The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. million broadband connections, according to the FCC. Subscribe today! million connected devices and nearly 3.5

Broadband 113

Broadband Digital Divide Libraries Accessibility 113

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. Teachers want data that make it possible for them to adapt their instruction,” says Marken.

EdTech 136

EdTech Survey Digital Divide Classroom 136

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

What’s the best role for synchronous teaching and learning during a pandemic? Over the past few weeks the switch to wholly online learning has been represented by live video meetings. Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order.

Blackboard 141

Blackboard Education Microsoft Adobe 141

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? There is also a growing need for quality SEL data to ensure that educators are serving students’ SEL needs.

EdTech 139

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 139

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

The Consortium for School Networking, or CoSN, issued a plan of action this week that aims to prod district leaders to at least gather data on personal student broadband access. to repurpose the Educational Broadband Service spectrum. Panel Calls for FCC to Offer Broadband Subsidies to Low-Income Households.

Accessibility 40

Accessibility E-rate Broadband Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. Online, he has no problem asking the teacher a question,” said Woodward. That last part is one of the biggest barriers to remote learning in rural areas. Credit: Image provided by Patricia Woodward.

Survey 130

Survey Course Online Learning Accessibility 130

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

What’s the best role for synchronous teaching and learning during a pandemic? Over the past few weeks the switch to wholly online learning has been represented by live video meetings. Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order.

Blackboard 52

Blackboard Microsoft Education Adobe 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

While Discovery’s second-graders scoured their school for light and heat energy, a group of third-graders huddled around a table to brainstorm fraction “story problems” using the school’s energy data, pulling their numerators and denominators from the dashboard. Or they simply distribute screen grabs of dashboard data. RELATED: Psst!

Elementary 108

Elementary Learning Data Report 108

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures. Every year, Renaissance Learning publishes what it calls the world’s largest annual study of K-12 reading habits, the “ What Kids are Reading ” report.

Libraries 140

Libraries Survey E-rate Report 140

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Learning 77

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Learning Coaching and Mentoring ? Learning Cultures ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ? Lifelong Learning ? Online Learning ? Remote Teaching and Learning ? Libraries and Librarians ? Managing Stress ? Math Education ? Microschools ? Music Education ? Open Source and OER ? Pandemic Pods ? hours a day.

Conference 34

Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Here’s what they had to say: The demand for online learning will continue to grow in 2022 and possibly lead to the creation of virtual schools, which would introduce new AR and VR learning processes. 5G promises reliability, lightning-fast speeds, and much higher data capacities.

EdTech 114

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 114

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

Digital Divide 218

Digital Divide How To Learning Broadband 218

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A pending Connecticut law will now mandate that the University of Connecticut and the state’s four other public universities publicly release data on which transfer student credits they accept and which they reject.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

. “Faculty,” as this year’s ECAR study put it , “have a love-hate relationship with online teaching and learning. Most faculty agree that online learning makes higher education available to more students, but few agree that online learning helps students learn more effectively.”

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55