eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Future of School (FoS) and the Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC), two national organizations leading the way toward effective district transformation, today announced the Resilient Schools Project (RSP). Learn more at [link]. About The Digital Learning Collaborative. and broadcasting?the

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

As a digital learning team, we were assigned the responsibility of exploring the full spectrum of AI in education. What training can we provide to empower our educators to integrate AI ethically into their teaching practices? Minds & Machines 30 , 99–120 (2020). AI Ethics 2 , 431–440 (2022). link] Hagendorff, T.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A State-wide Approach When school closures began in spring 2020, Carey Wright, state superintendent of education for Mississippi, seized the opportunity to address the digital divide in the state. To that end, every district in the state was encouraged to refresh their laptops.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Lumio sponsored this episode. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Instructure announced it has reached an agreement to sell Bridge to Learning Technologies Group, a London, U.K.-based based provider of digital learning and talent development tools for businesses and employees. Corporate learning is also a large and fragmented market, with many more competing providers than in higher education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Over the course of 2020, there has been plenty of discussion about what will and won’t return to “normal” once we’ve fought COVID-19 into submission. And according to a survey by Strada Education Network , over a third of Americans say they will need training or education to find new jobs. Many jobs aren’t coming back.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our district was able to pivot quickly to remote learning because of the knowledge and systems put in place within our five-year partnership with (Verizon Innovative Learning). “Our And it was transformational.”.

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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. No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But there is a disconnect between the skills that students are being taught and those that employers require, and we face the stark prospect that one-third of jobs in 2020 will require skills that aren’t common today. And Google recently announced plans to donate $1 billion to nonprofits explicitly to train tech workers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

While COVID-19 has forced educators to rapidly embrace digital resources, I have taken the opportunity to lean deeply into “green instruction” and attempt to go completely paperless. Army Airborne and Special Operations Museum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private later this year. In 2020, 248 SPACs raised more than $83 billion —more than four times the companies, and six times the funding, over the previous year. Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. public market.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

When schools shuttered in the spring of 2020, more than 1 billion students worldwide shifted to online instruction in less than one month. Educators struggled to meet students' needs without proper technology tools, training and infrastructure, and edtech innovators capitalized, introducing much-needed solutions. It’s been a wild ride.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2018

The report notes that by 2020 rapid technological change will make more than a third of the skills considered important in today’s workforce obsolete. The initiative, called Verizon Innovative Learning, gives a tablet with data plan to every student and teacher in under-resourced middle schools. But this year we got two accepted!”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Providing technology training for parents to increase engagement with schools, including understanding how to help their students use technology in learning. Impacting family literacy, with a focus on addressing the digital divide through digital literacy and ready access. Citations. [1] ” [link].

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. But educators still require support, and with savings in materials and time, school leaders need to make an investment in teacher training.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Employee training programs are usually among the first on the chopping block as companies tighten their belts during a typical economic downturn. But you cannot hire away to solve what is fundamentally a training problem.” Businesses are eliminating some roles, yet are desperate to hire for others.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2021

The March 2020 shift from face-to-face classes to what many call “Zoom University” was triage for faculty and administrators accustomed to being in the same room as their students. To get a better understanding of what has happened in online classrooms since March 2020, Acosta said, the report’s authors spoke to more than 50 students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Relying on this network of coaches and their built-in relationships with schools across the state, her team quickly pivoted during the pandemic to provide strategies, training and mentoring—initiating a ripple effect of best practices for teachers and successful outcomes for students. Adam Phyall 6.

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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. Have they used the tools before, and if not, have they received training? Making the most of time Immediacy is a limited resource (Stanford, 2020).

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

million in new funds from the Mayor’s Office in Fiscal Year 2020 to ensure a 3:1 device ratio in all grades and a 1:1 ratio for students in grades 3-12 over the next three years. ELI is a comprehensive three-year plan to close the digital divide and empower every learner through investment in technology? It includes $4.6

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

train future educators to teach online, experts say. But if teacher training programs hadn’t considered online education much before the pandemic, their leaders are taking new interest in the field now. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative.

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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. Because this second half of the day was led by our Instructional Coaches, it gave the Digital Learning department two key advantages that were not there before.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 29, 2020

FREE Webinar: G Suite for School Leaders: Leading the New Normal with a Framework for Meaningful Digital Learning. G Suite Training for Schools. 10 Ways Google Certification Can Support Remote Learning. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Leading Through Crisis and Beyond for Teachers and Educational Leaders.

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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. Because this second half of the day was led by our Instructional Coaches, it gave the Digital Learning department two key advantages that were not there before. In the Beginning ….

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Teachers are stepping up and doing things they’ve never done before, often without any training. Teachers are stepping up and doing things they’ve never done before, often without any training. For many educators, the tech training they’ve been putting off has suddenly become a must-have skill. So what’s next?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

As the start of the 2020-21 school year approaches, states and school districts are wrestling with decisions about when, how and whether school will take place inside brick-and-mortar classrooms. No matter the Day One plans in your local area this fall, every school district must be ready for partially or fully remote school days.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 19, 2020

Remote learning has forced educators across the globe to learn on the fly and use digital tools in new ways, often tools they’ve never even used before. Fast forward to the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. We were not prepared, nor did we receive much training in preparation for school closures. This is survival mode.

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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. hold an associate degree or higher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular among colleges—is officially under private equity ownership. That information might have scared stockholders months ago. But it’s OK by Instructure and its new owner, Thoma Bravo.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Osmo’s new curriculum-inspired Math Wizard series is such an option–it allows kids 6-8 years to experience math through fun, hands-on, narrative- and adventure-driven games, where kids actually learn math, by touching, manipulating, and experimenting how it is used everyday. 1, 2020, are Magical Workshop and Secrets of the Dragons.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The hockey-stick graph below, prepared by Holon IQ, an edtech market research firm, represents the present surge in OPM partnerships—slow in the last decade, followed by a steep climb during the pandemic in 2020, and with a big bump in the first quarter this year. OPMs are especially seductive because they help finance programs up front.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS IMPROVE READING OUTCOMES IN DES MOINES (IA) PUBLIC SCHOOLS To support the district’s mission to improve student literacy proficiency, the district trained AmeriCorps members to deliver the offline instruction provided by Lexia Reading Core5. Google Classroom —Digital learning management system using Google apps ?

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