Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

In 2010, Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia was caught— and successfully sued when it was discovered that school officials were taking photos of a student through a school-issued laptop. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In most cases, schools are turning to third parties for help building out their core and non-core content right now, said Allison Powell, VP for new learning models at iNACOL , the nonprofit blended learning advocacy group. Powell points to Facebook’s recent move into the K-12 space as an example.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The space offers, for example, a state-of-the-art sound studio where teens can record their music, workshops on graphic design, and laptops and video equipment available for checkout in addition to the usual books and music. The idea is to provide mentors to teens and help them become not just consumers of media, but creators as well.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, both the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and Lumen Learning use OER this way. These more sophisticated prompts might be able to direct a large language model to act as a highly skilled tutor in an extended teaching interaction with a student, for example. 2016; Koedinger, et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In Part II of this series, participants will examine powerful examples and methods for applying global education in learning environments. Join Neverware and The Learning Revolution to learn how CloudReady does exactly that on up to 8 year old laptops or desktops, extending their life along with making them run faster to help preserve budget.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. For other students, virtualization has its “pluses and minuses,” she said. “It It just depends.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

For example: “Calling child protective services would not be a severe threat to Black students if racial disparities within the institution itself were less pronounced.”. Research on doubled-up students shows there’s good reason to provide them with help: They earned lower grades, for example, and were less likely to graduate on time.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

To counteract these realities, Román-Lagunas said her staff members have been analyzing Latinx students’ data — majors, feeder high schools and retention rates, for example — to see where they can make a difference. Around campus, there are some signs of the university’s outreach to Latinx. Debra Santiago, CEO, Excelencia in Education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. The things you actually care about in smartphones or search engines or laptops happen far above the level of the kernel. But most people want a laptop or a phone with an operating system that “just works.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. They didn’t go out on the weekend. It’s a big, big issue.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

One recent spring afternoon, about a dozen Northern Cass students working on laptops made themselves comfortable in a large classroom with mobile furniture, beanbag pillows and a plush blue couch. Last year, for example, the elementary teachers stopped being generalists and started to specialize.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Other than a few murmured conversations and the clicking of keyboards, the only sound was mellow acoustic guitar music played on their teacher’s laptop. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. The school director, Kevin Bock, stood by the door. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

He’s had to buy personal protective equipment for staff and laptops for around 28,000 teenagers. That sounds like a lot of money, but if you think about buying a laptop for nearly 30,000 teenagers … that, in and of itself, is your entire stimulus money,” he said. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 18, 2021

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. Their zip codes, for example, still determine the type of educational support they receive. No matter what I was working on, close the laptop.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

million laptops to all public primary schools. “Education is going to be a powerful example of the potential of VR,” he said. iNACOL has released a report on advocacy for competency-based education. Now it’s giving away flash drives for positive online reviews. Education in the Courts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2017

SAN DIEGO — In the main room of a onetime fraternity house at the edge of San Diego State University, a small group of students labors quietly, laser-focused, over textbooks and laptops. This is the Veterans House, its door propped open by a spent artillery shell. Things do not appear to be improving.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Many state legislative committees don’t have dedicated education staffers — take, for example, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Delaware and New Hampshire. Other education committees list only men in these positions on their websites (for example, Tennessee ). Related: Just 3% of scientists and engineers are Black or Latina women.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. That’s one way it’s trying to increase the number of transfer students, for example — especially from its community colleges — accepted by both public and private universities.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization. Pi-top , the maker of a Raspberry Pi-compatible laptop, has raised $16 million from Hambro Perks and Committed Capital.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Should you ban laptops ? So what happens when, for example, we share the research that demonstrates that vouchers do not improve student achievement ? That is, accepting science is not necessarily a function of education or scientific knowledge – parents who are anti-vaccine are often affluent and highly-educated, for example.

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