The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 50

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Today we are excited to announce the release of our first annual 2015 State of the States report on Internet connectivity in America’s K-12 public schools. Since then, thanks to the modernization of the E-rate program that made an additional $2.5 Provide every classroom with robust Wi-Fi.

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Broadband Report E-rate Digital Learning 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. No rush trips to school where they hope to find a janitor who can open the classroom. The Tech-infused Classroom. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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eBook Khan Academy Tablets Chromebook 188

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. This problem has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus, as widespread school closures have forced districts to turn to online learning. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 Still, the tool isn’t for everybody.

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Broadband E-rate Tools Data 60

Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 15, 2016

On November 16, Governor Brownback and Education Commissioner Watson announced the launch of the Kansas Connect and Learn Initiative in partnership with EducationSuperHighway. The 2016 Kansas Digital Learning Report indicates that 26% of Kansas school districts believe their network infrastructure is not digital learning ready.

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E-rate Analysis Learning Digital Learning 40

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Our final #EDENchat of 2015 focused on new learning environments, namely MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended learning methods. Those who participated shared their experiences of MOOCs and flipped learning both as teachers and as learners. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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MOOC E-rate Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 28

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today, we released our fourth annual State of the States report: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day and we are proud to announce that 40.7 million students still don’t have access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning, down from 6.5 billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Meeting 56

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2015 $0. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.). FY 2013 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. He started by gently encouraging students not to leave any classroom worksheet problems, especially the hardest ones, blank.

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E-rate Strategy Report Common Core 108

Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process.

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eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

September 14, 2015. Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced today his commitment to connect every K-12 classroom in the state to high-speed Internet in order to support digital learning and equal opportunities for all Montana students. We have been surpassing state goals and benchmarks for years with our teaching and learning.

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Broadband E-rate Classroom Analysis 40

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

A Microsoft spokesperson says over email that this technology is publicly available, and that the company is aware of dozens of K-12 schools that are using it in the classroom. He describes to EdSurge the modality effect , which says that it’s better to learn from narrations and visuals rather than texts and visuals.

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Microsoft Accessibility E-rate Company 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. million more students that now have the minimum connectivity they need for digital learning.

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Meeting E-rate Broadband Blended Learning 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. During the 2015-16 school year, teachers began using STEMscopes Texas as their primary science curriculum. What changed? Read more.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 60

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The results also detail the impact of changes to the E-rate program, as well as the growing issue of digital equity for technology access outside of the classroom. Additionally, school systems with high monthly costs (over $50 per Mbps) for internet bandwidth decreased from 32 percent in 2014 to 19 percent in 2015.

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E-rate Broadband Survey System 40

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. I think the latter."

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning in 2015. We’ve discussed the merits and utility of video games in the classroom before, so we won’t beleaguer the point. With that in mind, 50 of the best video games for learning are listed below. 50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning. ?. by TeachThought Staff.

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Video E-rate Learning Mobility 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2016

“When we released the 2015 State of the States report on the progress of broadband connectivity in America’s schools, we found that 21 million students in America’s schools are still without the speed they need for digital learning,” said Evan Marwell, CEO of EducationSuperHighway.

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Broadband Tools E-rate Digital Learning 40

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

This kind of connectivity is necessary, the authors note, to help connect students to high-quality digital learning opportunities. It also highlights state leaders who have helped their states put these digital learning opportunities directly in front of teachers and students. State leadership for infrastructure.

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Report Broadband E-rate Advocacy 40

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has something for every classroom (as well as a pretty cool pep talk!). To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq. Listen Now.

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Google Twitter Data Tools 290

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million students and 2.6

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. This is a piece of hard data relating to equity.

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Study Libraries E-rate Data 99

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. New legislation introduced in Congress would support “innovative strategies and methods to increase out-of-school access to digital learning resources” in an effort to boost both student and educator engagement.

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E-rate Digital Divide Digital Learning Industry 40

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

Want to learn more about connecting learning to career skills? Integrating Digital Portfolios into the Classroom. There are five ways academic institutions can weave digital portfolios into the student experience, which will lead to increased confidence, better classroom outcomes and higher success rates in the job market.

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E-rate Course Outcomes Survey 90

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 21, 2016

In spring 2015, for example, we piloted a transparency program that supported 15 districts in rural Virginia in comparing their speeds and pricing and negotiating with service providers to make upgrades. The result was 500% more bandwidth for only 15% more cost, allowing these districts to meet a connectivity level of 200 kbps per student.

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Broadband E-rate Tools Meeting 40

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Forsyth News Guilderland (NY) Central School District will receive $531,447 from the state’s Smart Schools Bond Act, of which the lion’s share—$498,723—will go for classroom technology, including buying new Chromebooks for each middle- and high-school student. What are the one-, two-, and five-year goals for terms of digital learning? ?

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Chromebook E-rate BYOD Online Assessments 40

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 12, 2017

million students now have at least the minimum connectivity they need to take advantage of technology in the classroom, representing 88 percent of school districts nationally. per Mbps in 2015 to just $7 per Mbps nationally today. The nation has made huge strides in classroom connectivity during the past year. million teachers.

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Broadband Report E-rate Digital Learning 40

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAwards) from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) last November. Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company.

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Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 82

IT Bill

JUNE 2, 2016

For the past several years, online learning in higher education has focused on delivering a highly structured learning environment. The inverse relationship between learner autonomy and course structure is important to keep in mind as we design for emerging distance learning models. CC-BY by Oliver Clark on Flickr.

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Digital Badges E-rate MOOC LMS 28

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s the present—except at the significant percentage of schools without reliable high-speed internet. Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

As digital tools play an increasingly larger role in learning, states are targeting school broadband access for all students. As high-speed broadband internet becomes critical for student success in and beyond the classroom, a number of state education leaders are forging partnerships to strengthen school broadband throughout their districts.

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Broadband E-rate Accessibility Elementary 40

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

It’s happened to all of us– we’re at school trying to access the perfect website for a learning activity at school and… it’s blocked. The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (Annenberg Classroom). Educate students: Teach a lesson in your classroom or library about filtering. Develop a toolkit for school leaders.

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Libraries Social Media 40

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As we close 2015, I invite you to join me in reflecting on the year's events, our accomplishments and in looking forward to the year ahead. Perhaps the single most significant development in ensuring access was the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) modernization of the E-rate program.

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E-rate Libraries Meeting Accessibility 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

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. classrooms. Daniel Owens, partner at The Learning Accelerator. billion was spent on software.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 81

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

"Anytime, anywhere" learning has been core to the vision of education technology leaders since the Internet, laptops, and mobile devices entered the classroom. With insufficient technology funding, the focus of our limited resources has remained on the classroom. However, I believe it goes beyond the financials.

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Broadband E-rate Laptops Survey 40