Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

This digital shift enables students to learn flexibly, from any location, facilitated by the widespread use of video conferencing tools. During my teaching career, I’ve observed that when students are given the autonomy to explore subjects that they are passionate about, their engagement and retention rates soar. Jossey-Brass.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Melissa Miller, VIPKid tutor “It will hurt financially, and it’s sad because I’ve had some of the same students for years,” says Kelly Tagliaferri, who has been teaching for VIPKid since 2018 and lives in Northern Virginia. The e-card templates VIPKid created for teachers to tell their Chinese students goodbye.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

E-rate modernization has not only helped schools boost their connectivity, but more than 10,000 districts were able to invest in Wi-Fi networks in the past four years. This is thanks to the Category 2 funding available via E-rate as mentioned in our newly released report, Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Future profits from owning that data would all but guarantee the return on Amazon’s investment, even if the company were to provide its educational services at a steeply discounted rate that made it hard for anyone else to compete. Don’t just dominate the market. Become the market. What Does This Mean for Public Education Leaders?

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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. Digital books can be interactive, allowing students to access videos, audio clips, images, slideshows and more from within the ebook. Tech That Won’t Survive 2018.

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techlearning

MAY 14, 2018

InfoComm booth C1162 May 14, 2018, Mahwah, NJ – Today, Bogen Communications, Inc., The multi-function NQ-GA10P is a PoE powered, plenum rated, 10-Watt VoIP intercom module that enables any standard analog speaker to be transformed into a VoIP intercom speaker. announced the introduction of version 2.0 software release. E7000 release 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

government terms “persistent poverty,” meaning that it has had poverty rates at or exceeding 20 percent for over 30 years. The obesity rate for children ages 10 to 17 in Kentucky was 20.8 percent in 2018 , the third highest in the country. Children and families in both of these areas face profound challenges.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

“In 2018, we were using 1980s technology and [the Internet] was in and out. We couldn’t download videos, and I even had to ask people to get offline during standardized testing so we wouldn’t bog down the network. It was a mess. I got constant complaints from students, teachers, and administrators.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

” More highlights from the 2018 State of the States Report: Only 1,356 schools still lack a fiber-optic connection or other scalable broadband infrastructure, down from 22,958 schools in 2013. billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. The cost of K-12 Internet access has declined 85 percent in the last five years.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

I am taking dates for spring, summer, and fall of 2018… Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). that is seeing content multiply at an expositional rate, it is also important to help students become seekers of knowledge and lifetime self-learners. E is for Endless Inquiry. Check out my Booking Page and as always… thanks so much!

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

D-ID – Digital people text to video Prof Jim – AI text to video to add to lessons Speaker Bios as Submitted Dan Fitzpatrick Dan Fitzpatrick is the author of The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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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.

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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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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. There are no cap limits, no throttle rates, and no chastising schools when they need extra bandwidth. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Mon, 07/02/2018 - 13:36. It may sound like something out of a mad-scientist video game, but it’s happening at Teasley Middle School in Canton, Ga., An educator teaching about cellular reproduction can point the projector at a blank wall and show the entire class a 3D video on cells undergoing mitosis,” Blount says. by Dan Tynan.

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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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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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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

E-commerce purchases of all types have surged. This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Pringle said that the NEA is currently working with the FCC on how to get increased investment in the E-rate program because, through that program, dollars can be distributed in an equitable manner. Next, although teachers may have the technology, they might not understand how to use it effectively, especially for remote learning.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

One example of a project that has sparked new ways of thinking in students is the 2018 collaboration between Riverview High School in New Brunswick, Canada, and Pheasey Park Farm Primary School in Birmingham, UK. Last year, however, the school’s standard-definition (SD) video production equipment was failing, so Berrott needed a new solution.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

e]ngagement is a fire that can quickly die out when things get challenging. In addition, a trend suggested that having choices enhanced homework completion rates compared with when no choices were given. However, students may also choose to present information through debates, video reports, demonstrations, or dramatic presentations.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 10, 2019

By definition, it’s the “motion” of “e.” Unlike in the tech industry, where “e” is “electronic,” in “emotion,” it’s “excite,” signifying that motion is present but not always seen. Learning Counsel’s 2018 National Digital Transition Survey of 406 schools and districts in the U.S. The Urgency. indicated trends worth mentioning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

As recently as 2018, nearly one in five students said they had trouble completing homework because of internet access. Credit: British International School of Hanoi “Teachers said the engagement from children was much higher than just using videos,” says James Buchanan, the school’s director of admissions, in an email to EdSurge.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 8, 2017 The History of the Future of E-rate | Audrey Watters → The decision by the new FCC to rescind its report on E-rate raises plenty of questions about the future of the program under President Trump. " Hopefully, not shades of future conversations about learning analytics.

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Online Program Management : Spring 2018 view of the market landscape.” And more in The New York Times.

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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 30, 2018

” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Via Mashable : “The e-waste nightmare lurking in your kid’s toy box.” — Rochelle (@Rochelle) November 25, 2018. Such a small world. The Not-So-Hidden Curriculum. .”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

At that time, a YouTube video took two minutes to buffer. And forget a long-distance video call, one of the few ways kids in this remote district not far from the Arctic Circle can interact with students outside their own school building. Roughly 14 percent of children statewide live in poverty. That’s not a given in rural Alaska.

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

hey siri show me a vision of hell made especially for me pic.twitter.com/wbs9E7BuKf — Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) July 19, 2018. Swedish student single-handedly prevents deportation of Afghan asylum seeker by refusing to sit down on flight pic.twitter.com/5YdS7EBF9X — The Independent (@Independent) July 25, 2018.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people.

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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. Iowa adopted the Seal for the 2018-19 school year and awarded it to 775 students in 2019.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

PiDay Source: [link] pic.twitter.com/R4hjfke2Ku — Federal Student Aid (@FAFSA) March 14, 2018. “New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. APPLY FOR IT NOW SO YOU DON’T MISS OUT ??

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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.” Via The New York Times : “On YouTube Kids , Startling Videos Slip Past Filters.” candidates submit and publish papers at much higher rates than women, even at the same institution.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4% In North Carolina , Elizabeth City State University, UNC Pembroke, and Western Carolina University said they would begin offering $500 in-state tuition starting in fall 2018. percent to 11.3

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Via NPR : “ Betsy DeVos ’ Graduation Rate Mistake.” House Resolution 899 – sponsored by Representative Tom Massie (R-KY) is just one sentence long: “ The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.” ” Yet. “Spoiler alert,” writes NPR’s Anya Kamenetz.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2016

.” The sale comes with conditions, including: 1) the Department of Education demands a letter of credit valued at 25% of the company’s federal funding allocation; 2) the company cannot add or change its educational offerings or open new locations until 2018; and 3) enrollment must be maintained at or beneath current levels.

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