Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). percent of units sold in the second quarter of 2016, up from 6.3

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

The FCC’s E-Rate program , a K-12 broadband subsidy, provides methods for districts and libraries to acquire discounts on WiFi connectivity. Jennifer E. Dolan’s 2016 research “ Splicing the Divide ” tackled this equity piece with data way before COVID-19 reached U.S. Federally, mandates do exist for schools and districts.

Broadband 149

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 149

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

Adobe 60

Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

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. The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level. I think if the error rates were even lower.,

Microsoft 105

Microsoft Accessibility E-rate Company 105

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market. percent and negative 1.1

Report 70

Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 21, 2019

Learning with 'e's - Steve Wheeler 5. The PIE blog - The PIE company 2016 Top Ten 1. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. There are thousands of blogs dedicated to education in the UK, and many of them have great content that can inspire, inform or challenge. Teacherhead - Tom Sherrington 3. Unported License.

E-rate 52

E-rate Education Social Media Company 52

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

CMS 79

CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 79

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. And it’s a good thing she did.

Data 60

Data E-rate Course Tablets 60

Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The problem of disinformation and propaganda misleading social media users was serious in 2016, continued unabated in 2018 and is expected to be even more severe in the coming 2020 election cycle in the U.S. A sample headline with a rating from experts, as shown in our experiment. Expert or user ratings? Kim et al.,

E-rate 38

E-rate Facebook Social Media System 38

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital innovator for her initiatives in enhancing student learning with technology, Fox has also served as President of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, and received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K.

Classroom 425

Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

After reading about a similar program in Colorado, Kirk and Gentry developed the Readiness Bus program in 2016. government terms “persistent poverty,” meaning that it has had poverty rates at or exceeding 20 percent for over 30 years. The obesity rate for children ages 10 to 17 in Kentucky was 20.8

Kaplan 105

Kaplan E-rate Report Tablets 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

E-rate 81

E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 81

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. As a Google for Education Certified Educator and Trainer, a Microsoft Innovative Educator, and an Apple Teacher 2016, Theresa has skills in educational technology that stretch across many devices and platforms to reach the needs of all.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 40

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

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. Mrs. Yonker teaches in South Central Kentucky, and is a 2016 KY Teacher of the year nominee. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq.

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2016

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. As a company, our focus and priority is the students we serve and the academic outcomes that result from our services.

E-rate 40

E-rate Survey Policies Technology Support 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. She chose the high school because she believed it could give her access to the type of company she wants to work for in the future. million donation from H-E-B in 2016.

E-rate 96

E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 96

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

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. 2016 Institutional Awards. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. Apply here. Bay Path University. Fisher College.

Tools 89

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 89

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. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

iPad 79

iPad Broadband Software Company 79

The Game Agency

AUGUST 29, 2019

Over the past decade, health care professionals have adopted game-based learning in volume, resulting in improved training and compliance rates, boosted patient care, and time and cost savings for clinical practices. ?. According to Bayer, reps can play virtually unlimitedly, and the company has seen positive results. James Rosser Jr.

Industry 40

Industry Training Game-Based Learning Gamification 40

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2016, two books were published: The Reading Intervention Toolkit , by Shell Education and Read Talk Write: 35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction , published by Corwin Literacy. Thank you, e Spark for sponsoring this extended episode today. I love it for activities to remain in the eSpark catalog.

Differentiated Instruction 337

Differentiated Instruction Elementary Groups How To 337

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

That’s among the questions we posed to Scott Pulsipher, who took the helm as the university’s president in March 2016. And my background from Amazon, but even in general building a startup company, everything starts with that customer. We haven’t raised our tuition, it’s been the same rate in that time period. Nine years.

Outcomes 83

Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 83

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In a nutshell, CIPA requires that schools and libraries receiving E-Rate funding “block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors).” Develop a toolkit for school leaders. Teacher Resources by MediaSmarts.

E-rate 40

E-rate Digital Citizenship Libraries Social Media 40

The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

Furthermore with companies like Neverware which can turn most any old device into a high-speed Chromebook, cost and tech support are no longer the barriers they once were. 2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet.

Chromebook 40

Chromebook Internet Safety E-rate Laptops 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. They tout “holistic” review yet boast about incoming students’ high test scores and aggressively try to increase applications so that they reject more, which lowers acceptance rates, which increases their perceived “selectivity” and moves them up in the rankings.

E-rate 110

E-rate Assessment Report Examples 110

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For some people, the policy shift had immediate consequences, as fortunes fell when stock prices for China’s giant edtech companies crashed. Photo by jianbing Lee / Shutterstock.

EdTech 152

EdTech Company Industry E-rate 152

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Additionally, few companies are able to learn about the impact of the training and educational programs available to their employees or use data to improve these offerings. While about 90 percent of companies who employ frontline workers offer educational and training opportunities, and U.S. Roles that have the fastest turnover rates.

Data 120

Data Industry Training E-rate 120

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. What then of the students? And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years.

EdTech 170

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

This week, I also enhanced the K-12 Cyber Incident Map by adding video clips of news reports of select incidents since 2016. If you are an Uber fan, time to get to know how the company really operates and question whether they deserve your business. What then of the students? And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years.

EdTech 150

EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 150

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

According to a 2015 study from the Wisconsin Hope Lab and a 2016 report by a group of nonprofits working on hunger and homelessness issues, an average of 13 percent of community college students are homeless. Others will purchase e-books, go to off-campus bookstores, purchase older editions and make photocopies to get by.

E-rate 62

E-rate Guidelines Report Secondary 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. But a national survey indicates this optimism may be misplaced: Just 16 percent of college instructors rated incoming students as “well” or “very well” prepared for college-level work, according to the 2015 study by ACT, the creators of the standardized college entrance exam. School just isn’t for me.

E-rate 99

E-rate Industry Report Survey 99

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Learning.comoffers a complete online safety curriculum that provides lesson plans and activities, reporting on district E-rate compliance, and seamless integration with Google Classroom and other widely used learning platforms.

E-rate 41

E-rate Online Assessments Industry Report 41

Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Post-Election Positioning: Implications for Education Companies.” 11 November 2016. “I strongly suspect that under a Trump Administration there will be pressure to reduce the overall universal service fee, which would put pressure on the E-rate and other programs,” Levin said. EdWeek Market Brief.

E-rate 210

E-rate EdTech Company Strategy 210

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. Now, a small but growing number of nonprofits and for-profit companies are saying they can deliver at least some of these experiences — and benefits — via the internet, and thousands of parents are signing up.

Laptops 153

Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 153

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher. " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

In a nutshell: Right now schools use a variety of digital programs that collect data that could be of use to teachers, but programs made by different companies don’t play well together – and some programs won’t even allow teachers to export data out of the system to use it themselves. Yeah, it’s a mouthful.

E-rate 41

E-rate Education Data Libraries 41