edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Gentz reports that there has been confusion about deadlines, many of which are federal but some of which are state imposed. There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support. Staying Organized and Healthy.

EdTech 95

EdTech Guidelines Policies Secondary 95

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Effective Advocacy.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Thursday, April 30th at 3pm Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , The technology landscape changes rapidly, and these changes have economic, social, and ethical significance for individuals, organizations, and the entire world. Library 2.015 Spring Summit: This Week! Register for free at [link].

Education 28

Education Libraries Game-Based Learning Conference 28

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week I enjoyed the great variety of edCamp Global sessions across a variety of platforms–Periscope, Twitter chats, and Google+ Hangouts. The session got me wondering why so few of us seem to be gathering podcasts as resources for teachers and parents and our libraries. We need to know how we can better serve you. Brains On

Edcamps 40

Edcamps Advocacy Exercises Survey 40

edWeb.net

MAY 9, 2023

Sponsored by ClassLink Through the Driving K-12 Innovation series, CoSN continues to share high-quality trend reports supporting emerging technology in K-12 education to transform learning. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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Technology Broadband Education BYOD 78

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The Center for Public Education found that while over 90% of teachers reported that they engaged in some type of professional development during the year, most found it to be completely ineffective.”. The CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation report identified “technology vs. the pedagogy gap” as a hurdle to innovation in schools.

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Professional Learning Technology Learning Lenovo 98

edWeb.net

JANUARY 26, 2023

Step 4: Conduct regular accessibility audits What gets measured is more likely to get attention, so access to assistive technology should become a part of district monitoring reports. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Technology 71

Technology Assistive Technology UDL Guidelines 71

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In addition, even if the staff member (or student) isn’t quite sure what’s going on, they should know where and how to report a potential issue. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

BYOD 75

BYOD Advocacy Assistive Technology System 75

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. These days we do a lot of workshops and special projects around freedom of information and privacy issues and advocacy work because that act was passed back in 1992. So some updates are in order.

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Data Learning Advocacy System 154

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. Credit: Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Reporting contributed by Neal Morton. School buses.

Accessibility 144

Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 144

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

And as the leaders worked on equity, they would not only report back to the board but continue to involve other stakeholders in the process. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. In both districts, equity and helping students develop 21st century skills emerged as a core mission.

Advocacy 84

Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy 84

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 5, 2016

It’s just the beginning of School Library Month. AASL has been doing some seriously creative thinking about how we might use the month of April to celebrate the 2016 theme: the essential role that strong school library programs play in transforming learning. Central TV on a Dime: Creating a Library TV Studio. Tweet it out!

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Facebook Social Media 40

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. As defined by the CoSN report, accelerators are megatrends that drive change.

Learning 78

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 78

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The top cybersecurity threats to schools outlined in the CoSN Cybersecurity Report are Phishing, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Data Breach, Ransomware, and IoT (Internet of Things) Attacks. In 2007, he was the first educational leader to bring Google for Education into a K-12 school setting. The Threats.

Strategy 84

Strategy System Data BYOD 84

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a CoSN report , more than half of school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are in rural areas. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Broadband 97

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The promotion allows teachers and schools to test out the Bloomz Premium subscription, which offers exclusive tools to communicate and coordinate with their parent community, such as unlimited storage for teachers and administrators, engagement reports, premium calendar, and more. CASIO CLASSPAD.NET ( classpad.net ) Casio’s ClassPad.

Tools 57

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 57

edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

They need to work closely with the teachers to better understand how they are using the assessments and how they can create concrete, actionable reports that the teachers can turn around and use. Since assessment reports will change what’s happening in the classroom, they need to work well for the teachers.

Online Assessments 52

Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 52

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To try to answer this question, I did a quick count of the titles listed in the Open Textbook Library , which is the biggest referatory of “whole course OER” that I’m aware of. The Linux Foundation issues an annual report about activities related to kernel development. The data in the Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

EDSBY ( edsby.com ) Edsby has introduced new ways to capture and report on evidence of student learning. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome. This release will also now include support for Google Drive. Incorporating end user feedback, the 10.0

Blackboard 51

Blackboard Epson Pearson STEM 51

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” People certainly locate and learn from a wide range of resources in a wide range of informal settings in public libraries and online, but that’s not what I would call “adoption.”

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Anti-Racist Resources : This comprehensive, crowd-sourced Google doc (created in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally) is a must-bookmark resource for any educator committed to combating bias and bigotry in their classroom and community.

Resources 98

Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

And in one report, the man doing the review noted that the teacher remuneration was fair because the male teacher was earning $27 a session, where the female teacher was earning $13. ” It’s a terrible message to send to children–that once you become a teacher, you lose your right for self-advocacy.

How To 70

How To System Classroom Twitter 70

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

Libraries 98

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

The district took strategic steps to achieve both, including: Engaging a technology standards coordinator to get devices into students’ hands and analyze usage reports to determine whether learners use the devices to their benefit. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

Accessibility 80

Accessibility LMS Chromebook Digital Divide 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

” asks The Hechinger Report , with the hellish-scenario game we get to play for the next four years. ” The Autistic Self Advocacy Network issued a statement on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as US Attorney General. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “In a report released on Wednesday, the U.S.

Education 40

Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. 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. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life.” Department of Education on Monday distributed proposals for rewriting the gainful-employment rule , which the Trump administration halted last summer,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via NPR : “In D.C. , Well, well, well.

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. When questioned by reporters from The New York Times and elsewhere, Trump has repeated his accusation that these journalists constitute “fake news.” ” Their reporting should not be trusted.

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. This reporting treats “ed-tech” as a product built in and by Silicon Valley, not as something built in and by public institutions around the world.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But the struggling sector’s political giving is down since peaking in 2012,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Testing, Testing… Via the Hechinger Report : “On a classroom-based test for new teachers , black teachers score lower.” ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40