Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. While it’s always risky to make predictions, I believe there were several strong trends from 2018 that suggest the shape of things to come in 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

teenagers, 59 percent , say they have experienced cyberbullying, according to a 2018 report from Pew Research Center. . That’s the sort of question driving administrators and IT professionals to find proactive ways to protect students, providing physical security as well as safety online. . A majority of U.S.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Go after quick wins : Show by example that learning analytics may improve your current learning processes. Other systems: provide multiple types of information.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

For example, today, students need a minimum of 100 kbps of Internet bandwidth—the FCC has anticipated that by 2018, 1 Mbps per student will be the minimum recommended bandwidth for digital learning. The diagram below provides a high-level overview of a basic district network: How Much Bandwidth Should Your School Board Plan for?

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

million students do not have access to the minimum bandwidth recommended for digital learning (100 kbps/student), and many more will need to upgrade to meet the FCC 2018 goal of 1 Mbps/student. However, E-rate program rules require you to re-bid if you want to make a change to the service described in your establishing Form 470.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the past few years, concerted efforts like E-rate modernization and various statewide initiatives have helped bring digital learning opportunities to students across the nation. Let’s look at three examples of how digital learning is changing the face of today’s classroom learning. Regional School District 12.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. For example, Kindle books can’t be read on iBooks. Tech That Won’t Survive 2018. It’s no wonder proponents of digital books are pushing for change.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E. Joyce : Thanks, Deb.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although more than 20,000 Mississippi children age 5 and under are enrolled in Head Start, and Mississippi legislators have slowly added seats to the state’s highly-rated public preschool program, nearly half of the state’s 4-year-olds do not attend preschool at all, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Center.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. For example, some districts have benefitted from existing infrastructure build projects in their areas. WHY HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION MATTERS.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 64

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. For example, some districts have benefitted from existing infrastructure build projects in their areas. WHY HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION MATTERS.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Tools 63

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She's recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital Innovator, served as president of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018, authored many books, The Canva Classroom, the Quiver Classroom, Teaching Land and a Barker Town. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. Take Adobe , for example.

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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.

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E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

In recent years, though, a variety of virtual counseling models have popped up, from College Possible’s Navigate program, which operates primarily via phone, text and e-mail, to a pilot from College Advising Corps, debuting this fall at two rural Texas high schools, which relies primarily on video conferencing. I’d never been to a college.”.

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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.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. In Connecticut, for example, public schools as well as other organizations receive broadband services from the CEN. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A self-taught programmer, he found on-and-off work building websites, managing social media and handling e-commerce for dental offices, toy shops and other clients. In 2018, Cachu took a job at an Amazon distribution center about 30 miles from his home in Escondido, Calif., Still, these gigs weren’t enough to land a full-time job.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Take active learning as a major example. Respondents rated each of these 1 (strongly disagree) through 6 (strongly agree). standard deviation decrease in the rate at which respondents were persuaded by a teachign method. Aragón, O. L., & Graham, M. CBE—Life Sciences Education , 17 (3), ar47. and then stop.

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E-rate Survey Study Data 98

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 4, 2018

Dr. Laurie Korte talks about e-learning design that engages learners and common mistakes of e-learning and blended learning classrooms. Date: April 4, 2018. She teaches online and gets all these great ratings. Quizzes area great example. There are many examples here that really made a lot of sense.

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Strategy Learning E-rate Course 175

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since the residence’s opening in 2018, 21 CSUF students have been given safe, secure housing with wraparound services provided by formerly incarcerated staff members who reinforce a culture of striving and mattering. For Project Rebound participants, the recidivism rate is less than 1 percent; for John Irwin House residents, it’s zero. “I

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E-rate Study Report Accessibility 113

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Huh uh,” Kunz said, “none of those.”

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E-rate Elementary Education Report 116

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

According to the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE), collaborative technologies are “applications that facilitate teamwork and collaboration between students and experts around the globe; for example, knowledge-sharing tools, videoconferencing, digital project spaces/sites, chats, and collaborative schedulers.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

And congrats on being first off the blocks to f**k up education in 2018! Via Edsurge : “After Net Neutrality , Experts Expect Changes to FCC’s E-Rate.” And the business of student loans is off to a strong start in 2018 with fundraising news in the venture capital section below. ” Americans wonder.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2019

A 2018 study reviewing the impact of federal grants for school police on 2.5 million students in Texas found a 6 percent increase in middle school discipline rates, a 2.5 percent decrease in high school graduation rates and a 4 percent decrease in college enrollment rates. Native American girls had a school arrest rate 3.5

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

So here’s an early contender for “Worst Education ‘Take’ of 2018’” by Gary Wolfram in Education Week : “ Make Public Education a Market Economy – Not a Socialist One.” It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady.

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Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. “My Flawed ISTE 2018 Journey Report,” writes Tim Stahmer. I mean, clearly that’s what all the responsible corporations do.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Via The Sacramento Bee : “ Charter school backers spent millions on statewide races in 2018. ” Here, via Edsurge , is a great example of how, instead of investing in public infrastructure, schools wield ed-tech to outsource and privatize key resources for students and communities. .” They still lost twice.”

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018, for the first time in district history, a majority of Sioux City’s 14,976 students, about 52 percent, were people of color. As of 2018, more than 10 percent of the city’s residents were born in another country, according to the U.S. For example, students are no longer graded on attendance at evening concerts.

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E-rate Elementary Report Study 98

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” TIME’s new cover: This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America [link] pic.twitter.com/RayMe3ieO0 — TIME (@TIME) September 14, 2018. ” More on this from Education Week’s Ben Herold. ” She’s 9.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” ”) The CEO of Schoolrunner writes in Education Week’s Market Brief , for example, that “ Science of Character Development Initiative to Help Students Achieve Goals.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr. ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The cost of developing courses, for universities, remains incredibly high – $350,000 for each course that was part of the Georgia Tech and Udacity partnership, for example. Coursera launched “ Coursera for Business ” in August, for example, just a few weeks after Koller announced her departure from the company.

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