The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

While some educators worry about turning schools into vehicles for job readiness, efforts to integrate technical training and academic education continue to gain traction. Choudhury, though, is adamant about the value of economic integration — and the importance of giving low-income students, in particular, access to educational options.

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E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 95

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Our guest, Danielle Johnson, Executive Director of the Texas Scholastic Esports Federation, shares how esports is not just about gaming but about boosting student engagement, improving academic performance, and building a more inclusive school community. Esports are rapidly growing in schools across the country.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 362

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Hines Elementary in Waco, Texas Here’s what eSN’s panel of educator experts had to say about DEI in action in their schools, the challenges they still face, and what they think will advance DEI initiatives in the years to come. How do we go about training our students to realize that where we come from is important?

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 112

Edthena

APRIL 14, 2021

In this conversation with eSchool News’ Kevin Hogan for the podcast Innovations in Education , Diane Lauer talks about how COVID couldn’t stop teacher training. Kevin Hogan: Let’s talk about it, but let’s get into it, the ‘where were you when’ question. Am I right? Diane Lauer: Yes, absolutely.

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Video Training iPad Technology 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

We did try to keep the podcast a little shorter this week--although it wasn''t easy--to much to talk about, and too fun! The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The last revision to the law gave us No Child Left Behind.

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 16, 2017

What it is: I’ve written about StackUp before here but, over the last three years, the company has grown up enough that it warrants another post! His traditional resume failed to document the thousands of hours that he spent online in self-taught learning about the automotive industry. The problem? If not, you should be!

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Learning Industry Google Social Media 28

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? The thread on this tweet has the details. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link].

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

edWeb.net

MARCH 22, 2023

28% of secondary school educators said their students experience neck, back, or wrist pain and fatigue while using EdTech. For example, one side of the room might be for technology, where students can use interactive panels or find Chromebooks and iPads. Teachers can create and maintain classrooms (space, equipment, materials, etc.)

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Technology EdTech Schoology Learning 77

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The district also holds several events inviting staff to learn about technology tools and strategies for the classroom. The district serves an economically-disadvantaged community with about 80 percent of the students eligible to participate in the free and reduced-price meal program. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 108

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning. weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Their message is crystal clear.

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Education Secondary Outcomes Chromebook 60

techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

CERTIPORT & EC-COUNCIL ASSOCIATE SERIES CERTIFICATION CURRICULUM ( certiport.pearsonvue.com ) & ( www.eccouncil.org ) Certiport announced a certification program for secondary schools and higher education in partnership with EC-Council. Teachers are free to move about the classroom without being stuck to their desks.

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Tools Chromebook Software Mobility 46

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2023. Predictions about the state of youth mental health in America have been realized. It is all about the balance. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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EdTech Industry Assessment Data 131

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Ontario Curriculum (by the Ontario Ministry of Education): Maybe the best example of how to weave media literacy fundamentally into primary and secondary school curricula. Media literacy must not just be about critiquing media but contributing media that fights for a more just and inclusive world. For more, check out our review.

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Resources Classroom Social Media Video 80

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

“When you are in a game, all that information in the immersive world is tied to your heart and your emotions and that becomes a very powerful retention tool,” said Garrett Zimmer, president of MineGage , a company that makes Minecraft lessons with extra programming to track progress. ” John Miller.

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Examples Tools Guidelines Secondary 28

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended). Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Worth the long read.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended). Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Worth the long read.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2023. Predictions about the state of youth mental health in America have been realized. It is all about the balance. This begged the question: What’s next for education?

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 67

Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Anderson interviews Vanessa Siddle Walker about her new book, The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools. National) Education Politics. ” The Atlantic’s Melinda D.

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E-rate Education Robotics Elsevier 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas. Good for you.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” (“What do we really know about the value of prekindergarten?” And I hardly noticed any freak out about these scores this week like there usually is about math scores. It’s almost as though the narrative about “failing schools” doesn’t care much about students’ creativity.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” ” I’ll be adding student loan company Quiklo to the ed-tech dead pool. Chromebooks. Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50