Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

I mean the basics of how to use the tech tools that are driving learning. This raises the question: How exactly should schools invest in technology to keep up? Address the digital divide. Think about how major companies provide substantial professional development for their employees.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

With 90 percent of her North Dakota district leaders graduates of the local school system, Dr. Louters said professional learning for board leaders is vital in helping all understand “implicit bias” and being conscious of its extensive effects on administrative decisions. Visit classlink.com to learn more.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2016

The digital divide is a reality for three out of four American families, meaning approximately eight million individuals under the age of 18 are living without internet access. As a starting point, other companies must recognize the connection between digital inclusion and business success. The good news?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. Helping Students Overcome Trauma In this course, you will explore the different types of trauma and how they affect students’ behavior and academic performance.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Baker’s experience was reflected in the results of a survey sent by BrightBytes, an education data company, from April to June 15. And nearly 30 percent responded similarly when asked whether they received clear expectations for how to support their child’s remote learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

While there are still challenges associated with the digital divide and access to technology, this gap is shrinking all the time, especially with smartphones widening access to digital content and software. That’s because this allows companies to onboard multiple new recruits and train many employees at the same time.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Our society is divided into two parts. One believes in the education system, and the other believes that it is a waste of money and effort. Bill Gates dropped out of college at the age of 20 and made a revolutionizing company, “Microsoft”. How to Make Education Affordable? According to Forbes Advisor, there is around $1.75

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Recognition that the digital divide prevents academic progress has prompted colleges to do more to connect students with tech tools. In the midst of these trends, we wanted to hear how academic innovation leaders are thinking and feeling about higher education right now.

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Flipped Classroom Course Digital Divide Trends 206

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

In Washington state, where Navas is the director of the Equity in Education Coalition (EEC), many families either didn’t know how to access the tech support provided by districts and companies like Apple, or didn’t feel comfortable because of language barriers. So EEC launched its own call-in center. Related: Who ya gonna call?

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Digital Divide Learning Trends Accessibility 86

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

As many experts will point out, DEI initiatives are prone to fail when they aren’t getting at the crux of the issue—existing systemic processes and challenges that prevent promising solutions and DEI-focused policies from being successful. And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Beyond providing technology, there is hope that Biden’s focus on supporting teachers extends to providing training to ensure that they know how to implement the latest technology and instructional practices effectively. We’ve also heard from teachers and parents that they didn’t know how to use these tools well.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Decentralized Systems Fans of cryptocurrency and Web3 champion the idea of decentralization—freeing commerce and other activities from government oversight and regulation.

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Education Groups Robotics Course 175

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

Nearly half of low-income districts distributed paper packets of worksheets to families while more than three-fourths of wealthier school districts distributed everything digitally. This digital divide had enormous consequences for what instruction meant. We spent a lot of time, as your data illustrated, reviewing content.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

And I think we're probably in the mid-nineties version of AI at the moment, and how it's going to how is going to benefit learning and education as a system ultimately, I guess, is for anybody's guess at the moment. Dan developed Prep, which is all about how to prep the machine in prompt prompted to get the desired output.

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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? But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. The thread on this tweet has the details.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

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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). 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. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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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). 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. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

education system. We need to help educators and students better understand the power grid system, how it impacts them and the changes that are coming, including renewables, storage, and electric vehicles. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 141

TeacherCast

AUGUST 27, 2015

If you’re a teacher, chances are you were taught how to teach. You likely didn’t get training on how to be an IT guru. Some technically inclined teachers are finding and configuring their own classroom management systems, for instance, or trying to make multiple apps work together that weren’t designed to.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland recognized the need and became a strong advocate for Hazel Health, a telehealth company that provides mental health services to students at no cost to families.  Now in its third year, the DLC and its innovative funding structure has become a model program emulated by other education systems in the nation.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Education Department is asking schools and districts to take measures to protect data and reinforce IT systems, and if any schools were victimized, to contact the agency’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center for help. Many want technology firms to do more, but they are divided on how to balance free speech and safety issues online.

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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

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. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 88

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

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. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. — Catherine Cahn, CEO, Twig Education.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Successful classroom technology should challenge and support every type of learner without widening the digital divide that’s often found in low-income and rural districts. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

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EdTech Digital Divide Education Future Ready 52

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.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Successful classroom technology should challenge and support every type of learner without widening the digital divide that’s often found in low-income and rural districts. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

EdTech 40

EdTech Digital Divide Education Future Ready 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Alabama will issue manufacturing industry certifications across its two-year college system in an effort to create a better educational pipeline to jobs in manufacturing and transportation.”

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The company also announced today availability of the Celly Android App for free download on Google Play. “We What I love so much about Celly is that anyone can set up a cell in literally a minute, anytime, anyplace, easily tell people how to get on it, they sign up in ten seconds, and it''s done – you''re linked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. What’s unusual about James Lick’s Chromebook program isn’t the laptops themselves, but how they were paid for. San Jose mayor Sam Liccardo also faults the state’s hyper-local control of its education system. “We

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Technology Chromebook Laptops iPad 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Federal licenses to use spectrum that can carry mobile internet are a hot commodity, coveted by big telecommunications companies with money to spend at the periodic spectrum auctions conducted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). We have this perfect alignment of stars. That led them to see the potential for a statewide solution.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 82

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