eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Kajeet introduced Kajeet Private Wireless, its next-gen, cloud-based, private 5G and LTE platform delivering fast, secure, and reliable broadband connectivity for students in remote areas and communities underserved by public wireless options. provided a first look at the new Samsung Education Community Platform.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 130

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. It remains a modest gesture toward addressing much bigger questions. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Questions that have been a long time coming… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. It remains a modest gesture toward addressing much bigger questions. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. I dislike fraudulent courses. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

I felt totally prepared after this course. Learn more: GetGoogleCertified.com. Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals : a suite of tools that can help you increase opportunities for critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, all while supporting the learning objectives that you have for your students.

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Google Chromebook Android Education 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Photo: Jessica Huseman for The Hechinger Report. Efforts by the national nonprofit EducationSuperHighway to publicize how much districts pay for broadband have allowed many school systems to negotiate bandwidth deals to get greater capacity for a fraction of the cost. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. For instance, online or blended learning options enable students to take specialized or advanced coursework not offered by their school.

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Personalized Learning E-rate Outcomes Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Of course, keeping up with social media isn’t easy for parents without broadband Internet at home, which includes nearly a third of households with school-aged children and incomes below $50,000, according to the Pew Research Center. Read more about Blended Learning. Tell me about that.”.

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Social Media Broadband Twitter Facebook 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” ” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. ” More via Techcrunch. .”

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In the last few years, many schools and enterprising teachers have tried to infuse coding and computational thinking into a wide range of classes, including arts and humanities courses. Middle school in South Fayette starts the transition to specific technology skill courses, such as mobile app development.

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

High school students could take college courses in Middletown with a certified adjunct professor. Three-credit courses were $1,200 each, a major discount, but only about 50 low-income students were participating. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The school overlooks plush sand-colored condos and a sprawling golf course community that has drawn wealthier families to the area. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. “I Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2017

A major unanswered question is the extent to which her larger goal of empowering parents via choice will extend to online, course-based choice, which presents very different public policy questions. Similarly, President Trump has promised $20 billion for school-based choice but nothing for course-based choice.

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Course Policies Education Broadband 76