eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2017

Chromebooks continued their steady growth in education, securing 58 percent of K-12 market share in 2016, according to a new report examining technology trends in the K-12 education market. The report from Futuresource Consulting notes that annual mobile PC shipments in the K-12 education market grew 18 percent year-on-year in 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Google Classroom, which is a core app within G Suite for Education, is reminiscent of learning management systems like Schoology or Blackboard or Canvas—but is free for any educator and works on Chromebooks, iPads and other mobile devices. Updates and Upgrades: Apple Classroom officially hit the app store in March 2016.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

According to an article published in Education Week in 2016, 27 percent of pre-k-12 teachers were absent for more than 10 school days per school year. In 2016, this ratio nearly doubled to one sub for nearly every 6 teachers. The ELF empowers students to set the pace and path of their own learning. teachers in 2011.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I served as a communications specialist from January 2015 to July 2016. Since August 2016, I've been focusing mostly on three elementary schools in my district, working as their digital learning coach. And then circumstances came together to move me back into educational technology.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Principals at blended learning schools agree digital content increases student engagement. Among the teachers in these classrooms, 50% or more stated that because of digital learning, students are: Working together more often. More motivated to learn. Taking greater ownership of their learning. Online Video.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 23, 2016

The post Using Google Apps to Support Reading and Writing in the Classroom (Recorded Webinar) appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Below is a webinar that I gave on August 2, 2016, with Texthelp, the makers of Read & Write for Google and Fluency Tutor. Recorded Webinar from August 2, 2016). The Golden Treasures of Google!

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 16, 2016

As a Digital Learning Specialist for Royse City ISD, Cody gets the privilege to help teachers navigate instruction in a digital age; specifically, how to incorporate digital tools to positively impact learning. This time last year I was hired as the Digital Learning Specialist for Royse City High School.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Acer has launched its new Acer Education Seed Program, which offers K-12 schools across the United States an opportunity to test either a cloud-based Acer TravelMate B117 notebook with Windows or an Acer C730E Chromebook with Chrome OS for free, with no risk, since there is no obligation to purchase. based K-12 schools can apply here.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 20, 2017

In our 1-to-1 Chromebook environment, I have the awesome responsibility of building relationships with the teachers and empowering them to utilize technology as a tool in instructional design and planning, student learning, and their own professional growth. Today we're spotlighting Ambassador Jeff Richardson. What do you do?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The district launched the program this school year, supplying 42 teachers across all grade levels and subject areas with iPad Minis, Google Chromebooks or laptops for a cost of about $475,000. “Our plan next year is for every kid in the district to have a Chromebook to take home.”

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2018

Today, we have a gigabit wireless network deployed at our elementary, middle and high schools , and starting this fall, we expect to have deployed more than 3,000 Chromebooks to our students, teachers and administrators. Given today’s realities, going digital was the clear choice. Transform the Classroom with Digital Tools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

CUE , a nonprofit professional development organization for education technology, chose Touchjet , the first company to create a touch projector with a standalone Android operating system and a recent finalist of the 2016 Edison Awards for innovation, to help bring interactive technology to classrooms around the U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. Students will receive iPads.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Laptops/desktops Chromebooks iPads Unsure/any of the above. Email me at Kasey@ShakeUpLearning.com , or submit this PD request form to bring Shake Up Learning to your 2017 event. It’s NOT About the App, It’s About the LEARNING (presentation). Digital Differentiation with G Suite (presentation). ” – Stacy Menifee.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

Students enrolled in Learning Ally access the organization’s online audiobook library — 82,000 human-narrated textbooks and literature titles – via personal computers, smartphones, Chromebooks, and Apple or Android tablets.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets?

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 9, 2016

As a Digital Learning Specialist for Royse City ISD, Cody gets the privilege to help teachers navigate instruction in a digital age; specifically, how to incorporate digital tools to positively impact learning. ” In this three-part series, learn what makes this program such a success! Chrome Squad.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 1, 2016

As a Digital Learning Specialist for Royse City ISD, Cody gets the privilege to help teachers navigate instruction in a digital age; specifically, how to incorporate digital tools to positively impact learning. © Shake Up Learning 2016. Did you miss the other parts in this series?

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CDI COMPUTER DEALERS CHROMEBOOK TRADE-IN PROGRAM ( cdicomputers.com ) CDI Computer Dealers has launched a Chromebook Trade-In Program that provides a hassle-free, environmentally-friendly way for schools to dispose of their aging Chromebooks and obtain a free two-year premium extended warranty on the new ones purchased from CDI.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a signed order Tuesday that she was restoring the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools , the for-profit accreditor that had waged a fight for reinstatement since the Obama administration withdrew its recognition in 2016.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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