Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In late October, education policy and advocacy group iNACOL opened its annual conference with a bang. Attendees were routinely stuffed with free food and plenty of flashy swag, including iPad and laptop giveaways. The company has since been acquired and the domain is no longer active.

Education 80

Education Advocacy Conference Laptops 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

Learning 121

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 121

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

As of 2017, the Linux operating system: ran 82 percent of the world’s smartphones, had 99 percent of the supercomputer market share, ran 90 percent of the public cloud workload, and. Developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company” represented only 8.2%

OER 73

OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

At IU Northwest in 2017, Latinx students like Perez had a six-year graduation rate of just 28 percent, while the graduation rate for white students was 35 percent. From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state.

Dropout 107

Dropout Laptops Study Report 107

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

Tools 58

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 58

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student?

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Tagged on: August 26, 2017 Are you a student?

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150