Education Superhighway

JUNE 21, 2017

We are happy to share that Darby students are now connected to digitally-rich classrooms. Leveraged E-rate modernization. For more district stories, follow us on Twitter and Facebook and make sure to subscribe below. Check out the three steps that led to Darby’s success: Calculated their bandwidth requirements.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2011

For principals, experiments in open communication typically begin with Twitter (www.twitter.com) and Facebook (www.facebook.com). Twitter and Facebook provide principals with real-time tools that are far superior to traditional forms of communication. Ferriter, W, Ramsden, J, & Sheninger, E. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Christine Durso knew she was onto something when she saw how easily her 16-year-old daughter was able to work around a Facebook web filter installed by her school. She basically just created her own browser using Facebook.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

In late 2015, Education SuperHighway received a $20 million grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Foundation, the charitable group of the chief executive of Facebook and his wife, a pediatrician. Do you think schools are using the new transparency provided by E-rate to negotiate better deals? Absolutely.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 7, 2013

For those educators using Kindle e-books in their classrooms and for graduate school, this feature makes highlighting much more useful as an active reading strategy. It allows you to review with book rating, type book review text and share your review on Twitter and Facebook.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. We also have evidence here in Pennsylvania, that at least one district claims they meet the staffing guideline because they point to a full-time classroom teacher who just happens to hold a school library certification. 2021, July).

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

We’ve discussed the merits and utility of video games in the classroom before, so we won’t beleaguer the point. Videos are probably a more effective way to introduce you to a game than some kind of app overview page with nebulous, consumer-driven ratings. 50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning in 2015. 0 likes. .

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You will want to share the following with your classroom teacher partners and your school’s edtech leader: Best of Breed 2016 (categorized favorites). Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). Check out their Top App Lists. Follow them @BalefireLabs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

None of these have to do with learning, of course, and inevitably are insufficient to smooth over the challenges that arise as digital tools enter classroom spaces. That is to say, the data show that in-person environments nearly always have higher rates of bullying, harassment, and abuse/predation than digital environments.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. Unported License.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The recordings of recent FutureofEducation.com shows are posted: David Loertscher on Library 2.0 , Gina Bianchini on Mightybell , Tim Wilson on Redirect , Peter Cookson on a Children''s Education Bill of Rights , and an iPads in the Classroom report. The average time students spent on Facebook was 106 minutes per day.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

You can keep up with ALA and other library-related news and information by subscribing to the free award-winning weekly e-newsletter AL Direct at [link]. Thursday, May 29th at 12:30pm CDT in Norfolk, NE Discover and Evaluate Awesome Apps, Websites and Games for Learning , Your classroom is tech ready for digital learning.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 28, 2011

So my wife, my buddy from Marching Mizzou, and I e-mailed back and forth to see if this thing was possible, and could we do it for a super-small amount of money. Well we found an open-source search engine that could serve as the platform, discussed social sharing and teacher ratings. A real rating from a real teacher.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

By the time the South Burlington High School senior was arrested, federal investigators had counted eight threats involving eight email accounts, a virtual private network and three Facebook accounts. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. If not, why not?

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

By the time the South Burlington High School senior was arrested, federal investigators had counted eight threats involving eight email accounts, a virtual private network and three Facebook accounts. Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | Windows 10 Cloud appears to be Microsoft's attempt to compete. If not, why not?

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Doug Levin

JULY 31, 2017

From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 6, 2011

It is turning out to be one of my most successful posts of the year, and not just because of the hit rate. Some complain that they don't have enough time to blog, and are tired when they get home from a hard day in the classroom. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Combined, this enables students to share and develop their ideas together, as if they were in the same classroom. When training our teachers around new technology, they do an incredible job of incorporating it into their classrooms,” he said in a release. “It With the RP653 IFPs, guesswork is eliminated.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Photo: Meghan E. The shift has coincided with improved test scores and graduation rates. “I And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. What is personalized learning?

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Whether you consider people sharing billions of popular memes and photos on platforms like Facebook or Tumblr, or teachers swapping syllabi and lesson plans with each other, all of these materials are automatically and fully copyrighted by their creators and sharing them is illegal without a license granting you permission to share.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Showing the Algorithms Behind New York City Services | New York Times → Algorithms can decide where kids go to school, how often garbage is picked up, which police precincts get the most officers, where building code inspections should be targeted, and even what metrics are used to rate a teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Please consider liking our Learning Revolution Facebook page (it''s not our primary method of communicating or organizing, but we think it will help bring awareness to what we and our partners are doing). Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. For more information, click here.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” ” Udacity has updated its online "classroom." Completion Rates.” ” LOL, okay.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via The Atlantic : “ Virtual Classrooms Can Be as Unequal as Real Ones.” they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” ” More on the topic on his website , e-Literate. ” Via WYFF4.com

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

But.truth is, the US government isn't the early adopter here; Amazon, Google and Facebook are really the front-line developers of the surveillance state." Tagged on: March 8, 2017 Nevada bill puts cameras in all special education classrooms | Reno-Gazette Journal → A bill proposed by state Sen.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” .” Via Education Week : “ ESSA Point Man Jason Botel to Leave Education Dept.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

In early March, they joined a new, rapidly growing Facebook group called Arizona Educators United. In recent years, educators have been blamed by politicians and parents for an array of social problems, from bankrupt municipal pensions to low graduation rates in poor neighborhoods. Photo by E. Photo by E. Weekly Update.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and Tumblr played huge roles in disseminating political information during the past election season.

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Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? ” Via the AP : “ District of Columbia Mayor Muriel E. ” Just grand that Facebook is running a bunch of media literacy and digital training courses for community colleges.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. ” Via the AP : “The sponsor of one of the nation’s largest online charter schools says it’s cutting that tie, which could halt the Ohio e-school’s operations for its roughly 12,000 students within days.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. “A Response to Larry Berger’s ‘Confession’ on Personalized Learning ” by New Classrooms’ Joel Rose.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 10, 2018

Via Edsurge : “Why the FCC ’s E-rate Makes Funding High-Speed Internet a Slow Crawl.” “The Saga of Ohio ’s Embattled E-School Is Coming to an End,” writes Education Week’s Ben Herold. Google has updated its pseudo-LMS, Classroom. Didn’t Happen, Agency Now Says.”

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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. ” These colleges no longer offer federal loans because of students’ high default rates. Small world).

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Private School With Low Vaccination Rates.” ” Via The Verge : “A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads.” Sponsored content on Edsurge , paid for by the Gates Foundation , this week wants to tell you “How Faculty Can ‘ Click ’ Their Way to a More Inclusive Classroom.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. Buzzfeed on the Parkland school shooting survivors : “‘It was like a war in the classroom. The stories out of Facebook just keep getting worse. It was a nightmare.’” What are these jobs?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Via The Daily Beast : “ Palmer Luckey : The Facebook Near-Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump’s Meme Machine.” Well, one thing’s for certain: between this and Peter Thiel on its board, Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency. ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.” ” But hey.

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