Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

Digital divide is a term used to describe the gap present in society between those who have access to the internet and technology and those who don’t. Reduced Payment Plan, an initiative that reduces the fee to set up a tuition payment plan for fall 2020 from $25 to just $1. That’s been a goal at my institution.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Schools often face resource constraints–many using outdated technologies, preventing them from implementing the cybersecurity tools they need. Our world is more hyperconnected and hybrid than ever before, particularly since 2020 when many schools had to transition to online schooling due to the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Reopening schools during a pandemic will also require new investments in technology — from thermal body temperature scanners to sanitation tools — and additional staff hiring. Local education agencies can then use the funds for expenses incurred from March 13, 2020, through Sept. One key thing to note is that the U.S.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 8, 2020

The post FREE Access to Fluency Tutor to Support Student Literacy Remotely appeared first on Shake Up Learning. I don’t endorse a lot of products, but Texthelp produces some of the best accessibility tools and they work seamlessly with my favorite Google tools. FREE access to Fluency Tutor for Google Chrome™ .

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

For the last seven months of 2020, school districts have gone through extreme changes regarding how learning is happening in a pandemic-induced educational environment. The Speak Up data revealed an increase in students’ access to mobile devices, tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks. Digital Learning During the Pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Aigner Picou, a program director at the Learning Agency Lab, spent a lot of time talking to teachers in 2020. She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. Picou says it’s time to do away with the misconception that students will grasp tech tools simply because they’re growing up in a digital age.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. My goal for this year is to see how I’ll make [digital tools] effective in the classroom.”. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. “I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. Eighty percent of survey respondents indicated that they were confident in learning new edtech tools, while 20 percent said they struggled. Photo by Gorodenkoff / Shutterstock.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For one, access to education has been significantly broadened, facilitating a wide range of teaching strategies and learning styles. In some cases, demand far outstripped supply, leading to backlogs of requests for laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other school-issued devices.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The post 13 Tools to Record Audio on Chromebooks and Other Devices appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Audio is a great learning and reflection tool. So I’ve put together a list of 13 Tools to Record Audio on Chromebooks and Other Devices. Find the best tools for Chromebooks can sometimes be challenging.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The conversation has quickly shifted from whether technology should be used in learning to how we can use it to improve learning and ensure that all students have access to high-quality educational experiences. students are unable to access school online, and 42 million Americans don’t have the means to purchase internet access.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 31, 2020

Infrastructure and access To begin, schools must answer questions of what infrastructure and access students and teachers need to participate in digital learning experiences. Do students and teachers have access to a reliable, high-speed Internet connection? Some technological considerations include: – Internet.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

We appreciate President Joe Biden’s commitment to expanding HBCU funding, but believe that sustaining that effort is just a necessary first step toward creating an equitable, accessible and diverse higher education ecosystem. We also understand that the digital divide isn’t just about access, but also know-how.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 6, 2020

IPEVO P2V CAMERA (2009) __ OVERVIEW Fast forward to mid-2020, and IPEVO has just released their 8th gen model, the newly updated IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera. IPEVO offers two free software programs to support this: Visualizer and Visualizer LTSE (accessibility software to use with the document camera). x 4.25” x 11.85” (11.6

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

DMPS distributed nearly 21,000 laptop computers to students throughout Des Moines during two weeks in mid-April. Des Moines Public Schools distributed nearly 21,000 laptop computers to students during two weeks in mid-April. May 5, 2020. March 31, 2020. March 31, 2020. March 31, 2020. Staying Connected.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 31, 2024

Notably, these flippable PDFs eliminate the need for downloads, providing instant access and readability. Ever since Adobe withdrew support for Flash Player in 2020, these magazines lost popularity. Additionally, these apps may not be compatible with traditional laptops or desktops. Connect with us now!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The student might miss classes on account of a broken laptop. If we didn’t find that, a week or two weeks may have led to failing the class,” says White, 67, who at the time was managing director of student access and success at the private Pennsylvania school of 7,000 students. “If Lumina Foundation led the round.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. on March 18, 2020. School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. Leaders have largely had to find their own way, spurring a hodgepodge of local innovations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

When John first came to me in fall 2020, he was a ninth grader and we were in the thick of the pandemic, doing emergency remote learning. During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. It’s not like you can just drop the tool in and the flowers will bloom and the birds will chirp.”

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 16, 2023

With over 17,000 students and a diverse range of devices, including iPads and Windows laptops, the district struggled to provide students with a safe and productive online environment due to reliability issues, poor reporting capabilities, and inadequate support from their existing filter provider.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. None of those costly resources were essential drivers of online enterprises as they are today.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. billion in U.S.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 22, 2020

Kudos to Google for stepping up to the plate during the 2020 school closures and giving us many free features and updates to help teachers, students, and parents. If you are a Google for Education school, combining these two remote learning tools makes a lot of sense. © Shake Up Learning 2020. As teachers across the U.S.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. Globally, edtech spending is predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” Then there was the iPad. Indeed, $2.3

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020. The early finish hasn’t changed the organization’s planned closing date of August 2020. And Marwell wants all of them to experience the types of teaching and learning high-speed internet access facilitates.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The combination of Renaissance and Nearpod will empower teachers to drive the full learner experience with a deep set of real-time data, content, and tools to accelerate learning and growth for all students.”. In 2020, teachers launched approximately 19.5 million Nearpod lessons, collecting approximately 1.5

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

fire up their laptops and gather a bundle of snowball microphones. With the click of a mouse, their laptops become studios, and they’re ready to record. As teachers and students around the country are working on their podcasts, we checked in with educators to see what digital tools they’re using. The good news?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. In that video, Karl imagines he is the commencement speaker for the Arapahoe High School (AHS) Class of 2020, reflecting back on the past 13 years of schooling for that cohort.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Biggest challenge: MDCPS’ challenge was to increase graduation rates so that at least 90 percent of students will graduate with a standard high school diploma by 2020. Students in those courses and grade levels—at all schools—were given access to the technology.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In the Beginning … In the winter of 2020, I was asked by my school district to help develop a brand-new way of welcoming staff members into the district. The day started off with our IT team sharing a bit about the technologies that we use and helping new hires log into their new accounts.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We share these tools with parents so that they can reinforce the strategies at home. We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. Members of the highly competitive APSD Dream Academy (and Dream Scholars, their middle-school counterparts) are given laptops for 24/7 use.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Following is an excerpt of the discussion, which is accessible in full here. Kevin Hogan : But I have to ask you as a visionary and as an innovator in this space, back when you were beginning the ideas for Khan Academy was a global pandemic ever within one of the perspectives that you had of how your tools would be used?

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

In the winter of 2020, I was asked by my school district to help develop a brand-new way of welcoming staff members into the district. Hardware (Interactive Boards, Laptops, Document Cameras etc). In the Beginning …. It was from this blueprint where we started crafting a more efficient and effective model for NEO.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

Second, the Logitech Rugged Combo 3 Touch is made for iPads with a place to store a stylus and features a trackpad and keyboard allowing touch screen devices to turn into a laptop-like experience. As always, remember that apps and tools are excellent compliments to an excellent teacher. This gives you the best of all worlds.

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