Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For its second impact fund, Salesforce is doubling the size of its pockets to support start-up companies working to solve problems in education, workforce training and climate science, and to create economic opportunities for minority and underrepresented populations. There’s also Trailhead, its online platform for employee training.

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Digital Divide Education Company Training 131

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

One example is New Jersey, where schools and districts were required to submit to the state “a survey weekly of how many students lacked devices and/or WiFi,” according to Erica Hartman, Director of Technology Integration at New Jersey’s Morris School District. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 142

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

AI Tools for Teachers: Meet Curipod, AI Lesson Plan Builder 00;06;00;13 – 00;06;09;25 Vicki Davis And so, Amanda, can you give us some examples of some AI powered educational tools and programs and how they've been effective in helping students learn? What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

This early report represents a 19 percent response rate so far and includes data from nearly 500 districts across 49 states and covers a wide range of both urban and rural regions. When researchers diced the survey data up by income, they discovered less than a half hour difference in school time between low- and high-income districts.

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Survey Digital Divide Laptops Data 115

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. What education can be delivered on cell phone hot spots… keeping limited data in mind?

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LMS Digital Divide Blended Learning Survey 217

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

In December, the district won a $15,000 grant from Cellcom, a local cellphone company. The following three resources can help students and families realize the powering of digital learning at home. . “You can’t just send them home with an assignment or some research to do, because they have no access.”

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Resources E-rate Broadband Digital Divide 120

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

If blockchain records follow learners throughout their lives, asked San José State University professor Roxana Marachi in a recent interview with The Markup, what would that mean for people’s data privacy, and their right to be forgotten ? It’s one example of what proposals for a coming “metaverse” could mean for teachers and students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automation of grading, attendance tracking, and data analysis facilitates efficient classroom management. While the integration of AI in K-12 education presents immense opportunities, it is essential to address concerns related to data privacy, equity, and teacher training. Let’s look at some AI in education examples.

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Education Adaptive Learning Personalized Learning Gamification 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. That’s why, for example, 92.9 Photo: Chris Berdik.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

There is also a growing need for quality SEL data to ensure that educators are serving students’ SEL needs. Teachers will continue to embrace AI for analyzing classroom data and grading tools. Tara Ketner, Director of Client Success, Aperture Education. Jeff Rubenstein, VP Product Strategy, Kaltura.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Tips for using data to secure more funding and support for mental health and safety programs. Not only is the data incomplete in terms of getting responses from the parents, but also incomplete, as you describe that it’s just not deep enough and what the problem is. But it also created some data challenges.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

Make sure your tech stack is set up to support fundamentals such as student data privacy, emerging challenges like AI policy-making, and ongoing critical mental health and safety concerns. But it also created some data challenges. As proxy data, and the challenges it created for your district? Is the data accurate?

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EdTech Survey Learning Data 52

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Tips for using data to secure more funding and support for mental health and safety programs. Not only is the data incomplete in terms of getting responses from the parents, but also incomplete, as you describe that it’s just not deep enough and what the problem is. But it also created some data challenges.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

For example: These teachers are far more likely than their less-confident counterparts to report daily use of digital curricula, learning management systems, and parent communication tools. . Dashboards for student data (16 percent vs. 27 percent.). Enrollment Trends in Pre-K: What They Could Mean for Your Company.

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Survey Analysis Digital Divide Report 66

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

In Connecticut, for example, public schools as well as other organizations receive broadband services from the CEN. By providing these examples of state leadership to support technology in education, though, states can work towards bridging the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper and online resources after shuttering schools because of coronavirus. She received her first response on the morning of April 9 and opened it immediately.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Dr. Abshire pointed out that the challenges for today’s district leaders include protecting students’ data and other information, filtering content, and establishing acceptable use policies for students and teachers. is one of the nation’s leading experts in E-rate and is passionate in her work to close the digital divide.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Privacy and Student Data During these pressing circumstances, many educators are curating and sharing digital tools, strategies, and tips for remote teaching with their networks. With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing.

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Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 211

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

There is a lower cost in using short-term debt rather than going out and getting a high-interest lease with a [laptop] vendor, for example,” says Bart Hildreth, a professor at Georgia State University who studies municipal finances. Here the digital divide for access is now almost zero,” Porter says of his Chromebook program.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

When “families can speak in their native tongue, they feel more connected to school—no longer a guest, but part owner, like they have stock in the company,” said Dr. Van Heukelum. Translation services, for example, need to meet every child’s needs, even for the least-spoken languages, like Farsi.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. Data collection for planning. Data collection for planning. Data collection for planning. An example might include the collaborative activity Chalk Talk.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2023 K-12 Hero Awards program is dedicated to recognizing the country’s best examples of K-12 success using innovative education technologies. To meet this challenge, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in the summer of 2020 announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC).

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Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 15, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. But it also created some data challenges. Thank you.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Education Data Initiative , enrollment peaked in the year 2010 at 21.02 We have some really great examples of billionaires and geniuses who do not have a college degree. Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. million students.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The number has fluctuated as cases rise across the country, but throughout this fall pandemic semester, between 40% and 60% of students have been enrolled in districts that offer only remote learning, according to a tracker maintained by the company Burbio. We are still starved for data on what this all means.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Others incorporate personal data like the child's name and offer options for choosing settings and avatars, providing unique narratives for each child. As a professor of reading and children’s development, specializing in children’s digital tools, I've researched what works and what doesn't when it comes to coaching children to read.

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EdTech Company Digital Divide Trends 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For the last few years, the local government — with schools, the telecommunications company EPB of Chattanooga, and nonprofits — has run “HCS EdConnect,” a program through which schools give Chromebooks, tablets and free training on the skills needed to use smart technology and the modern internet system. The area is something of an outlier.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 101

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students. public schools.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you've failed | Troy Hunt → Folks in edtech may want to bookmark this one. Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Cybersecurity Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center → This is not easy (though I did get 10/10). This is ALSO true for edtech.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Data breach disclosure 101: How to succeed after you've failed | Troy Hunt → Folks in edtech may want to bookmark this one. Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Cybersecurity Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center → This is not easy (though I did get 10/10). This is ALSO true for edtech.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies. We provide some kind of example that you can survive outside that system” of federal aid. Learn Capital is closing on a seed investment vehicle dubbed “ LearnStart ,” which has already invested in a Finnish company, 3DBear. Want to catch some highlights?

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 99

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

5G promises reliability, lightning-fast speeds, and much higher data capacities. The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

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). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” “Will Data Error Threaten For-Profit Regulation ?” No mention that these are backed by big companies and venture capitalists. ” That’s Gail Heriot. ” asks Inside Higher Ed.

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