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Being Mobile: The Holy Grail of Educational Technology Is Within Sight

The Journal

In this week’s blog, we reflect on our 2010 prediction: By 2015 "every student in every grade in every school in the U.S. will be a using a mobile computing device, 24/7." We revise that prediction slightly and add in predictions about the Trinity of Educational Technology: hardware, software, and network.

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Swing Education Raises $38 Million in Series C Funding

eSchool News

SAN FRANCISCO – Swing Education , an online marketplace that connects schools and substitute teachers, announced today $38 million in Series C funding. The funding enables Swing Education to invest in its growth and better address the nation-wide substitute teacher shortage. The need for substitute teachers is acute.

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CoSN 2015: Education’s Role in the Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Future

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith The world of education IT is on schedule to reach a tipping point, where the availability and affordability of mobile devices could completely reshape the way we learn. But will educators take that momentum and turn it into true change or go back to the old ways, powered by new technologies?

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Swing Education Surpasses One Million Hours of Classroom Substitute Teaching

eSchool News

. – Substitute teachers sourced via Swing Education , a tech-enabled staffing marketplace that matches schools with qualified substitute teachers, have filled more than one million hours of classroom instruction in the 2022-23 school year. To learn more about Swing Education, visit SwingEducation.com.

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8 Education Books For The Digital Age: The Connected Educator Series #CorwinCE

The Web20Classroom

My book, The Relevant Educator ships today. Below is a post (thanks to the most awesome Mark Barnes) about the entire Connected Educator Series from Corwin. Enter Corwin Press and the Connected Educators Series. T he Relevant Educator: How Connectedness Empowers Learning , by Tom Whitby and Steven Anderson (Hey, thats me!

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12 Mobile Learning Trends to Watch Out For in 2015

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

May 7, 2015 We are at the juncture of a monumental period in the history of education where mobile technologies are driving learning.With the growing use of hand-held mobile devices and broad band.read more.

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How edtech supports the success of the Nordic Education

Neo LMS

Our previous blog described the background to Finland’s successful education system and today we’ll unpack that a bit more, but also take a more detailed look at the role edtech plays in that success. Of particular interest, I thought, was Finland’s focus on early childhood learning — what they call ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care).

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