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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Been quoted in an article on ransomware in K-12 education. Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? Instead, these schools and nonprofits lease their licenses to commercial internet providers for cash (and free accounts) in secret deals.

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Another Cause of Inequality: Slow Internet in Schools

Educator Innovator

And fourth graders collaborate on an annual ecosystem project using iPads, taking pictures and annotating their work as they go. While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. In rural areas where there is no broadband access, that isn’t the case.”.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. They have to learn early.”. One in 5 residents lives below the poverty level, many in homes without high-speed internet service.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 2, 2017 School IT Leaders Share Strategies on Defending Against DDoS Attacks | EdTech Magazine → This article claims students are primarily responsible for denial of service attacks on schools. Wish there were publicly available data to support this claim. Tagged on: March 28, 2017 Got tech problems?

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 13 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 2, 2017 School IT Leaders Share Strategies on Defending Against DDoS Attacks | EdTech Magazine → This article claims students are primarily responsible for denial of service attacks on schools. Wish there were publicly available data to support this claim. Tagged on: March 28, 2017 Got tech problems?

EdTech 150