the GED®, HISET®, and TASC high school equivalency tests.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

87% of students fall into multiple categories, while only 13% prefer only one learning style, according to a 2014 study from the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. While there are many choices, tablets can provide the mobility and flexibility that teachers want and students need. Really important.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Well, that was at the Federal Communications Commission’s 2014-15 short-term target of 100 Kbps per student for using tech in the classroom. Think lots of nuts-and-bolts, this-should-go-into-a-checklist details punctuated with brief case studies. schools had high-speed broadband connections.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

We have gotten much more mobile-friendly , as there are Collaborate apps for iOS and Android, and the conference schedule and session links can be easily accessed on mobile devices by going to [link] from your mobile device or clicking on the "mobile schedule" link in the Summit menu.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

When low-income students get a need-based grant, in addition to other financial aid, they are more likely to study science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) than are peers who don’t receive this boost in aid, according to a recent study from the Hope Center for College, Community and Justice. Higher Education. percent versus 4.0

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. Enuma has conducted its own efficacy studies as well, she says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 2, 2017

And again, they also did a number of studies around that and actually and actually just presented at a big conferences, AERA, she published a paper on it and found out that actually one of the really interesting studies was around – I think it was second grade and math facts. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator, ISTE 2014 Kay L.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Georgia’s Liberty County School System to outfit its school bus fleet with wi-fi in an effort to extend the school day — the first school district in Georgia to provide students free internet access through mobile wi-fi units. to 11:30 p.m.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. The flexibility to mount it on a mobile stand that moves freely throughout the campus was a huge benefit to our educators. So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As the 2014 competition finalist Shiv Gaglani, cofounder of Osmosis, recently shared, “The impact Milken-Penn had on our business was significant. Mobile internet access in homes has mushroomed from 9 percent in 2010 to 92 percent in 2017. Study Tree. The contacts we made were formative. The win also put us on the map.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Time & Place Our mobile era is transforming the traditional workplace. Between 2013 and 2014, the U.S. Employees are mobile and employers are reinventing their workplaces to recruit and retain them. According to a 2014 study , 90 percent of surveyed institutions required faculty to be on campus to teach online classes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Echoing themes from her popular 2014 TED Talk on childhood trauma, Harris shared her latest research linking adverse childhood experiences to developmental delays, academic struggles and even chronic illness. That message was reinforced by pediatrician Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, who is also founder and CEO of The Center for Youth Wellness.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The study provides evidence to back up the sense in many communities that climbing into the middle class has become increasingly difficult for low-income families. The University of Alabama spent more than $100 million on non-need-based aid in 2014-15, which was the most of any public university that year.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 15, 2016

In 2015, spending on hardware for educational purposes amounted to $15 billion, an increase of 7 percent from 2014, according to Futuresource Consulting, a U.K.-based classrooms to support digital assessments and personalized learning, to the growth of different mobile personal computing devices in other parts of the world. .”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

But since it wasn’t our house, they could use the bathroom first,” Kimberly, 12, told the child advocacy organization Children’s Defense Fund for their The State of America’s Children 2014 report. In 2014-15, the rate of homelessness among U.S. But at school, she was labeled truant. “I I could not go to recess because of this.”.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

Social Studies: [link] - tons of resources on creating effective flipped videos. I co-presented two workshops this year. link] [link] [link] social media - @METCenews [link] Solution for a teacher Web site, assignment submission, and a dozen other things that we do in a dozen different ways, but all in one place.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. Artificial Intelligence.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Funded in 2014 with $100 million from the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, inBloom intended to collect massive amounts of personally identifiable student data and use it to “personalize” learning to each student. Studies of cyber charters have concluded that students learn very little when enrolled in them.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Since starting in 2014, Cell-Ed has served more than 1,000 students like Albina and Sylvia, giving them the opportunity to learn English anytime, anywhere. Cell-Ed is a standout digital learning tool in the adult education space because of its emphasis on mobile-ready technology that does not require Internet access.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. FY 2014 $0. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2013 $0.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Ten years later, according to the study , there were 44 seats per 100, a 34 percent drop. Meanwhile, the number of pre-kindergarten seats for four-year-olds statewide has risen, according to the study by Tulane University’s Education Research Alliance for New Orleans. Pre-kindergarten has positive effects on students , studies show.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

percent annually through 2014, according to investment bank BMO Capital Markets. And studies suggest that lower-income families and Hispanic and Black households are more likely to use home-based child care programs and may be more impacted more by their decline. Recent forecasts point to a growing industry. In 2019, total U.S.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Mobile phones are in the hands of young people everywhere, so it is quite natural that teaching and learning opportunities are progressing towards the mobile domain. We piloted our first LBMLG in a core undergraduate Business course involving more than 400 students in 2014. Roger Edmonds. University of South Australia.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 27, 2015

Today’s students are studying and learning differently – a change confirmed by the widespread adoption of digital studying. Our recent study found that 81% of college students use mobile devices (such as smartphones and tablets) to study, the second most popular device category behind laptops and up 40 percent in usage since 2013.

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