EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Educational technology is on a fast path of continuous change, but leaders’ mindsets don’t always follow. One key shift is that educational technology leaders need to adopt a more strategic focus instead of a break/fix approach. Hence, CoSN2020 will break through some of our own mindsets. Children experience this too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Technology is enabling learning like never before, with millions of students attending school remotely for some or all of their regular instruction this fall. With this skyrocketing growth in technology use, however, comes greater concerns around student privacy. Which technologies are collecting student data?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

For CLX, that meant creating a city-wide catalogue of the landscape of out-of-school-time (OST) programs offering learning experiences with digital media tools and technology (DMTT) citywide. The good news is that you don’t need a bunch of fancy tools to start surveying your OST learning ecosystem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

The program will leverage CoSN’s expertise and network of district leaders to help rural districts with the unique challenges and opportunities that they face with acquiring and implementing technology. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders. About CoSN.

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Gaggle Speaks

MAY 2, 2017

Every year, the Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning asks K-12 students, parents and educators about the role of technology for learning in and out of school. This year, we teamed up with Project Tomorrow to learn more about student online safety. on Tuesday, May 9, at 2 p.m.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Here are some highlights from this discussion: NEVA MOGA INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISOR AT MILWAUKEE (WI) PUBLIC SCHOOLS We build our SEL around culture and climate that we monitor through surveys. Our state requires some type of student voice survey be given to students each year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Coronavirus gave many just days. on April 10, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

And depending on their background and experience, not everyone is supportive of tech-infused learning. Next, once the mission is clear, leaders should work with the tech team and teachers to ensure that the technology will meet those goals. In fact, every message about the technology should be focused on the students and their needs.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL).

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

All conversations start with why: Get all constituents involved from the beginning—even students and teachers—as to how the schools might adopt digital learning. Administrators need to have a detailed home survey for every student to understand how to serve them. Get them all to agree to the why before moving on to the what.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

They address the four critical areas that school leaders must address as outlined in the Leadership for Digital Learning Initiative —technological platforms, human platforms, program management, and communications with all internal and external stakeholders. About the Host.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. The Role of Technology During COVID. Leveraging technology to support all student learners is essential.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Logan is part of a generation of “digital natives” who were raised on screens. Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The OPM industry started in earnest about 15 years ago, as more public and nonprofit colleges were looking to ramp up their online programming, and educational technology companies saw a business opportunity in helping them. Photo: Brian Harkin/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Teachers are trying to manage the education of hundreds of children, within a setup that lacks internet access and technology access,” said Honani, a member of the school’s parent advisory committee. “If Nearly 70 percent of public schools serving Native students were conducting digital learning, according to the survey.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via MIT Technology Review : “ DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ NYC Data Science Academy Launches Online Bootcamp.” million total.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian. This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Dr. Schell, Ed.D.,

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2020

“There’s always an equity issue in the United States, even in non-Covid times,” said Elizabeth Bartholet, professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty director of Harvard’s Child Advocacy Program. But now, when kids are at home, privileged parents are going to be able to hire tutors and teachers. It stretched me thin.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. students without home internet access, many of whom are now expected to use digital learning every day to access class materials and complete homework assignments. The same holds for U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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