EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2018

billion of them in use in 2017 — from TVs, cars and coffee makers at home to security cameras, lighting systems and thermostats at businesses and schools. With an eye on the benefits, nearly half of all K–12 schools already have a formal IoT strategy in place , according to CDW’s 2017 survey. With spending at $1.2

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MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

Without the school computer, she wouldn’t have had her own laptop to work on. Some see distributing school laptops as a tool to extend learning during the summer and reduce the disparities between lower and higher income students. million mobile computers were sold for K-12 classrooms for a few hundred dollars.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

I mined their 2017 report for some details to guide our thinking on the digital divide with regard to education. Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the last decade you will also know that mobile is booming: the statistics bare this out with a 20% year-on-year increase in the uptake of mobile broadband (data) subscriptions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

"A big push that we started to do with COVID was to make our website mobile accessible" because some students lacked enough laptops at home. Pooja Sankar, CEO of Piazza In hindsight, though, she admits that a focus on students and professors led the company to ignore issues they probably should have noticed sooner.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

When she became the district’s first educational technology director in 2017, Briana Allen looked for a better solution. EdSurge: How has Vivi affected teacher mobility? And teacher mobility definitely encourages students to pay more attention to the learning and instruction that’s going on. Briana Allen: It's had a huge impact.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

“Basically what it says is if you look at American college students, pretty much all own laptops and smartphones,” Hill says. “A The 2017 study finds that laptops “are king, smartphones are queen” and as for tablets, they’re “on the way out.” Tressler says more and more of technology is becoming mobile. “So

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 15, 2022

Before considering the differences between them in detail, consider how you consume content on your mobile. While consuming content on your mobile phone, you may have noticed that in the case of some apps and websites, the content ‘flows’ to fit your screen size. Images in this format are exactly positioned relative to the text.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Doug Ducey announcing that the state would “donate” 200 mobile hotpots to its public schools in an effort to kickstart private hotspot donations. In states like Kansas and Arizona , leaders have long underfunded their public education systems. This led to the spectacle, early in the pandemic, of Arizona Gov.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. The move follows in the footsteps of Content in Context, once a hot stop for education publishers, which held its last event in 2017. Over the past decade, technological advancements turned education technology from a fringe to an increasingly mainstream market.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Another advantage of Amazon Kindle is that the Kindle app is available on all kinds of devices like tablets, smartphones, laptops, etc. Discover How An Ebook Conversion, Publishing & Distribution Platform Can Help You Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish & securely distribute interactive mobile-ready ebooks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Representatives reported that the release would happen “sometime in the 2016-2017 school year.” Simultaneously, Sheth’s been hearing from teachers for years that a laptop with a keyboard doesn’t have “everything that they need to be productive in the classroom.” We want to make a bigger impact in the classroom,” Sheth said.

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EdTechnocation.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

On September 7, 2017 the G Suite Updates blog posted this article: Drive File Stream launching to all G Suite customers. This has nothing to do with the Google Drive web app (drive.google.com) or the mobile apps for iOS or Android that we all are used to using. It's always best to go straight to the source! So what is this application?

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MindShift

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes with children now have a mobile device — such as a tablet or smartphone. Mobile devices are now just as common as televisions in family homes. The growth of mobile is a dramatic change. ” Copyright 2017 NPR. . ” Copyright 2017 NPR.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Julia Nikhinson/ Associated Press In 2017, as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice intended to address widespread racial disparities in how students were disciplined, schools in Wicomico County agreed not to misuse emergency petitions. The situation escalated, she said, when the teacher argued with him.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Cross-posted from edscoop.com EdTechTeam and CDI Computer Dealers have joined up to provide the Google-powered laptops along with workshops for educators. CDI, which provides educational hardware for pre-K through 12th grade, says it has worked with more than 10,000 learning institutions — deploying over 250,000 Chromebooks in the process.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

K-12 mobile devices, Microsoft still has some catching up to do. According to Futuresource Consulting, a market research firm, in the third quarter of 2017, Google’s Chromebooks captured 59.8 percent of K-12 mobile computing shipments in the United States, whereas Windows had a 22.3 When it comes to the market for U.S.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We purged through the winners and compiled a list of educational tools and gadgets for you to look for in 2017. Even better, you can program it with your mobile devices. Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 27, 2017

Ask for what you want Prior to working at a large, comprehensive high school, I taught at a small, selective-admissions sci-tech academy where the latest hardware and software were ubiquitous and every student went home with a laptop. This meant that over 95% of the students that I taught (six years ago!)

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Laptops Tablets Software Accessibility 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

For the Rodriguez family, higher education has already become a symbol of upward mobility, a life-altering path to meaningful careers and the sort of financial stability that Margarita and Rafael have never known. percent in 2017 to 9.2 Rafael said as they huddled together in front of Emily’s laptop. percent in 2021.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million as of 2017; the U.S. But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. Related: Do Millennials Learn Better on Mobile Devices. pulls in at third at 568,000.

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techlearning

AUGUST 23, 2018

WeVideo and SkoleTube first partnered in January 2017. WeVideo worked closely with Skoletube to create a unique version of its video editing platform that tightly integrates with the SkoleTube platform on both mobile and desktop devices. Since then, WeVideo has been used by tens of thousands of students and teachers across Denmark.

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Chromebook Classroom Microsoft Video 43

Fractus Learning

JUNE 11, 2021

Create custom maps with My Maps, a by-product of Google Maps, on Android devices or laptops. Search maps in Google Maps mobile app to find places on the go. With the Mapbox geo-visualization mapping platform and products, teachers and students create professional-looking mobile maps and interactive web maps.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and even cell phones are providing students with opportunities to access the internet for researching, communicating and social learning. Research from Asurion (2017) found that Americans check their phones every 12 minutes. Technology has become an integral element in our students’ educational journey.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. On the other hand, per-student tuition revenue has increased by 96%.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

In 2017, EdTech industry investments rose to a record-breaking $9.5 Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? By Steve Halliwell and Cheryl Miller. What’s hot in education technology?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

We carefully designed the first laptop cameras placed on the keyboard side so when a Chromebooks is flipped, the camera faces outwards for students to hold like a tablet. Having Adobe mobile apps on Chromebooks fills a much needed gap,” said Kelly Kermode from Forest Hills Public Schools in Grand Rapids, MI.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. trillion in outstanding student loan debt. “My

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

I personally understand the impact of what mobility can do socially and emotionally to children,” Bedell said. Mikaela tried to keep up with online classes in the spring, using a laptop and mobile hotspot loaned from the district, but it was tough in their small room, Johnson said. You’re leaving behind friends that you’ve met.

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Meeting Mobility Policies Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. Our brains focus on one thing by shutting out others.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

The program is likely one of the reasons NJIT ranks 65th in the country in the 2017 Social Mobility Index by CollegeNET, a privately held company that provides technologies to colleges and universities. That is why NJIT’s summer program bans cell phones, laptops, and for math classes, calculators. They have an average GPA of 3.2

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

From desktops to mobile : Our clunky desktops and computer labs have made way for laptops and mobile devices and 1:1 rollouts that may be used more flexibly wherever kiddos choose to plop to learn, explore and create. Consider adding mobile making kits to your collection. NMC/CoSN Horizon Report K12 for 2017.

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Libraries Robotics Maker Movement Mobility 61

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Unlike many districts where a lack of devices and spotty Wi-Fi made adapting to online learning difficult, almost all Lindsay students already had access to their own tablets or laptops — which are age-appropriate and replaced every three years — and community Wi-Fi. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 130

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 18, 2019

These include impairments in hearing, vision and mobility. In 2017 half of all teachers said that their students each had a computing device. Today, the percentage of students with an iPad, laptop or Chromebook is clearly higher. Students who use wheelchairs, walkers, braces, or other mobility aids face many access challenges.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

At the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in October 2017, several districts that have been involved in 1:1 initiatives for many years came together to discuss their experiences. A student from Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation enjoys the mobility of his device. WHAT DEVICES ARE YOU USING, AND IN WHICH GRADES?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. And determined. Outside of the U.S.,

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

I only have to dig out my laptop when I need to write instead of just read. This group was described in February 2018 as unsurprisingly highly engaged with mobile, and their usage patterns indicate trends that the mobile mainstream will follow over the next six to twelve months. In March 2017, the U.S.

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