Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ACER CHROMEBOOK TAB 10 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Chromebook Tab 10 will be used in classrooms to expand and enhance student learning. Judges loved the game’s creativity and its accessibility for students still learning to read. Please join us in congratulating the following winners.

Robotics 42

Robotics Chromebook Edmentum Mobility 42

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Coronavirus gave many just days. on April 10, 2020.

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 21, 2015

They attended a number of after school trainings and shared what was going well and what wasn’t. For example, primary teachers were recording student performance assessments, such as book talks and oral reports, using the iPad and then posting it online for parents to see. This worked for us. Just try it and apply it.

Technology 28

Technology iPad Learning Tablets 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. But it’s increasingly common.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 133

TeacherCast

JANUARY 31, 2022

I was always that kid with my head in the tech books at school and every night when I was home, I was pulling apart some type of technology to fiddle with. It was through that machine that I learned to take apart a machine piece by piece. Growing up, I loved to tinker. When I was 14, my father gave me his old computer.

Digital Citizenship 88

Digital Citizenship Digital Learning Meeting Groups 88

TeacherCast

JANUARY 31, 2022

I was always that kid with my head in the tech books at school and every night when I was home, I was pulling apart some type of technology to fiddle with. A second and equally important goal for any STT is to learn about the technologies that are being used in and around the classrooms. Growing up, I loved to tinker.

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Digital Citizenship Digital Learning Meeting Groups 88

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

x11” page size, so if I want it to look like a real book or possibly print it as a real book, and then you just go to Download As… and you can download it as a PDF. If you expect to learn something, say, in a training, step-by-step directions and that would be it for the next year or two years? So I can create an 8.5”x11”

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Google eBook Video Assessment 347

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There are backlogs of items such as Chromebooks. Districts such as Weathers’ and Rouse’s are working with the Digital Learning Collaborative, a nonprofit that is dedicated to best practices in digital learning.

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Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the 2020-21 school year, the FlexPoint team helped more than 160 new schools and districts around the nation launch their first online learning programs during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, FLVS supported Florida schools and districts by training more than 10,000 teachers statewide and provided ongoing support.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 128

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. They haven’t.). But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145