Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

On the heels of one another, two tech titans recently announced higher-education partnerships that leverage transcription technology to make educational materials more accessible to a broader swath of learners. Students will be able to download the transcripts and reference them later. NTID is one of RIT’s nine schools.

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Microsoft Accessibility E-rate Company 105

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

The changes are not just incremental; they are foundational, reshaping the very nature of how we teach and learn. This facet of modern education transcends the traditional use of textbooks and blackboards, weaving digital tools seamlessly into the learning process (NETP, 2017)). And guess what?

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Classroom Khan Academy E-rate Internet Safety 120

Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Read on to learn what toxic stress is and how it can impact a student’s physical and mental well-being. 6] Students who are characterized as “difficult” or “bad-mannered” may be overwhelmed with toxic stress and unable to access the support they need because of the way others view them. What Is Toxic Stress, Anyway?

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Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Vicki: Today we’re talking with my friend Tony Vincent @tonyvincent from Learning in Hand about iPad Magic. You can turn that on in the Settings,in the Accessibility Settings. You also can hold down “e” or “n” to get accented characters. Tony: Well, you know those apps that keep asking you to rate them? It worked OK.

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iPad E-rate iPhone Company 258

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Copyleaks, an artificial intelligence platform that detects plagiarism, today announced a partnership today with Canvas, the learning management platform from Instructure, that allows educational institutions to seamlessly enable advanced plagiarism detection software directly within a Canvas account. About Copyleaks.

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LMS E-rate Software Learning 101

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? Personally, I don’t believe people took the equity and access gap as seriously as they should have in the past because it wasn’t smacking them in the face.”.

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Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 250

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 2, 2016

After years of questioning the accessibility of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader , the National Federation of the Blind today announced that it will work with the online retailer to improve reading experiences for blind, low-vision, and deaf-blind students. Students also would be able to rate content. At the time, Mark A.

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Accessibility E-rate Assistive Technology iPad 40

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

This year’s E-rate cycle may be over, but in order to be well prepared for the next one, now is the time to start the connectivity conversation with your school district. million K-12 students who lack access to high-speed classroom internet, leaving them unprepared or underprepared for the world’s digital expectations.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Accessibility 77

eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new edtech before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. This holds true for any school district, but in rural communities, where general access to technology is often limited, it is especially important.

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EdTech E-rate Education Data 52

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

After reflecting, I realized I had the same frustrations as my students When I reconvened with my teaching group, we realized that we were teaching the unit the same way we had been taught in school, perpetuating a narrative that made our students feel anxious and hopeless as they learned the curriculum.

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E-rate Data Exercises System 148

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Dunlosky et al.

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The Urban Institute researchers calculated graduation rates by race and ethnicity in Virginia and Connecticut and found that white and Asian students graduate at higher rates than black and Latino students at most colleges. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Proof Points.

E-rate 96

E-rate Data Policies Report 96

Neo LMS

JULY 4, 2017

Learning management systems are software products that are designed to make compartmentalising, reinforcing, supporting and delivering online classes easy, and time efficient. One is a Learning Management System (LMS) and the other Learning Content Management System (LCMS). Learn more about SCORM here. Authoring tools.

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Course LMS E-rate System 208

Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Graphics like this angle reference graphic.

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IAD Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The term adaptive e-Learning refers to a set of techniques oriented to offer online students a personal and unique experience, with the final goal of maximizing their performance. Adaptive e-Learning is based on the principle that every student is unique and has a different background, educational needs, learning style, etc.

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E-rate Learning System Training 42

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

Lightspeed Learning Lab – Edtech Best Practices for a Smooth Return to School You’re working tirelessly to ensure a smooth transition back-to-school and your edtech ecosystem plays a big role. It helps us understand What the most interesting and important topics for you are as well as the next steps to help you learn more.

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EdTech Survey Learning Data 52

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. As an encyclopedia, it is a tertiary source.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Having high-speed access in school networks is now a necessity in every child’s education.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 64

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

With the ISTE Seal of Alignment, this program is approved by many districts as a flexible, personalized way for teachers to learn and grow. Click Here to Learn More About Edge U Badges Sponsor This week's guest Danielle Johnson, executive director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation. So we formed an interstate group.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 364

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Having high-speed access in school networks is now a necessity in every child’s education.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Tools 63

Education Superhighway

JULY 17, 2019

Having a reliable network that supports your learning goals must be balanced with the cost to build and maintain that network. Although the E-rate program provides substantial financial support, there is sometimes still a “gap” in funding that cannot be covered using the district’s existing budget.

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Broadband E-rate Tools Company 70

IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). However, when you consider that the smartphone may be the main source of Internet access, it begins to make more sense.

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Smartphone Learning Mobility Social Media 28

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

per month for one access to one digital textbook or $14.99 per month to access all of the more than 1,500 titles on the company’s platform, with each plan requiring a four-month minimum. Users also get access to audiobook versions of their texts?available That’s why the all-access model is so significant?it

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Accessibility Pearson Secondary E-rate 204

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Within inclusion settings, all students are placed in the same room to learn alongside each other, as opposed to removing students with disabilities to a separate space. 4 Tips for using accessibility features to promote inclusion. The following tips provide strategies for using technology to create inclusive learning environments.

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Accessibility Assistive Technology E-rate BYOD 525

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq. So they full access, they get the full toolbar when they’re in their Google account.

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Google Twitter Data Tools 291

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. Independent learning about Gsuite.

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Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 176

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. She is a regular contributor to www.therobbreviewblog.com and has a series of podcasts with Evan Robb that you can access on [link]. When we put all those things together and we watch children every day, we learn about them.

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Differentiated Instruction Elementary Groups How To 339

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students. Stay tuned at the end of the show to learn more about these valuable lessons. Can AI Enhance Student Learning?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning in 2015. If you’re interested in the possibility of video games for learning–that is, teaching and learning with video games to master both academic and non-academic content–than the following collection may be of interest to you. 50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning.

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Video E-rate Learning Mobility 40

EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The most common goals for any project are: Attract more customers: these strategies should focus on increasing conversion rates and getting users to take a specific action (download an app, buy a product, subscribe to your newsletter, etc.). You can click here to learn more about how to conduct your own market research. Ease of use.

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Strategy Social Media E-rate Meeting 52

eSpark

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new technology before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. This holds true for any school district, but in rural communities, where general access to technology is often limited, it is especially important.

EdTech 40

EdTech Education E-rate iPad 40

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. I’m Amanda Center.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. He references the plight of adjuncts, including Doonesbury’s take. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

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E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 81

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

If those conversations do not happen in our schools, we miss important opportunities to teach respectful discourse, encourage social/emotional learning and bridge gaps of understanding. Ironically, while we have access to more information than ever before, we may see fewer perspectives in our search results. New source bias ratings.

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E-rate Common Core Strategy Survey 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73