Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In November 2016, over 250 school district leaders, researchers, thought leaders, and other partners came to Baltimore, Maryland to learn from one of the nation’s most forward-thinking school districts, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). It’s about success.”

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Accessibility E-rate Dropout Meeting 120

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Chief technology officers and IT professionals in the K-12 field have a lot on their collective plates these days, what with the continued proliferation of technology in their schools, new governmental programs and compliance requirements, and the push to effectively integrate their technology in the classroom. Broadband equity.

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Trends E-rate Broadband Technology 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

They leave their locked unit and head down to UNC’s Hospital School on the second floor, where three classrooms are furnished with desks, smart boards and white boards. For the duration of class, the young patients have only one responsibility: They’re there to learn. Schools can play a role in that recovery just by doing what they do.”

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E-rate Report Libraries Accessibility 113

Education Superhighway

MAY 30, 2019

In 2016, EducationSuperHighway worked with the Virginia Department Of Education (VDOE) to hire an E-rate and school technology specialist. Tell us about how the K-12 Learning Infrastructure Program (KLIP) began and your role in the program. But we wanted schools to think bigger than just E-rate.

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Accessibility E-rate Broadband Meeting 75

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

They just weren’t ready for distance learning, and a big part of that was that too many students lacked adequate WiFi access to get to virtual class. Then, there are states that lacked laws prior to 2020, but began responding to the at-home learning requirement with new legislation for future needs. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 149

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. Technologists are known by many names, but to some, they are simply “wizards.” We have taken the risk out of education,” Collier declared.

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Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

eSpark’s Theory of Learning is grounded in seven research-based elements – teaching practices or design elements – that are directly linked to student learning outcomes. 1: Differentiation Keeps Learning Accessible. 1: Differentiation Keeps Learning Accessible. Our team uses an 85% positive rating as a baseline.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the effort to ensure that all students have equal access to the broadband they need for digital learning, there are challenges and triumphs every year. There is no doubt, however, that incredible progress has been made in connecting America’s classrooms to high-speed Internet. In 2013, Internet access cost a whopping $22 per Mbps.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Accessibility 63

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

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Strategy EdTech Broadband E-rate 231

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. took bipartisan action to upgrade their schools in 2016 – with 5 states connecting 100 percent of their students to high-speed broadband. 35 million students.

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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. Note: One 2016 study showed that 92% of students prefer print to digital.).

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eBook Khan Academy Tablets Chromebook 188

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

Compare & Connect K-12, which launched in beta in early 2016 and is now fully launched and available, displays public E-rate application data and lets users explore bandwidth speeds and compare broadband prices with school districts in a specific region or in any state across the country.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Data 51

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Dr. Robb has written more than 25 books on reading but also takes 3-4 months each school year as a classroom teacher. The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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Differentiated Instruction Elementary Groups How To 337

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention. RCCC’s e-Text initiative has saved students up to 50 percent on the cost of their course materials, and has increased classroom engagement and retention.

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Data E-rate Course Tablets 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

14, 2016 — Former U.S. Related: When the future of learning prompts uncomfortable discussions. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute affirms that teachers of color have numerous positive effects on students. That’s why it is vital to listen to diverse educators who are already in the classroom. Weekly Update.

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E-rate Report Policies Strategy 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Like bookstores, schools were, and to a large degree still are, understood to be buildings—physical spaces where learning and social interaction takes place. Courses are taught—remotely and often asynchronously—by highly-paid master teachers who leverage adaptive learning technologies that build an individualized learning path for your child.

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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

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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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

That makes the donations ‘nice to have’—but sadly limits the impact that they have on students and learning.” Autodesk provided more than 335,000 students and educators from secondary schools with professional software and services for use in classrooms, labs, and at home. Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises?

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 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

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 Still, the tool isn’t for everybody.

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Broadband E-rate Tools Data 60

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2017

school districts have reached the minimum connectivity–100 kbps per student, as recommended by the Federal Communications Commission–to help students effectively use technology in the classroom. Eighty-eight percent of U.S. Thirty-four governors across the U.S.

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Broadband Report Accessibility E-rate 40

Securly

JANUARY 12, 2017

Web filtering is required by law, as long as schools wish to receive e-rate funding to supply their digital classrooms. From 2007-2016, the number of students who experienced bullying roughly doubled from 18.8% To learn more about web filtering, sign up for our newsletter: Cyberbullying & Self-Harm Detection.

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Social Media E-rate Facebook Elementary 100

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. Unported License.

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MOOC E-rate Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 28

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. We talk about what students of all ages can do.

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

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. Shmoop will offer feedback on everything: topic, coherence, organization, and even nitpicky things like sentence structure and grammar.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 63

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 105

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. Having said that, I have already committed to writing a series of posts specifically on the U.S.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

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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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 62

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Through the activities in their curriculum, students “bee-come familiar with bees” by learning why bees are so crucial to the environment, how they can help the populations in their neighborhoods, and learn observation and data-collecting skills. You can learn more about Operation Bee here. About the Presenters.

OER 40

OER Tools E-rate Blackboard 40

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.

E-rate 109

E-rate Strategy Report Common Core 109

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.

eBook 64

eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

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.

Tools 89

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 89

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.

Report 40

Report Broadband E-rate Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. The FCC [Federal Communications Commission] modernized the E-rate program in 2014, paving the way for governors and other state leaders to step up to take meaningful action to upgrade schools. 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

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

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Significant setbacks are especially likely for the most vulnerable students — kids with disabilities and those living in poverty, who didn’t have a computer, a reliable internet connection or a workspace to learn at home. And learning is taxing; students’ brains might need a break after almost seven hours of classes.

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Study Elementary Training Strategy 144

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