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3 Levels of Connectivity K–12 Schools Should Consider

EdTech Magazine

Tools like interactive smartboards are helping teachers engage their students, enticing students to be more actively involved in their education. As connected classrooms become more ubiquitous, schools will need to ensure that individual classes have the necessary bandwidth to incorporate these new tools. by Calvin Hennick.

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Modern Classrooms and Personalized Learning Are the Perfect Pair

EdTech Magazine

Modern classrooms are open and flexible and have writable surfaces, modular furniture, one-to-one devices, hands-on learning with makerspace activities and robust broadband connectivity. According to Samsung America, 83 percent of teachers believe that virtual reality could improve learning outcomes. . by Ryan Petersen.

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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

Edsurge

2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. Continue Efforts to Improve Connectivity In Schools Just last week, one of my portfolio company founders was excited to pilot a new literacy tool in a school in Richmond, Calif., only to discover that there wasn’t adequate broadband to execute the lesson. What do you say?

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Every student needs summer school this year to combat coronavirus learning loss

The Hechinger Report

The seminal Coleman Report published in 1966 showed that student outcomes inside the classroom are predicated on their circumstances outside the classroom. are doling out computers and providing access to Wi-Fi — ostensibly essential learning tools — because of the coronavirus emergency. According to 2018 study by the U.S.

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find or Understand it?

Edsurge

To address this problem, grassroots parent-networks have been sprouting up to give parents the tools they need to make use of public data systems. He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I

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How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it?

The Hechinger Report

To address this problem, grassroots parent-networks have been sprouting up to give parents the tools they need to make use of public data systems. He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I

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How Transparent is School Data When Parents Can’t Find it or Understand it?

MindShift

To address this problem, grassroots parent-networks have been sprouting up to give parents the tools they need to make use of public data systems. He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I

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