eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2015

HDMI over wi-fi is ready to obsolete cables and transform the classroom—almost. Wires in classrooms are an inconvenience, yet they have been an inescapable fact of life for over a decade. Many traditional classrooms and learning spaces have a data projector or TV screen that is used by the teacher or students to present information.

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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. Are there families who use only phones (or tablets) to access the internet?

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Districts looking for long term sustainability by purchasing high quality devices at an affordable cost should take a hard look at both laptops and tablets for solutions.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. They donated an iPad to every student, a Mac and iPad to every teacher, and an Apple TV to every classroom. Middle school students use pre-crafted story maps to learn standard classroom content in science and social studies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. He prefers to go to bookshelf,” she said, “instead of sitting on the tablet and trying to figure it out.”.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Work collaboratively to answer the question, “What do we want teaching and learning to look like in our classrooms in three to five years?”. Assess and understand current infrastructure and broadband capabilities. This includes both teacher and student input and formal and informal feedback cycles should be in place.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet.

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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. Are there families who use only phones (or tablets) to access the internet?

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Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Foundation grant will fund educational computer tablets for 1,500 low-income families. The grant will fund a pilot program providing 1,500 tablet computers, preloaded with educational content, to families in Georgia who are enrolling in Cox Communications’ Connect2Compete discounted internet service program. . The James M.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s the present—except at the significant percentage of schools without reliable high-speed internet. The activity falls short, but not because of an inherent problem with the program or its application in the classroom. By Heidi Moore. Purcell asked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Technology like tablets PCs, apps, and access to broadband internet are lubricating the shift to mobile learning, but a truly immersive mobile learning environment goes beyond the tools for learning to the lives and communities valued by each individual learner. 12 Principles Of Mobile Learning.

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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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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 21, 2016

Most classrooms in the United States are Internet enabled. It suggests that the vast majority of students have access to broadband capabilities. The goal of Obama’s ConnectED initiative is to equip every school in the country with high-speed broadband by 2018 at speeds greater than 100 Mbps. The Challenge.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Please see information about volunteering here. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Curating the Best Content for Learning , Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. Register here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. The Classroom 2.0 The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes? We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

With its filtering system in place, Tustin USD monitors the filters at both the grade and classroom level, particularly for high school. It also informs parents of the potential issue and what’s being done to mitigate it. “Students are always trying to set up proxy servers to find a way around the filters,” said Craven.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Here’s just a glimpse of what we learned about during FETC 2023: AVer Information Inc. USA, announced the launch of the A30 , the world’s first All-in-One Camera with AI Audio for the Classroom. Lenovo also introduced a new collaborative feature for its LanSchool Air classroom management solution.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

Google just made some HUGE announcements about your favorite Google products, including Google Classroom and officially renaming G Suite as Google Workspace for Education. We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms! Google Classroom Updates. Learn more about storage here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

We’d need to consider not just what technology products students are exposed to in the classroom, but also across the rest of their lives. It’s not like 40 years ago in the late 1970s when a single Apple II in the back of the classroom had explorers endlessly dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. Yes, teens.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Dr. Donna Wright.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. It also allows her to teach students who arrive in her classroom with vastly different skill levels. The foundation has already raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for classroom iPads, digital audiobooks, and high-tech wiring.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Yeah.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Schools do continue to turn away from the iPad as the tablet hasn’t proven to be quite as revolutionary as some predicted. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s one thing to be blasé about what a company you’ve chosen to do business with might do with your personal information; it’s another thing altogether when the bad guys have stolen it. Data breaches happen with alarming frequency.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s one thing to be blasé about what a company you’ve chosen to do business with might do with your personal information; it’s another thing altogether when the bad guys have stolen it. Data breaches happen with alarming frequency.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The agency issued an order to support affordable access to high-speed broadband in particular (not merely “access to the Internet”) and to boost access and bandwidth of schools’ WiFi networks. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 What might this look like?

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

What Happens in My Classroom During a Lockdown Drill Should Horrify Americans,” writes K. Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” Via Standard Digital : “School abandons computer lessons as tablets remains unpowered.” Katzmann in The Trace.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 A (Electronic) Textbook Case of Disruption | The American Interest → Schools are starting to take advantage of cheap tablets and open-sourced learning materials to give their students touchscreen, on-demand textbooks that—and here’s the kicker—can save school districts millions of dollars every year.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 A (Electronic) Textbook Case of Disruption | The American Interest → Schools are starting to take advantage of cheap tablets and open-sourced learning materials to give their students touchscreen, on-demand textbooks that—and here’s the kicker—can save school districts millions of dollars every year.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150