Digital Promise

JULY 20, 2020

The different factors that we know impact learning encompass the whole child—not just their math and literacy skills but also their cognitive abilities, social-emotional states, and their personal background. All of these factors interact to impact a child’s readiness to learn when they come into the classroom.

Professional Learning 195

Professional Learning E-rate Learning Strategy 195

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the past few years, concerted efforts like E-rate modernization and various statewide initiatives have helped bring digital learning opportunities to students across the nation. Let’s look at three examples of how digital learning is changing the face of today’s classroom learning.

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Digital Learning E-rate Chromebook Learning 74

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

To better understand how using technology can create equity in schools, we’ll outline how technology creates more equitable situations in the classroom. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom.

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Accessibility Technology E-rate Data 335

Hapara

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: Your learners don’t come to your classroom with perfect math, language arts, science and social studies skills. It will help them set goals, collaborate in positive ways and make better decisions within your classroom and the school. They can do this with a rubric or a rating scale.

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Strategy Hapara E-rate Differentiated Instruction 144

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Whether you’re an experienced educator or a parent struggling to adjust to remote learning in the face of the national lockdown, chances are good that you’re looking for ideas to help your student, or students, thrive in the unfamiliar world of the virtual classroom. The key is to learn what works best for each of them.

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Social Media Gamification Learning E-rate 195

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As you know, Digital Promise is committed to closing the Digital Learning Gap -- ensuring that all learners have equitable access to technology, acquire the skills to fully participate in a connected world, and feel empowered to achieve their life and work goals. school and library to the Internet.

E-rate 120

E-rate Libraries Meeting Accessibility 120

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. So it should be with E-Rate.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

Who dares to TEACH must never cease to LEARN – John Cotton Dana For many school districts, the ability to create a dynamic and effective Instructional Coaching program is a challenge. In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. One question focuses on specific applications.

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

“What you find out very quickly as teachers is not just the power of using technology in the classroom, but the power to extend learning, to carry it beyond just the school day,” says Brian Nicol, communications coordinator and, until recently, a teacher at the Wisconsin school district. Share them in the comments.

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Resources E-rate Broadband Digital Divide 120

Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. The chart below outlines three general usage scenarios and the bandwidth necessary to support each of the various digital learning environments.

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E-rate Broadband BYOD Smartphone 70

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 4, 2018

Elearning design needs to engage and persuade the learner to know how to engage with the content and learning. Dr. Laurie Korte talks about e-learning design that engages learners and common mistakes of e-learning and blended learning classrooms. Register at [link] today. Listen Now. Completely lost.

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Strategy Learning E-rate Course 173

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

You have a few hundred teachers scattered across several school buildings, each with their own comfort level digital learning, and only one or a few coaches to support everyone. In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. Pre-Workshop Documents and Surveys. How does the PD Topic Survey Work?

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

Integrating new technology into a classroom can be intimidating. Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new edtech before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. Ready to see what eSpark can do for your classrooms? Edtech is a necessity for rural education.

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EdTech E-rate Education Data 52

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Making sure your school district has the ability to scale your Internet access over time is critical to keeping pace with demand for digital learning in the classroom. However, E-rate program rules require you to re-bid if you want to make a change to the service described in your establishing Form 470.

E-rate 40

E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility Meeting 40

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. In fact, K-12 edtech innovation news is full of examples of successful and engaging edtech implementations.

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Technology Education Adaptive Learning Accessibility 74

Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. An example of how the H?para Jupyter Notebook.

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OER Resources How To Education 130

Education Superhighway

JULY 9, 2019

A shared vision for digital learning. With personalized student learning at the center, the Future Ready Framework provides a roadmap to support school leaders in building a digital plan that prepares students for success in college, career, and citizenship. Your team should include: 1.

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E-rate Broadband Comparison Future Ready 65

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, a professor might have to toggle between a learning management system ( LMS) for grading, an e-reader that delivers the textbook, a platform used to present information in class, an app that helps with student participation and a homework solution for out-of-class assignments.

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Trends EdTech E-rate LMS 119

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2016

Lubbock Independent School District aims to support a thriving culture of digital learning in its schools by ensuring teachers and students have more than enough bandwidth. With 51 schools located in West Texas, Lubbock has struggled to find affordable options to serve their nearly-thirty thousand students.

E-rate 66

E-rate Broadband Comparison Blended Learning 66

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

eSchool News Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. Have you dreamed of using more digital tools and resources in your district’s classrooms, but don’t know where to look for those resources?

Mobile Learning 40

Mobile Learning Mobility E-rate Robotics 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. billion by 2022.

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EdTech Learning Data Classroom 145

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. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Which digital learning tools do teachers in your district wish they could use?

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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. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Which digital learning tools do teachers in your district wish they could use?

Broadband 63

Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Tools 63

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. billion by 2022.

EdTech 113

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 113

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Since engagement is something students have to provide, and teachers can not just apply engagement to any lesson, it is important to create a learning experience that is engaging, both in the digital and the physical classroom. Other programs fail to provide appropriate digital resources for students and learning goals.

Blended Learning 103

Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 103

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Since education has been focusing more on adapting itself to its students, rather than students learning to adapt to its educators, there’s never been a better time to re-examine strategies ranging from classroom pedagogy to campus-wide technology initiatives. Digital is King.

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Kaplan E-rate Smartphone Mobility 106

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.

Education 202

Education Learning Software Knewton 202

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

. — Forsyth News Guilderland (NY) Central School District will receive $531,447 from the state’s Smart Schools Bond Act, of which the lion’s share—$498,723—will go for classroom technology, including buying new Chromebooks for each middle- and high-school student. What are the one-, two-, and five-year goals for terms of digital learning? ?

Chromebook 40

Chromebook E-rate BYOD Online Assessments 40

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 21, 2016

In spring 2015, for example, we piloted a transparency program that supported 15 districts in rural Virginia in comparing their speeds and pricing and negotiating with service providers to make upgrades. The result was 500% more bandwidth for only 15% more cost, allowing these districts to meet a connectivity level of 200 kbps per student.

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Tools Meeting 40

Education Superhighway

APRIL 15, 2016

Standing in front of a classroom full of expectant students, waiting (and waiting) for students’ learning applications to load is a frustrating and time-consuming experience for any teacher and why robust and reliable classroom connectivity is critical for teachers and students. Are your schools getting a good deal?

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Broadband E-rate Comparison Digital Learning 40

Learning in Hand

APRIL 5, 2017

Jonathan Wylie is a Digital Learning Consultant at Grand Wood AEA. For each of his 10 ideas, Jonathan shared stories, quotes, examples, and videos. Big Idea #1 Technology is integrated well when it is used as a tool to enhance teaching and learning. For example, change seating so that you can see students’ screens.

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Technology E-rate Digital Citizenship Professional Learning 58

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. A pilot program would test the use of tablets in combining online education with classroom teaching in a prison setting. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / WASHINGTON, D.C. Jerard Briscoe is away at school.

Tablets 159

Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 159

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). The Flipped Classroom". Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Here’s more about her journey to connect all Texas students to digital learning opportunities, and her top tips to help educators invest in technology funding to improve student engagement. Even though I only had one computer in the classroom, I could design activities around that computer.

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Policies Technology Advocacy E-rate 49

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 15, 2023

Powered by Lightspeed – How Hays CISD Empowers Staff to Support Student Safety, Wellness, & Engagement Hays Consolidated Independent School District’s safety, IT, and classroom leaders join Lightspeed for the next webinar in the Powered by Lightspeed Series. Don’t miss out on discovering the impact of these changes firsthand.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52