MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

On a recent summer day, librarian Lyn Hunter posted a video to YouTube on how to make a weather thermometer using a straw, rubbing alcohol and a bottle. Hunter and her colleague Rachel Krumenacker at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had filmed the DIY craft on a Zoom call from their respective living rooms.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, more commonly known as E-rate, is a federal program through which schools and libraries can apply for funds to purchase hardware, internet access, and telecommunications to connect their students to learning opportunities. What if I get audited? What is E-rate?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Before March, the chief technology officers who keep modern classrooms connected would have agreed that new tech programs can’t be rolled out overnight. Thankfully I have an amazing staff who are very seasoned … I had a number of meetings and said, ‘Here’s the problem, how do we even begin to solve it?’”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

They were the outliers, those willing to open up their classrooms to try new things. They’re using technology as an integral part of their instruction and personalizing instruction for a classroom of students with diverse learning needs. Take, for example, the nation’s progress on wiring classrooms. Not the other way around.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Here are three alternative ideas for how to ensure students can learn from home when necessary. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S. But educators who want to make sure they reach every student don’t have to resort to mailing printed worksheets.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. With that in mind, here’s a guide to assess school district network needs and implement affordable broadband upgrades. How to Fund Network Upgrades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

We secured 450 new devices, I personally configured them and trained teachers and staff how to use them. Within two years, we launched a digital classroom and began integrating an online curriculum. With her blessing, I did a monthlong, schoolwide technology assessment and consulted the city councilman for our district on funding.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

However, I knew that things were a lot different once students left my classroom. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect. Ask questions like, "What do we use technology in the classroom for?";

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Cruzan was joined by LaShona Dickerson, technology director for Lafayette Parish School System in Louisiana, to give CoSN attendees tips on how to better plan for E-rate funding and avoid unnecessary audits. You’d be surprised how much time is spent on this area.”. CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. And – less widely discussed – there are decades of scholarship on how to teach with synchronous technologies. Worst, not everyone has sufficient bandwidth.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The series aims to educate young people about the dangers of misinformation, reporting not only how to identify it but also how to debunk misinformation it’s encountered online. Teachers of children from pre-K through 12th grade turn to PBS for digital content and services that help bring classroom lessons to life.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

However, I knew that things were a lot different once students left my classroom. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect. Ask questions like, "What do we use technology in the classroom for?";

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Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 40

edWeb.net

JULY 16, 2018

According to one technology coordinator, IT staff needs to be in a “constant state of alert” in order to stay ahead of new technology and know how to support it. An IT leadership survey from cosn.org lists the top three IT priorities in K-12 education as cybersecurity and broadband/network capacity, data security, and budgets.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors. Each student learned how to create brushes from words related to their subject matter.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 17, 2017

As teachers kick off the back-to-school season, we’d like to hear your thoughts about the role technology plays in your classrooms and how you empower your students to navigate digital learning. By integrating it into the classroom, teachers can: ■ Engage students in new material. Reinforce material in different ways.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 Technology is transforming what happens when a child goes to school | The Economist → Reformers are using new software to “personalise” learning: How well the model will work when it spreads is unclear. Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores?

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

Most instructors who’ve never taught online can find live video to be a closer analog to their classroom practice than asynchronous tools. And – less widely discussed – there are decades of scholarship on how to teach with synchronous technologies. Worst, not everyone has sufficient bandwidth.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 17, 2017

As teachers kick off the back-to-school season, we’d like to hear your thoughts about the role technology plays in your classrooms and how you empower your students to navigate digital learning. By integrating it into the classroom, teachers can: ■ Engage students in new material. Reinforce material in different ways.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. It also brought influential education leaders together at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The federal program, signed into law in 1996, helps fund internet access in schools and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Do you co-learn with a classroom across the globe? Get ideas on how to participate! More information.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Working together with members of Congress as well as technology and publishing firms, the Obama administration has launched ConnectED , a multi-billion dollar initiative aimed at wiring every classroom, modernizing school libraries, increasing professional development, and activating technology-infused professional learning communities.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

Working together with members of Congress as well as technology and publishing firms, the Obama administration has launched ConnectED , a multi-billion dollar initiative aimed at wiring every classroom, modernizing school libraries, increasing professional development, and activating technology-infused professional learning communities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

You will want access to this library long-term, I promise! Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Tomorrow, Thursday, October 15th, is the final day for "early-bird" pricing to purchase the Summit library. Check them out! Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. “We’re all going to have to try things and give each other grace.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home. The ubiquitous nature of the K-12 classroom has created some significant equity issues.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. Mixing term-time internships with classroom academics is not a brand-new idea.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. And we’ve got WritingCity. “I’ve spoken to his mom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Learn more about our MiniCon events and how to sign up for these fun presentation opportunities here. But what about content?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. The Classroom 2.0 November 2 - 4, all online, all free. We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

and since learning inside was deemed dubious at best, the classroom was moved outdoors, where group gatherings were considered safe. Library of Congress ) The photos, shot in black and white, are from the early 20th century, and the disease in question was tuberculosis. Maybe they have one classroom available outside but need 25.

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