Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2022

The accelerator enables edtech startups to move faster through benefits such as equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of edtech experts and more. Educators, students and caregivers are all making use of edtech to address the long-term impacts of the pandemic.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning or The 30 Goals Challenge or take a fully accredited online course for graduate credit ( Online Learning Best Practices , Connected Educators or TESOL Methodologies )! Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

When Howard-Suamico School District went digital, giving every student in grades 3 and up tablets or laptops, the change was immediate and dramatic. Students were excited about learning. Something else that was immediate and dramatic: the gap between students who had Internet access at home, and those who didn’t.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2015

New tablet adjusts learning to young learners’ needs. The tablet, called Epic , is meant for students from pre-K to about nine years old. It uses a special browser only allowing access to pre-selected, kid-safe web content. The LeapFrog Epic tablet is age-appropriate right out of the box, but grows with a child.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

Sanchez leads the Mobile Experiences and Emerging Technology team at Coursera, the online learning platform where students anywhere can take courses, master a career skill, get professional certificates, and earn degrees from 200 top universities and companies, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, Google and IBM.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

The challenge: how students can complete lab work without access to a science lab. It just so happened that a group of about 50 biology students were testing products from Hands-On Labs, a company that offers at-home lab kits coupled with online instruction and assessments. They discussed the technology at their disposal.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. Providing these new opportunities for educators and students supports our long-standing commitment to increasing skill building and advancing tech equity in education across the U.S.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Early exposure to technology can help children develop digital literacy skills. Around 70% of kindergartners can use educational apps on tablets or smartphones. 00:04:34:18 – 00:04:39:18 Vicki Davis Icon Bingo.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Digital-only textbooks accounted for 29 percent, while digital-and-print bundles accounted for 26 percent. It’s a coexistence. Blended is best,” he said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

During its heyday, Amplify touted its orange tablets as the tool that would transform digital learning experiences in school. Yet the company’s most impressive offering may have been its games. All three parties decided to merge their assets under one new company that adopted the Touch Press brand.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, May 22, 2018 — To keep students actively learning over the summer and to help prevent summer learning loss, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), with the help of Fuel Education® (FuelEd®), is launching its sixth annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Colleges and universities with prison education programs are increasingly using technology to deliver instruction to incarcerated individuals, even with strict limitations on internet access in correctional facilities. Several have started their own companies. But the technology is also raising serious questions about quality.

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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. 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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 2, 2012

We are seeing more and more teachers, conferences, and companies embrace QR as another way to engage students, audiences and customers. One of the most useful examples I saw this year was at a Moodle conference where in the digital conference guide was a QR next to each session. So, how did I do last year? That I believe to be true.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country. Safari Books. Vista Innovation & Design Academy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

What’s even more shocking is the percentage of children that have access to technology without the proper safeguards in place, or even a starting place for understanding how to protect themselves online and why it’s crucial. Almost half of all emails sent are spam emails just waiting to catch the unsuspecting user.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2019

Companies are creating technology-based products specifically for the classroom, and many schools and institutions are requiring students to use tablets or computers for their assignments. In recent years, the way we communicate, order food, exchange money, and more has all been reimagined to include technological advances.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Edtech refers to digital technology like operative devices and online software, which has been designed to aid educational learning and teaching. Even other physical objects like whiteboards, digital boards, tablets, digital pens, and translation devices are considered to be part of the Edtech ecosystem. .

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

. “Scholastic brings significant experience in the field of early learning, first publishing a successful PreK curriculum 25 years ago, in addition to more than 100 years of bringing engaging literacy materials to students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 16, 2020

This will give the head of the educational institution access to all the data needed to run a school efficiently. However, it is possible to use the digital universe to encourage the habit of reading. Rodriguez, educator at Write My X and Britstudent. Software and Applications. Lack of interest in reading is a recurring problem.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Educators Weigh iPad’s Dominance of the Tablet Market.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. Tagged on: August 18, 2017 Is classroom technology good for learning or wasting time?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Technology solutions can provide the personalized learning, lower costs , and encouragement needed at community colleges where increased fees and lack of structured-support can have a negative effect on the nontraditional student population. Embracing Innovative Digital Tools: Johnson County Community College.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

The e-books will be readable on e-readers, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices. “This partnership is illustrative of Amazon Education’s overall commitment to making connected classrooms a reality by helping students and educators with the transition to digital learning,” Amazon said in a statement.

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 17, 2018

When students work in several different apps that are based on blockly they are able to transfer lessons learned in one programming environment into another. The fluid use of apps also helps students practice learning. There are many tablet-based programming apps available and there seems to be more every day for both iOS and Android.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Featuring content from its sister company Corinth, Lifeliqe offers K-12 educators more than 1,000 interactive, lifelike 3D models accessible on tablets, PCs or interactive whiteboards—and now in VR. Additionally, Lifeliqe integrates with Keynote and Powerpoint.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Foundation grant will fund educational computer tablets for 1,500 low-income families. The grant will fund a pilot program providing 1,500 tablet computers, preloaded with educational content, to families in Georgia who are enrolling in Cox Communications’ Connect2Compete discounted internet service program. The James M.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

The new ACT Online Prep program is designed to help increase college access, opportunity and success for students. BenchPrep, a digital learning platform company, will work with ACT to leverage technology to bring personalized, web- and mobile-based ACT test prep to all ACT test takers.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But if your district doesn’t have funds burning a hole in its pocket, maybe instead you can provide access to an app for teachers to connect with STEM and robotics initiatives in the classroom. The cornerstone of the effort was to put a tablet computer equipped with a digital curriculum in the hands of every student.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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My Paperless Classroom

MARCH 17, 2018

When students work in several different apps that are based on blockly they are able to transfer lessons learned in one programming environment into another. The fluid use of apps also helps students practice learning. There are many tablet-based programming apps available and there seems to be more every day for both iOS and Android.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 22, 2020

Here are a few tools that have become increasingly more popular for educators in the digital age. GroupMe works by downloading the app or accessing the site from the web. Messages can be sent on the go using a laptop, mobile app or tablet as well, which allows for several ways to connect with others. Tool #1: GroupMe.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

CUE , a nonprofit professional development organization for education technology, chose Touchjet , the first company to create a touch projector with a standalone Android operating system and a recent finalist of the 2016 Edison Awards for innovation, to help bring interactive technology to classrooms around the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2015

Company also gives educators first public demos of the touch-enabled MimioProjector 280T. Our newest version of the MimioMobile application makes real-time collaborative learning and ongoing formative assessment easier than ever to implement,” said Christopher Leonardo, Director of Research and Development at Mimio.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The study examined how digital media contributes to learning in the home, looking specifically at children’s engagement with PEG + CAT, a multimedia animated PBS KIDS series produced by The Fred Rogers Company. ” The study was funded by ED through a Ready To Learn grant to CPB and PBS.

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