EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . Technology can make a difference , and in this case it’s a good fit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. art, design, technology, sound/music, project management). Making games cultivates a range of hard skills (e.g.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Moving to a virtual Classroom –from Microsoft. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. coronaviruseducation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

I know people don’t want to mention Microsoft Teams because it’s Microsoft. And – less widely discussed – there are decades of scholarship on how to teach with synchronous technologies. Fifth, as with any other technology, faculty and students have to learn how to use it competently.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Over the past few years, there has been a huge influx of education technology resources available to schools – from tablets and robotics, to online platforms and digital whiteboards. However, with the sheer amount of technology available, it can be challenging to identify those resources, products, or tools that tick all the boxes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

The purpose is to highlight libraries and how important it is for people to continue to build their literacy skills especially when it comes to changing technologies and access to more information than ever before. Rachelle teaches Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology at Riverview Junior-Senior High School in Oakmont, PA.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 7, 2020

I know people don’t want to mention Microsoft Teams because it’s Microsoft. And – less widely discussed – there are decades of scholarship on how to teach with synchronous technologies. Fifth, as with any other technology, faculty and students have to learn how to use it competently.

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Blackboard Microsoft Education Adobe 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. We are in that moment now in education.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Just when many school districts were starting to feel good about their wireless coverage and internet bandwidth, they face yet another question about technology infrastructure: how good are their defenses against hacking, or what’s more formally known as “cybercrime”? Wireless, once a frustration for many teachers, has largely improved.

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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. Microsoft announced the deployment of Office Web Apps as a competitor to Google Apps. Cloud computing is here to stay.

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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. In 1996 Microsoft's Bill Gates claimed that 'content is king'. Never before has gaining access to information been so easy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. “Three days to conduct a survey of technology needs from 130,000 students and to prepare thousands of computers for student use.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? 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. First is the evolving nature of education technology. And determined.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Libraries and librarians are well-positioned to envision the future – at the intersection of information, education, technology, and community – and this dialogue will help bring our best thinking together with the exciting visions of our collaborators, allies, and partners. https://slisapps.sjsu.edu/facultypages/view.php?fac=hirshs

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Libraries and librarians are well-positioned to envision the future – at the intersection of information, education, technology, and community – and this dialogue will help bring our best thinking together with the exciting visions of our collaborators, allies, and partners. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries.

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

While especially helpful for her students with less digital experience, it also seemed to lessen the technology fatigue of her students overall. This agency also comes into play with Immersive Reader , a tool on Microsoft devices with similar browser extensions. “I feel like their stress factor lowers.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”. The population in this region around Pittsburgh is surging, thanks to a thriving medical and technology economy and a natural gas-fracking boom. We started being invited into classrooms,” said Owens. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

From Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to take over the classroom, to random acts in both K-12 and higher education compromising the private information of millions of vulnerable students, 2017 has been no short of edtech news. Increasingly, that means broadband. It helps them offset the cost of telecommunications services.

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Doug Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Levin was executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association during the rollout of ConnectED, the Obama administration’s initiative to bring high-speed broadband internet and educational technology to schools.

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Doug Levin

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Levin was executive director of the State Educational Technology Directors Association during the rollout of ConnectED, the Obama administration’s initiative to bring high-speed broadband internet and educational technology to schools.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. “technologizing” the government. ” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” ” What could possibly go wrong? Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” ” Maybe.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I maintain a dataset of all education technology investments and all education technology investors. Glaring in its absence from this list: “personalization,” one of the most trumpeted technology “solutions” this year. (I’ll The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is no exception.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

It’s a partnership with Microsoft. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.” ” (In Cleveland.). MarcoPolo Learning has raised $8.5

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” Teach for America but for Afghanistan.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ FCC Delays Are Keeping Broadband From Rural School Kids,” says Wired. ” From GeekWire : “For investors, the future of education technology is now the workplace.” National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “ Coursera More than Doubles Number of Degrees on Its Platform,” says Campus Technology. ” Perhaps protest Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab ? National) Education Politics. Vive la MOOC révolution. PHEW, RIGHT?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).

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