Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Now, we know that edtech has been proven to improve test scores and overall classroom engagement. “There will be more momentum for mobile devices in classrooms with an eye toward affordable alternatives to traditional 1:1 rollouts.” Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010.

EdTech 176

EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. Educators and students both need peace of mind in the classroom. By Kenna McHugh.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

I gladly did that because I love being in the classroom. That was one key piece of advice from a national expert on college teaching I talked to, Josh Eyler, director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, who has written a book on effective college teaching.

Laptops 202

Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 202

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” colleges, but that has grown to more than 10,000 today.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

My favorite book was ‘One Time Froggy Made a Birthday Cake for His Mom.’”. Aleah Wolsey, 5, and a former preschool bus attendee, may not recall exact book titles but she learned how to summarize a plot. government terms “persistent poverty,” meaning that it has had poverty rates at or exceeding 20 percent for over 30 years.

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Kaplan E-rate Report Tablets 104

techlearning

JUNE 27, 2018

In total, 80 companies were honored at the BBJ’s awards program on Wednesday, June 20 at Boston’s Symphony Hall. We are extremely excited to recognize and honor the companies that clearly value and appreciate their employees and have backed that up by putting into place wonderful programs to keep everyone motivated and happy," said Carolyn M.

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E-rate Company Instructional Materials Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

On the flip side, research by the Annie E. Related: When reading a book means more than just looking at text on a page. I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world. It is the underpinning of so much of what we do in schools.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. Essential Physics is a full-color, comprehensive physics textbook, paired with an e-book offering over 100 interactive tools to increase student engagement and understanding.

CMS 63

CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 63

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

The companies and other entities creating those forums presumably get the exposure of having users enter and navigate sites they’ve created. The new online forum, HMH Marketplace, was launched with several thousand resources already loaded into the system, the company said.

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E-rate Education Company Resources 40

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

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Software Trends E-rate Coursera 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn’t place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official. A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. classrooms. Apple backed down.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 77

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar. The Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics (Annenberg Classroom). Educate students: Teach a lesson in your classroom or library about filtering. Debate.org.

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Libraries Social Media 40

The Mobile Native

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

School districts can look into E-Rate funding, local and national grants, local company contributions and help from their PTO. Some schools feel that Chrome Books are the better route for their students. Before I began using mobile devices in my classroom, I had the opportunity watch it in action in a different classroom.

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E-rate Mobility Mobile Learning Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. We can flip the classroom. Photo: Chris Berdik. We can extend the learning day.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 87

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Steve: You wrote a book recently with Olaf Zawacki-Richter - what are the main themes of this volume? We also wanted to find an open access publisher.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For some people, the policy shift had immediate consequences, as fortunes fell when stock prices for China’s giant edtech companies crashed. Photo by jianbing Lee / Shutterstock.

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EdTech Company Industry E-rate 149

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The recordings of recent FutureofEducation.com shows are posted: David Loertscher on Library 2.0 , Gina Bianchini on Mightybell , Tim Wilson on Redirect , Peter Cookson on a Children''s Education Bill of Rights , and an iPads in the Classroom report. Details and log-in links here.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

USA, announced the launch of the A30 , the world’s first All-in-One Camera with AI Audio for the Classroom. The A30 is a multi-functional classroom tool that enhances the teaching experience by combining a document camera, web camera, microphone, and speaker.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Th e app is in the testing phase now, and due to high early demand, will be released to early signups first. Your ratings help other teachers find the show so they can benefit from it, too. Your ratings help other teachers find the show so they can benefit from it, too. Go to Riffiti.com to sign up!

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E-rate Personal Learning Network Meeting Mobility 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2023

SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations. NOTE : please check your spam folder if you don't receive your confirmation email right away. For five or more use the institutional pricing below.

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Course Tools Libraries E-rate 82

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2023

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Course Tools Libraries E-rate 68

Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. Operational Cost Gone are the days when the things required to impart education were just different subject books, a professor, a blackboard, chalk, desks, and students. Now, the time has changed.

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How To Secondary Education E-rate 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 29, 2023

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Libraries 48

Libraries E-rate Pearson Social Media 48

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Partnering with local cable companies, internet providers, and community organizations, they expanded broadband to the school parking lots and community centers. Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

MindShift

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Copyright (c) 2019 by the author and reprinted with permission of Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC. And over the last two decades, there has been a 28-percent increase in our suicide rate. The superintendent of a major metropolitan district was out making classroom visits. By Marc Brackett.

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Learning E-rate Report Survey 53

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. But a national survey indicates this optimism may be misplaced: Just 16 percent of college instructors rated incoming students as “well” or “very well” prepared for college-level work, according to the 2015 study by ACT, the creators of the standardized college entrance exam. School just isn’t for me.

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E-rate Industry Report Survey 97

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

Have you struggled to find books that aren’t too babyish for below-grade-level readers? Or, have you been worried about recommending books with overly mature content to young readers who need more challenging texts? Most books are written in such a way that they are geared towards the typical aged reader for that level.

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Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. Now, a small but growing number of nonprofits and for-profit companies are saying they can deliver at least some of these experiences — and benefits — via the internet, and thousands of parents are signing up.

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Laptops Accessibility Online Learning Company 151

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

In a nutshell: Right now schools use a variety of digital programs that collect data that could be of use to teachers, but programs made by different companies don’t play well together – and some programs won’t even allow teachers to export data out of the system to use it themselves. Yeah, it’s a mouthful.

E-rate 41

E-rate Education Data Libraries 41

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44