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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

Edsurge

Does the study design provide a compelling comparison group? It is essential to understand the comparison group (sometimes called the control group) because the strength of a research claim hinges on the extent to which there is a plausible comparison group. Who did the research? It is important to follow the money.

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How Publicly Available Broadband Data Can Help Us Close the Connectivity Gap

Education Superhighway

A recent update to our free school broadband price comparison tool , makes it easy for service providers to see the landscape of the connectivity gap so they may identify areas where they can help close it. And in recent months, data has been essential to our defense of the E-rate program. ENSURING NATIONWIDE DATA ACCURACY.

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AI in Schools: The Bias Dilemma

eSpark

OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and the Dall-E image generator, has been particularly scrutinized since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The company has had to address bias issues on the fly as its users surface unforeseen issues in their outputs, ranging from political ideologies to ethnic stereotypes.

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Groundbreaking Educational Video Conferencing Platform InSpace Raises $6M in Seed Funding

eSchool News

Burlington, VT (June 8, 2021) – InSpace , a collaborative video conferencing platform that replicates personal interaction between students and teachers in virtual classrooms, today announcedthat the company has closed on $6 million in two rounds of seed funding. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, with engineers in the U.S.

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How EducationSuperHighway’s fiber program helps school districts identify affordable fiber solutions

Education Superhighway

The FCC is helping schools make the necessary investments in their broadband infrastructure through December 2014’s Second E-rate Modernization order , which provides public school districts and libraries with new options for funding fiber special construction projects. According to our data, however, nearly 12% of U.S.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports. So we formed an interstate group.

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