Remove Blended Learning Remove Broadband Remove Digital Learning Remove Training
article thumbnail

Laying the Foundation for Distance Learning Success

Digital Promise

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. We had the knowledge, skills, and teacher training. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Our teachers had already participated in professional development on how to incorporate the blended learning model into their classrooms.

Broadband 159
article thumbnail

Bringing Tech to the Tundra: Educators Are Bridging the Technology Gap in Alaska

Edsurge

After conducting a survey in 2015, district leaders found that while a surprising number of students have access to broadband, the biggest obstacle to technological access rural students face is the lack of devices. One unique aspect of Mat-Su’s approach to digital learning is that edtech is housed under the office of instruction.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Without home access to broadband Internet, students don’t have a chance at an equitable education and have virtually no chance to compete for the best jobs and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is pervasive in the Washington inner city.

article thumbnail

35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

To help develop this workforce, Intelitek, a worldwide CTE leader, has released SmartCIM 4.0 , a modular training environment featuring industrial working components for computer-integrated manufacturing education.

EdTech 130
article thumbnail

Before going one-to-one, this district is helping every kid get home wi-fi

eSchool News

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. Intent on bridging that gap, Little Falls CSD is working with Albany, N.Y.-based

E-rate 40
article thumbnail

16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Creators of Blended Learning Universe (www.blendedlearning.org), the organization provides a directory of innovative schools and a myriad of models and case studies to support district transformation. Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work. Organization: EveryoneOn.

article thumbnail

Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet.