Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

And as the Haw burbled in the background last Friday and Saturday, school administrators, teachers and edtech entrepreneurs gathered for thoughtful conversations and exchanges around how to use digital technology to support learning at the 30th EdSurge Tech for Schools Summit. Here’s what we learned. Led by Gov.

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Digital Learning Learning Broadband STEM 89

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Merritt has spent the past five years steadily investing in a 1:1 student-to-device program and building out the technological infrastructure to support it. As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms.

Digital Learning 92

Digital Learning Guidelines E-rate Edcamps 92

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Results of a recent survey of educators at participating schools conducted by our partner Westat agreed with Lubas’ sentiment, showing that prior experience integrating technology into learning made the shift to distance learning smoother.

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Broadband Learning Blended Learning Training 159

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2017

According to the National Education Association , educators in urban schools are more likely to strongly agree about the value of technology, both for themselves and for their students. According to Future Ready Schools , there are 21 million students in the US who still lack the broadband capabilities necessary for digital learning.

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How To Broadband Future Ready EdTech 88

Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

. “The explosion in teacher interest and usage of videos and game-based learning could be a harbinger of a new awakening for digital learning” said Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, in a statement. A growing number of teachers, meanwhile, are hungry for PD on how to integrate games in their classrooms.

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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. What does Digital Learning mean to you? Elle Patterson: Digital learning was barely used in my schools.

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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. What does Digital Learning mean to you? Elle Patterson: Digital learning was barely used in my schools.

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Digital Learning Learning Broadband Social Media 45

Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

Only 3% of teachers in high-poverty level schools said that their students had the digital tools necessary to complete homework assignments, compared to 52% of teachers in more affluent schools. A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

Statewide ed-tech inventories are helping state leaders assess their digital learning needs. When Ray Timothy, executive director of the Utah Education and Telehealth Network , saw the results of a new statewide inventory of technology deployed across all 989 Utah public schools, one figure jumped out at him in particular.

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Digital Learning Assessment E-rate Survey 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Most were near our offices in Silicon Valley so that we could learn from them firsthand. At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet. Equally important, they’re never using “technology for technology’s sake.”

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Education Superhighway

JULY 18, 2018

Dr. Haggard wasn’t always this supportive of technology in the classroom. ” At Buellton Union, which serves just over 600 students in Santa Barbara County, California, Dr. Haggard is a superintendent who is dedicated to making sure his teachers and students have access to high-speed Internet to keep up with changing technology.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 58

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By Kathleen Costanza.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Over the past eight years, WANRack has worked with schools and communities to close the digital divide and ensure students have access to digital learning in every classroom, every day. With the increasing use of technology as a tool for learning, students and teachers need more than basic connectivity.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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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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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. If you are thinking about how to improve your district’s connectivity but are unsure about where to begin, here are three questions to help start the conversation.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 64

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. If you are thinking about how to improve your district’s connectivity but are unsure about where to begin, here are three questions to help start the conversation.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Tools 63

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

When we started thinking about how to support schools working to close the Digital Learning Gap , we knew we wanted school leaders to feel just as confident and prepared as athletes ready for a race. An effective technology integration plan requires buy-in and participation from everyone. Ready to Commit. Getting to yes.

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Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility Mobility 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

In many cities however, the start of this school year seemed similar to the start of last year, with few — if any — changes made or lessons learned. I sat down with Richard Culatta, the chief executive officer of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), to ask him to reflect on this moment in education.

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Broadband Technology Tools Report 123

Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Now that the pandemic has subsided, designers should consider whether their education product caters to all-digital learning or hybrid teaching by offering the best user experience. Tools that allow students a certain degree of independence to take charge of their learning apart from the instructions imparted by educators. .

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eBook Education EdTech Broadband 59

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. Hands-on learning will make a big comeback. We all know young children learn best when doing and creating with concrete manipulatives.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 8, 2017

As summer winds down, you’ve likely already started thinking about how to meet your school’s bandwidth needs in the year (and years) to come. Here are six key considerations, based on the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband access recommendations, to bear in mind as you evaluate your school’s needs.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 8, 2017

As summer winds down, you’ve likely already started thinking about how to meet your school’s bandwidth needs in the year (and years) to come. Here are six key considerations, based on the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband access recommendations, to bear in mind as you evaluate your school’s needs.

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BYOD Broadband Meeting Policies 49

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 144

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. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments. By Chloe, Age 6.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 28, 2015

School may just be getting back into session, but EducationSuperHighway has been working this summer to help school districts upgrade their networks so that their students can take advantage of digital learning when they return to the classroom. Understand the Broadband Landscape. Identify Options.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Analysis 40

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. Today, using tech for teaching and learning -- both in class and for homework -- is a lot more common than it was. I learned a lot, but it was all about digital equity at a district and citywide level.

Classroom 75

Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 75

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2015

Technology-rich classrooms that enable digital learning are not possible unless high-speed broadband gets there first—and that often means upgrading a school district’s network. Next week we’ll share how to estimate the amount of bandwidth your network needs to meet your digital education goals.

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Broadband Digital Learning Meeting Technology 40

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. After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive.

Learning 72

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 72

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. Today, using tech for teaching and learning -- both in class and for homework -- is a lot more common than it was. I learned a lot, but it was all about digital equity at a district and citywide level.

Classroom 40

Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. We’re still learning how to fly as we’re flying,” he said. “We

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The top problems they identified were decreased student enrollment at colleges and insufficient access to and understanding of digital technology among students and instructors. After all, remote learning that relies on video calls and emails doesn’t work well for students who don’t have internet access.

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Policies Broadband Digital Divide Outcomes 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. Teachers themselves report a lack of confidence using technology tools in the classroom. With 99 percent of U.S.

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Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 107

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. We brought them in to look at our technology and to make sure we were headed in the right direction,” said Dooley.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Working with local school districts, Polar Communications delivered broadband to North Dakota students in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most important resources was high-speed, dependable broadband. . In that survey, we found that we had eight to ten families that didn’t have broadband.

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Company Broadband Learning Survey 52

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This broadband leader has always had a passion for policy – especially when it came to funding for technology in schools. As a former teacher, tech coordinator, and chief technology officer, Jennifer Bergland now leads advocacy efforts as the Director of Governmental Relations at Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA).

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Policies Technology Advocacy E-rate 49

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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