EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“However, we know from our conversations with school administrators that an acute pain point yet to be solved is an effective network filtering solution that offers students safe internet access from their own devices.” . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how web filters keep K—12 students safe. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 27, 2022

First, I’m reading an incredible book that came out during the Pandemic The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Businesses Industries and Our Lives by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. Must-Read Tech Book. Also on TikTok so look for the ISTELive Hashtag wherever you share.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

On the cusp of this burgeoning industry is cloud-based gaming, which TechCrunch calls the “new frontier.” The same goes for Chromebooks. You have access to a limited library of games.”. Today, according to gaming analytics firm Newzoo , the number of gamers has increased to 2 billion worldwide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2023

The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech. And it's common in other industries with sensitive information like financial services, King adds.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. While the iPad cost anywhere from $300 – $400, Chromebooks were sold from $199.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

At Kajeet, we believe internet access is a basic human right and are fully committed to efforts aimed at closing the digital divide,” said Daniel J. and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. Neal, chairman, CEO and founder of Kajeet.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

Our schools provide internet access and offer year-round career and technology classes ,” Madden says. “We FUSD’s students have access to 65,000 Windows-based devices , mostly HP laptops and desktops. The ‘have-not’ students operate at a ­disadvantage, both in access and technology training.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. That doesn’t mean every student has access to a device all the time. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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My Island View

MAY 2, 2023

My life has always been complicated by the fact that my wife, Joyce, has always been involved in the commercial side of education working for some leading industry giants, as well as smaller companies, and now as an industry consultant for emerging and growing companies in the education space. There are too few companies that do that.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

Plus, the students who struggled with attention didn't miss out on any information since they could access the content through the voice-over, the visuals in the video, and the text in the captions. Users should be able to access the content in multiple ways and without distraction. I used closed-captioning with BrainPop Jr.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. This meant that devices were somewhat affordable and that, potentially, every student could have access to one. Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

Even if you don’t like Google, Jeremy Lupoli told a crowded room surrounded by products from the tech giant, you’ll still have to work with it to get ahead in the education technology industry. The panel came the same day Google announced a Chromebook App Hub for developers to showcase educator-focused apps and classroom activities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I rambled on about Chromebooks and more kids having internet access, about school bus delays and the potential of edtech, but that’s not what she’s looking for. Likely, we need an industry reckoning. I didn’t have a good answer. We need reliable infrastructure that transports and feeds children consistently and safely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But today, Jesse, we really want to talk about what teachers have accessible for free honestly, a lot of teachers are losing access to a lot of different tools that they may have had available in the last few years. We hear all the time about schools losing access to these tools. Vicki Davis Yeah. I can see we're BYOD.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2020

What’s more is that access to Cybersecurity education is uneven and seemingly dependent upon geographic location and socio-economic status. The strategic partnerships Experience is building with ESC-20 and other districts across the country will ensure the Cybersecurity career pathway is accessible for students from all backgrounds.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

Adjustable and configurable to meet the needs of today’s changing and uncertain student device requirements, the X16 offers a unique and flexible solution to manage student Chromebooks, laptops, tablets, or phones with up to a 15” screen. Mountable, the X16 can be secured to a wall, or placed on a table for easy access to devices.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book. More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. The World Wide Web has transformed how we access, consume, create, and share information.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

So, I was motivated to take the industry and peer knowledge and then bring it into my classroom. And I get to bring that industry information to my students and help them make those real-world connections. I was able to get access to many lessons on artificial intelligence and implement those lessons in the mini-unit as well.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button. With itopia Labs, educators can provide anytime, anywhere, any device access to software applications that students commonly use for Career Technical Education (CTE) and various certification programs.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

“We are excited to bring our secure, reliable and controlled wireless connectivity solutions to the European market to enable equitable internet access, especially for students. The global pandemic is exposing massive disparities in reliable internet access. In the U.K., In the U.K., Kajeet holds 38 U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With the rise of COVID-19, this shift crossed a crucial threshold and created a demand for the edtech industry to provide solutions that don’t supplement or replace the teacher, but instead, pave the way for a new way to teach and learn. Nearpod works with any classroom technology, from tablets and smartphones to laptops and Chromebooks.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 22, 2017

By using the said device, a student can ask for help and receive targeted feedback and support from one teacher or another, access the internet and other learning materials and resources when they most need them, and basically develop skills that a face-to-face learning environment can’t teach. Take your time and do your research.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Despite the influx of capital, employers, schools and policymakers are only just beginning to harness the sector’s advancements in the delivery, accessibility and effectiveness of education technology. Edtech providers are as vulnerable as their peers in other industries. Our schools are facing a mental health crisis.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 4, 2015

Thinking about how to make Hour of Code accessible to my music teacher I was playing around with Trinket.io and their Music trinket. When we can take something like music and use programming to interact with it we can teach programming basics at the same time as sequence, rhythm and even some basic music theory.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Todd Brekhus’ industry experience dates as far back as the early 2000s at PLATO, and later at myON. Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We now have access to capital and we’ll look at people who’ve made truly outstanding content,” says Waldron. The educational games industry is a challenging, niche market where independent developers don’t last long. By one estimate, Google Chromebooks accounted for 58 percent of all device sales to U.S. K-12 schools last year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Dallas County Promise is unique in that our counselors are able to surface aggregated, real-time student data including SAT and ACT scores, class grades, participation in AP courses, work towards industry certifications and armed forces enlistment, all in one dashboard. None of that would be possible without strong data interoperability.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

For those that track this industry closely, the highlighted trends will not come as a surprise. Founders are finding incredibly creative ideas to make learning more accessible, engaging and inspiring. Last year alone 20 million Chromebooks were used by teachers and students weekly.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Here are some of the most recent winners: School District 51 (CO) students scored 9,000 new Chromebooks for the next school year. The Chromebooks and charging carts were purchased with $3.18 A four-year replacement cycle will be set up for Guilderland’s Chromebooks. What major businesses and industries are in the region?

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 13, 2018

Participants were also pleasantly surprised to learn that when it comes to cost, Chromebooks are no longer the clear winner. She said she is working to address increasing bandwidth in schools and she is also working to update what is allowable when upgrading tech in school with Capital funds to include tablets and Chromebooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The biggest reason, I think, it’s the tool to go to, is the ability for it to be in the cloud and accessible to a large number of students and to bring an unparalleled educational experience to them that you can’t re-create in the classroom. All of a sudden, all you need is that access to get into the world, and then the sky’s the limit.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

A major generational clash is underway, says a foremost expert, and it’s affecting all industries, including education. And more schools are incorporating mobile tablets and smartphones into their curriculum [read about the staggering growth of Chromebook implementation here ]. So what does that mean for educators?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last September, the company tapped Good Harbor Partners, a Boston firm that advises on business transactions in the education technology industry, to explore strategic and financial opportunities for the company. The company initially developed LightSail for iPads before adding compatibility with Chromebooks and Android devices.)

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 11, 2016

They use the MakerSpace to solve real life problems with access to tools and materials. On the first day of March Maker Madness, I witnessed the makeover of a traditional industrial shop class into a 21st Century MakerSpace. Big Idea #1 – Mix 21st Century and 20th Century Tools.

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