eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Just in time for ISTE 2016, the teacher-parent communication app Bloomz is announcing a major award and introducing new features, including offering its basic schoolwide product for free. The site combines the features of several collaboration and social media platforms in order to optimize communication with parents.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Social media had to be blocked for all and I, for one, wasn’t going to waste any of my precious time using it professionally or personally. This meant desks had to be in orderly rows, mobile devices out of site, and common areas free of anything that could distract students from the task at hand – achievement on standardized tests.

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MSEDTechie

JUNE 14, 2016

DO: Make a plan, but download the ISTE Mobile App to stay open to other possibilities. View the program online , follow the conference hashtag #iste2016 on social media to keep up with the latest information, and use the ISTE mobile app to enhance your ISTE experience even more. If you want to connect.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Digital footprints are not exclusive to online shoppers or avid social media users; everyone has one, including your 5-year-old child. However, “age limits” did not stop persistent pre-teens from joining social media and gaming sites. Taking Precautions. The Current Situation.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Digital footprints are not exclusive to online shoppers or avid social media users; everyone has one, including your 5-year-old child. However, “age limits” did not stop persistent pre-teens from joining social media and gaming sites. Regardless, 10 years later, data collection came to be mostly implicit.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 23, 2016

Join me virtually for a free webinar broadcast at the Badge Summit, Moving with Mobile Devices at 1pm Denver/2pmCT/3pmET/8pmUK. Lisa Dabbs, Tanya Avrith, and Erin Klein will be presenting about edtech tools, social media in education, #NTChat, and connected classrooms. Team Mobile Learning Implementation Resources.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

Multiverse— founded in London in 2016 under the name WhiteHat by the son of a former U.K. As a company that recruits and trains apprentices on behalf of other employers, the Multiverse model resembles that of Techtonic , a Colorado company that has trained aspiring software developers since 2016. Techtonic raised $6 million in 2019.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

million students who graduated this past spring Also good news is the fact that employers are estimated to hire about 5 percent more graduates from the class of 2016 than 2015. This is good news for the 1.9 Today’s colleges and universities recognize how to attract and retain students by offering superior services in all areas of campus life.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 6, 2016

Frank Smith Virtual reality’s role in education is obscured by the hype curve, according to a leading industry technology analyst.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

Chicago-based Parker Dewey, which launched in 2016, facilitates short-term contract projects, such as blogging, social media or data cleanup, that typically are done remotely, require 10 to 40 hours of work total and pay $20 to $25 per hour. Micro-internships like Nabeel’s are another relatively new option.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Alex Blumberg, the co-founder and CEO of Gimlet Media, a podcast network, shared about that kind of intimacy during a 2016 Podcast Movement talk: The Second Golden Age of Audio. There’s an authenticity to it that is difficult to produce in any other communication channel.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2016

San Mateo, CA-based marketing software company Marketo announced today a growth of 44 education customers who have signed on, renewed or expanded their agreements from January to July 2016. And increasingly, colleges are shifting to digital marketing strategies, social media outreach and mobile platforms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Digital tools include recorded video interview systems that analyze applicants’ micro-expressions and databases of workers built with information scraped from social media. But some leaders of client universities have previously reported significantly improved levels of student engagement with campus career resources.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today on the podcast we’re talking about news literacy, and the challenge of teaching students to navigate the relentless flow of information they get through social media and websites and YouTube and. Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? Millennials are widely using live streaming feature on various social media platforms.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. Tagged on: September 7, 2017 When can schools punish students for racist social media posts? If you haven’t checked it out yet, the dozens of stories are quite something taken all together.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

K-12 cyber incident that I’ve identified since the start of 2016. Tagged on: September 7, 2017 When can schools punish students for racist social media posts? If you haven’t checked it out yet, the dozens of stories are quite something taken all together.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. affordances of mobile Web 2.0.

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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. Mobile : as humanity continues to migrate ever-increasing swathes of life into handhelds, educators slowly follow suit.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. Examples include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, and fake profiles.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Delaware Valley Regional High School has launched two digital programs from Evolution Labs, which utilize web, mobile app, mobile messaging and social media to help students and parents explore a range of issues, from social media bullying to sexual assault to mental health.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2017

He officially joined forces with the group as CEO of ClearScholar in the spring of 2016, and with the help of $500,000 in pre-seed funding from co-developer Butler University, the first version of ClearScholar was launched into reality (and onto the radar of other high-profile investors).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

At a time when students are witnessing black adults and children being murdered on video and social media while pundits and online trolls lash out at black activists, it becomes even more important for our schools to be a safe place to have conversations about race and power.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

New engagement platform uses web and mobile-based technology to help students and their parents navigate K-12 challenges. Bozza, Executive Director of the NJASA will formally announce the partnership and program at the upcoming Techspo 2016 conference in Atlantic City, January 28-29. Social Media (pressures and responsible use).

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Using charts, sixth-grade students collected cell phone usage data and recorded every time a student received a notification from social media apps and texts from family and friends. Of the 20 students who participated in the study, there were recorded 7,800 notifications, averaging one notification per student every eight minutes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2018

Age of Learning aims to tap into Tencent’s vast distribution network across its social platforms. In China, few companies reach as many people as Tencent, whose mobile apps cover a vast array of business, entertainment, social media and payment services.

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In South Carolina, for example, there were simply not enough qualified teachers to fill positions during the 2017–2018 school year: 6,700 South Carolina teachers left their positions after the 2016–2017 school year, with 4,900 leaving teaching altogether. In addition, 45% of job seekers use their mobile devices every day in their job search.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 4, 2018

We include books, blogs, and newsletters that cover a range of topics from social media and disinformation to Gamergate. Social Media Wellness. Helping students find a healthy balance in their social media use can be challenging for parents and educators. Digital Citizenship: A Community-Based Approach.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

We include books, blogs, and newsletters that cover a range of topics from social media and disinformation to Gamergate. With mobile devices and anytime, anywhere connectivity, moments of boredom are now few and far between. Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning. And democracy will suffer.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. That’s good. We shall see. An example?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

DO: Make a plan , but download the ISTE Mobile App to stay open to other possibilities.Now that you have attended ISTE once, you might know what to expect. Get active on social media, as well, for official ISTE updates and information by connecting through Facebook, Google Plus , Twitter and Youtube.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 4, 2018

We include books, blogs, and newsletters that cover a range of topics from social media and disinformation to Gamergate. Social Media Wellness. Helping students find a healthy balance in their social media use can be challenging for parents and educators. Digital Citizenship: A Community-Based Approach.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 21, 2017

Without further ado, here are 5 interesting reads to get you through your weekend: " America’s Great Divergence ," by Alana Semuels in The Atlantic : "Half a century ago, economic opportunity and upward mobility were available to many white Americans, regardless of where they lived and what kind of education they had.

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