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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 Educate Stakeholders About Cost Comparisons and Success Stories. During a school board meeting, Phillips arrived with a set of props: three PVC pipes she borrowed from the school division’s plumbing shop.

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?34.9 Million US Students—Up 10.4 Million since 2015—Now Connected Online

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The mantra makes sense for someone like Marwell, whose nonprofit organization has an audacious mission: to make high-speed internet access available for every student in the US. But in order to do that, EducationSuperHighway must first determine the state of internet access—and track its progress—for schools across the country.

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8 Reasons to Create Interactive Textbooks for Engaging K-12 Students

Kitaboo on EdTech

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. Once published, the etextbooks should be easily accessible by the users.

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The SLIDE Study: A chat with Deb Kachel (Part 2)

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Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Deb : Using the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) data from 2015/2016 school year to the 2018/2019. Pennsylvania district comparisons [link] Advanced Search Tool data options. Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. billion was spent on software.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in October of last year that he’d step down at the end of 2015. ” Accessibility and Technology (and the Role of Governments and Corporations). It’s another one of those open questions: what will happen to “access” to the Internet under President Trump?