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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Blended Learning is the combination of face to face and online instruction. As broadband service become increasingly common there is no reason for physical media such as DVD''s and CD''s. Mobile Devices and applications are quickly becoming the dominant form of connectivity in society.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. From corporate organizations to educational institutions, the increasing number of connected mobile devices introduces security risks to users and networks.

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Google Workspace for Education (and other updates you need to know!) – SULS099

Shake Up Learning

Learn more about storage here. Google Classroom was originally built to simplify blended learning, but it has now become a more robust learning management system. Improved grading on mobile (coming later this year) : More teachers are using mobile devices to give feedback on the go. Google Classroom Updates.

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

Middle school in South Fayette starts the transition to specific technology skill courses, such as mobile app development. Students have made apps to help learn foreign languages. Now, go ahead and open up App Inventor,” Mannarino called out, referring to another block-based coding language, developed at MIT for making mobile apps.

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This is how your infrastructure should look before your next tech rollout

eSchool News

Reporting a problem and having it fixed a week later, with little or no communication in between, just doesn’t work. Staff and students must feel comfortable when they ask for support. They must be experts in all aspects of the technology within the organization, or must be able to source solutions quickly.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

Hack Education

The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. I have written quite a bit about the problems (as I see them) with the Horizon Report, most recently in a talk I gave last fall at VCU: “ The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release.”