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. A teacher at an elementary school in a Boston suburb leads students through a story creation session using Pixie. By Heidi Moore.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., 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. on March 18, 2020.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. Just three days to mobilize a community of partners and volunteers to assist our schools.”

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Thursday, October 23rd at 3pm ISTE Webinar: Developing Your Mobile Learning Landscape , This webinar will introduce a powerful new professional learning experience for teachers, tech coaches, and administrators who are interested in bringing their school up to digital age standards. More information. Building Circuits in the Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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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. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

will offer all of the features included in the beta version as well as new additions such as dynamically linked representations, additional types of graphing interactions, improved authoring tools, and more. MOBILE UPDATES ( kahoot.com/blog/2018/06/13/learners-to-leaders-create-kahoot-app/ ) Kahoot!

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Children in fifth grade at South Fayette elementary school collaborate to make their Rube Goldberg machines do what they wish. In elementary school, students learn the foundations of computational thinking, such as collaborative problem-solving and trial and error. Chris Berdik). Ok guys, let’s settle down!

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: Broadband access. Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. Only 13 percent of New Mexico’s population has access to a low-price internet service plan, according to Broadband Now, a research group.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

And their cash-strapped school district has struggled to provide them with even the most basic digital tools. But many students live in threadbare mobile homes and modest, low-slung dwellings on the edge of town. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.” ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” The mobile app maker has raised $11.9 ” (In Cleveland.).

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

.” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Via Techcrunch : “ Mystery Science partners with Google to bring eclipse glasse s to elementary school students.”

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