EdTech Magazine

APRIL 20, 2018

Despite the abundant technology advances that have taken place over the past century, many classrooms still have something in common with the one-room schoolhouses of yore. The agency launched the Room 21C initiative to create a learning environment designed to promote collaborative and personalized learning through the use of technology.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

This shift to technology-mediated teaching and learning puts a spotlight on the homework gap -- the divide between students who have home broadband access and those who do not. Students in households that don't have Wi-Fi won't be able to download work, view online materials, or attend virtual classes. Demand action now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

When you have internet access, download work from Google Classroom to work offline. Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. How do I make online learning personal? Study Ladder- -lots of online resources for kids.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Without the proper infrastructure , options for families in Ector County are often limited to satellite internet, which can be expensive and unreliable, with very slow download speeds. Some families in the western and southern portion of the County can only purchase a maximum of 25 megabits per second of download speed.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 30, 2022

Last year, Congress created the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new long-term, $14 billion programs, to replace the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Encourage grantees to leverage community events to facilitate ACP sign-ups.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 24, 2017

It is our core belief that w ith access to more information and more data on broadband speeds and pricing, school district leaders are empowered to find new service options, make informed broadband choices, and get more bandwidth for their budgets. Our approach to achieving data accuracy: Data Col lection.

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The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 7, 2016

When I was an Instructional Technology Director one of the challenges I faced was working to ensure that students, no matter where they lived in my district, had access to the same tools and opportunities. I could provide technology that could be used in the schools, and provided high speed network access while they were in schools.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Though for many school districts, slow download speeds in classrooms serve as the impetus for a network upgrade, there are many reasons district leaders strive to revamp their broadband infrastructure. The broadband itself was sufficient for the number of devices they had now, but what if they wanted to use more devices?

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techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

JUNE 26, 2018 - The Federal Communications Commission soon will evaluate funding regulations for broadband internet in schools and libraries to consider how connectivity demands align with program utility and efficiency. Visit [link] to download the complete 2018 Trends Report. EDMOND, OKLA.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 24, 2017

It is our core belief that with transparency in broadband speeds and pricing, school districts are empowered to grow their technology programs. We also download school district demographic information from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), and boundaries for state maps from the U.S.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 8, 2017

Those needs often differ based on your school’s location, number of students, and digital learning curriculum, so it’s useful to start with some broadband best practices as you build your school’s digital future. ” -Network Consultant and Former District Technology Director Coree Kelly. “People think of kids with computers.

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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. Five years ago, when District Superintendent Jeff Daugherty first took on his role, he saw that the district was lagging behind in its technology use.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 8, 2017

Those needs often differ based on your school’s location, number of students, and digital learning curriculum, so it’s useful to start with some broadband best practices as you build your school’s digital future. ” -Network Consultant and Former District Technology Director Coree Kelly. “People think of kids with computers.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 9, 2020

Many students lack internet and technology access at home. Students in households that don't have Wi-Fi won't be able to download work, view online materials, or attend virtual classes. Common Sense is calling on Congress to fund devices and broadband service so all students can connect to distance learning this school year.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating one persistent technology leader, Robin Bolt, who has made history at Rappahannock County Public Schools by bringing fiber connections to her rural school division in Washington, Virginia. “In 2018, we were using 1980s technology and [the Internet] was in and out.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Jared Cotton Early in his career, Cotton was a district technology specialist and developed an appreciation for anyone who could wield emerging technologies in exciting new ways. Now the superintendent of Henry County (Virginia) Public Schools, Cotton is himself looking for new ways to leverage technology to teach his students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 This makes Byju’s one of the rare unicorns in education technology and the fourth most valuable privately held company in India. million annual subscribers who pay between $150 to $200 each.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Starting from the early days of online education tools, teachers have been downloading their favorites and sharing them with students. More important, when educators can download and add digital resources on their own, they may be giving companies unintended access to private student information. I’m not interested in checking a box.

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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. This post is the first in a three-part series highlighting key points from the guide—you can also download the full version of the guide here.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

This meant downloading the app to my phone (Android, Galaxy Note 3), then manually subscribing to every podcast I normally listen to. Over the next few weeks I’ll use this setup to download and consume podcasts. Normally I download mp3s to one of my laptops over WiFi, which has no cost implications.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 16, 2019

As always these are free to download and adapt to meet your own local needs and regulations. We are committed to helping school district leaders with your broadband upgrades at no cost. Understand your current infrastructure and technology goals. Research technology and provider options. Hands-On Learning & Support.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

Technology for me in the 1980s was a dodgy microfiche in the university library and then my trusty and often dusty overhead projector in my classroom. They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones. Or if you like, Generation Technology. I’m a Gen X baby. I owned one of those too.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

At no cost, and for the first time, K-12 schools can now confidently apply state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to better protect the school environment. SAFR for K-12 can be downloaded by schools beginning today at www.realnetworks.com/safr/k12. We hope this will help make schools safer."

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

If teachers want kids to use online resources in class, they must take home a classroom set of laptops and download the information to each computer in preparation for the school day. Since 2014, a primary goal of the E-rate program has been to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband in the nation’s schools.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2016

Hopefully we have advanced technologically and culturally in that time, but some of the problems we experience then are still with us today. Significant problems include a lack of broadband connectivity in various parts of the world. Here is my summary of seven of the themes and challenges raised during the conference.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 24, 2011

With school districts facing budget cuts and the maintenance and upkeep of school buildings increasing, it only makes sense that schools leverage technology to reduce costs while improving instruction. As broadband service become increasingly common there is no reason for physical media such as DVD''s and CD''s.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The software’s release supports international legislation obliging schools to introduce filtering technology and monitor students’ internet use more closely to safeguard and promote their welfare and prevent them “from being drawn into terrorism.”.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2012

The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. His argument was that all media and technologies are neutral, and that the user imposes their own interpretations upon them.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

As emerging technologies go, artificial intelligence (AI) has certainly taken its time in making its presence felt on the world. Since then, AI has experienced a largely stop-start existence, principally due to sporadic funding and below-par technology. The market has reacted at pace. Maybe even before you got out of bed.

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Nik Peachey

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

What’s on the site The site is aimed at ELT teachers who are interested in developing their technology skills for teaching purposes. The first is ‘General teacher training videos’ This contains video tutorials on how to do some pretty useful stuff from how to use ITunes and download podcasts to how to create a Blog and PowerPoint tips.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2022

Improving school districts’ technology infrastructure and capabilities became more important than ever when COVID-19 first arrived. Teah, Director of Information Technology, Infrastructure, Data Center, and Security, put it, “Everything needed to happen yesterday.”. Pandemic Responses. And as Elvis K.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Their family does not have a computer or broadband internet at home, so the siblings have to take turns sharing their mom’s phone to access online lessons. Some days, the device’s download speed seemed to function at a crawl. Credit: Terri Johnson.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future.

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