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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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

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Digital Divide Broadband Report Accessibility 218

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2020, after the onset of the pandemic, the program was created to provide funding to schools and libraries to purchase eligible equipment and services for students and teachers who lack connected devices, including laptops, tablets, or even broadband access.

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Technology Software Training Broadband 117

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

In fact, more than three in four teachers say that job-related stress has taken its toll on them during the 2020-2021 school year. For example, do this directly by donating supplies, funding a GoFundMe page set by a teacher, or by pitching in their Amazon (or any other company) wish list. Donating tech teaching equipment.

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Education Digital Divide Laptops Trends 363

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

It’s estimated that by 2020, two-thirds of jobs will require a postsecondary degree, but only 6 percent of incarcerated individuals in the U.S. New momentum, she adds, is driven largely by the federal Second Chance Pell program that was introduced in 2015 and recently extended through 2020. Several have started their own companies.

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Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 133

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The labor market took a generational hit in 2020. That’s the premise behind why investors are betting on companies like Career Karma , which helps people find reskilling opportunities in technology fields. But also people that have created $100-billion dollar companies. Before COVID-19, retraining was a popular career choice.

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Laptops Training Digital Divide Company 110

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. IT Director Barrett Puschus immediately called his team to action, waking many of them up, so they could shut down the district’s entire system.

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eBook Laptops Analysis Outcomes 104

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Limited quantities on desktops, gaming laptops, high quality monitors, thunderbolt docks, wireless mice and more. They have everything from computers, gaming, laptops, or even a slick wireless mouse. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 432

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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Company Comparison Laptops Groups 143

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. BPS applied for help from the federal Emergency Connectivity Fund to purchase additional Chromebooks so students can keep a laptop at school and have one at home.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 144

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With the clock ticking here and across the country, technology companies and other vendors are pushing products and services they claim can help speed up student recovery — and urging districts to invest in them now. million would cover touchscreens, cameras, microphones and speakers, as well as laptops and training for teachers.

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Elementary Training Laptops Technology 113

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. While some students haven’t had full access to computers or the internet, others have discovered that their laptops are too old or too slow to adequately handle the tools they’ve been assigned.

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EdTech Survey Laptops Online Learning 164

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. Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors.

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Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 159

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The new BrightLinks also support wireless interactivity via Miracast ® and wireless displays using Epson iProjection software to connect laptops and individual student devices, 2 minimizing device sharing and multiple students touching the board. 23, 2020. . Copyright 2020 Epson America, Inc. PowerLite 750F. 3,600 lumens.

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Epson Software Learning Robotics 104

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The student might miss classes on account of a broken laptop. The company focuses on serving three audiences: adult and online learners, first-year students and those seeking career development. Mentor Collective hopes to create 100,000 mentorships by the end of 2020. He signed a one-year contract with Mentor Collective in 2018.

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Company Laptops Training Software 114

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The good news is that corporate leaders don’t need to look far for inspiration, as some companies have already gotten started, including Microsoft’s partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council to deliver technology for education projects, or Google’s push to expand technological access for underserves communities. The result?

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EdTech Digital Divide Learning Social Media 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Photo: screenshot from Sean Willems, “Designing A Home Video Studio For Online Synchronous Teaching,” September 2020. Photo: Sean Willems, “Designing A Home Video Studio For Online Synchronous Teaching,” September 2020. You might find inspiration atop a Tennessee garage.

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Video Course Laptops iPad 132

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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Education Broadband Learning Elementary 124

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. You can find out more details of the IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB and learn about the company's other products on the IPEVO site ! Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything.

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Sony Microsoft Chromebook Laptops 95

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In 2020, teachers launched approximately 19.5 Nearpod customers will continue to receive the support, service, and innovation they have come to expect and love from the company. Nearpod works with any classroom technology, from tablets and smartphones to laptops and Chromebooks. billion real-time insights into student learning.

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Differentiated Instruction Assessment Industry Smartphone 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

AIR presented early results from its “ National Survey of Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 ” at a virtual session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar on July 22, 2020. That allowed Desmoulin-Kherat to distribute 6,000 laptops to families at home. More detailed results from the survey are expected in the fall.

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Survey Digital Divide Laptops Data 117

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Then there was the iPad.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

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. Some, troubled by inferior OPM service, have parted company with their partners and are now on their own, often having learned a thing or two.

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Course Trends EdTech Laptops 184

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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Laptops Secondary Google Company 214

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

These were delivered to FWPS on November 6, 2020. With companies like AVer donating dozens of these laptop carts, our computers will last much longer because they’ll be stored in a more effective way for our teachers and scholars to use them,” said FWPS Superintendent Dr.

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Chromebook Mobility Laptops Microsoft 59

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

and Canada for some time, and even today the company is in second place, with DTL Brightspace, a Canadian firm, close behind. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. Branded eventually as Blackboard, it was the market leader in the U.S.

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 127

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 he remembers battery life on those laptops lasting just an hour. We saw the first big leap of results in the 2015-16 year,” Marwell remembered.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 51

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

All a student needs is a laptop, headphones and a good internet connection to access a one-on-one tutoring session, even in a crowded classroom. The first showed promising results for low-income immigrant middle schoolers in Italy in the spring of 2020. The online tutoring business is indeed booming. Paying tutors might help too. “In

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Study Case Study Robotics Laptops 89

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

It’s the same Monday to Friday routine: Get up, change clothes, have breakfast, and turn on the laptops. Did you turn on your laptops? And the disparity is even greater for students of color, according to a study by McKinsey & Company published in December 2020. Each boy likes to eat something different for breakfast.

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Laptops Blackboard Study Report 125

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

These include additional teachers to enable smaller, distanced classes; more bus drivers to allow students to spread out; air filtration systems; plexiglass; hand sanitizer; and hotspots and laptops for students. million in 2020 to Providence, Rhode Island, and recently created a $10 million endowment for public schools.

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Policies System Report Laptops 125

myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Adobe Flash end of life in 2020 is soon arriving. For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. So why is this star falling at the end of 2020? Adobe announced it plans to no longer support Flash Player starting on December 31, 2020. History of Flash.

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Adobe Software Education EdTech 46

Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

In 2020, U.S. Edtech investing exploded in 2020. companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019. edtech companies that support educators and learners across preK-12, postsecondary and workforce education. edtech companies selling their services directly to consumers.

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EdTech Coursera Company Industry 201

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Lindsay’s ability to rapidly pivot to remote learning in spring 2020 was largely due to preexisting infrastructure. After unsuccessfully approaching several major internet companies, the district decided to take matters into its own hands.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 135

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. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent. Schools get creative. Published with permission.

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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 137

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). " Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. I think the latter."

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

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. The Logitech Rugged Combo 3 Touch has a sealed pry-resistant keyboard, but also a trackpad that operates just like a trackpad on a laptop.

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iPad Laptops Chromebook BYOD 405

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading. One report by Amplify Education Inc.,

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145