MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2018

In an open letter, along with another activist shareholder, they called on the company to study digital distraction among youth and to make it easier to limit young people’s use. Her policy is simple: “Phones/devices must be turned off and not visible during class time.” No way, no how. ” Embrace diversity.

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Laptops Classroom Policies Survey 54

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, for its remote learning classes, the Paris School of Business is using software called Nestor to track students’ eye movement and facial expressions through their laptop webcams. Her firm helps companies develop technology for young people that is compliant with safety and security concerns. “If

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Learning Analytics Data Software Laptops 321

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

But neither the endorsement of powerful entities nor the enactment of new education policies assures that the push to create a skills-based education system will run like, er, clockwork. I haven’t met a parent that wants their child to be socialized by a laptop, or an AI symbiote,” he says.

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Classroom Learning Company Assessment 214

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If your company aims to minimize its environmental impact, perhaps as part of an ESG policy (Environment, Social, and Governance), LED and laser business projectors are an excellent choice. Lamp-free projectors are also more environmentally friendly, as they don’t rely on mercury lightbulbs for illumination.

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Company Meeting Conference Video 150

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Instead, it will be absorbed into SIIA’s existing public policy division, which advocates for legislation on behalf of its members. Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 155

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Government officials and agencies are at the very base when it comes to shaping education policies and allocating funding for educational initiatives, which can be key to scaling up local plans and programs. To effectively implement interactive content in the classroom, it is important to have a complete hardware and software solution.

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Education Software Trends Outcomes 315

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both.

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Digital Divide Broadband Report Accessibility 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class. Most had the lecture slides up on their laptops or iPads, or were using paper notebooks and pens.

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Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 206

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. Given that many children were acquiring iPads for personal use, some schools adopted a Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD) Policy. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With the clock ticking here and across the country, technology companies and other vendors are pushing products and services they claim can help speed up student recovery — and urging districts to invest in them now. million would cover touchscreens, cameras, microphones and speakers, as well as laptops and training for teachers.

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Elementary Training Laptops Technology 113

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000 worth of Kajeet Education Broadband Solutions, including unlimited student data plans, access to Kajeet Sentinel ® platform and devices like, WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, routers and LTE-embedded Chromebooks, laptops, and tablets. Qualifying organizations have until March 11, 2022, to apply.

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Libraries Digital Divide Broadband Software 98

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2020

After all, most students carry smartphones attached to the campus Wi-Fi network, or use laptops in class that connect to campus hotspots. The university is using a data analytics service developed by SAS, , an analytics and software company. And she worried about the potential for privacy problems as well.

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Smartphone Data System Laptops 193

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Mursion does something no other VR training company does: include live “Sim Specialists” in each training session. He also sneaks in a few tips for edtech startups seeking to increase investments and grow their companies. Whether in healthcare, education or leadership, we try to develop empathy that reflects real-world experiences.

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Training EdTech Company Laptops 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

Colleges and school systems are hustling under stressful conditions to develop appropriate policies for emergency online learning. These emergency policies need to be developed in direct relationship to the enduring problem in education: inequality. Access to content. Sign up here for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Accessibility Policies Laptops Libraries 98

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

nearly one in 10 families (9%) do not have access to a laptop, desktop or tablet at home. This is but the next step on a path of further geographic expansion driven by our desire to deliver thoughtful and equitable internet access and mobility solutions wherever Kajeet can build upon our successes to date.”. In the U.K., About Kajeet.

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Digital Divide Mobility Software Chromebook 72

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2020

militant tardy or absence policies, particularly ones that involve embarrassing our students, e.g. locking them out of the classroom after class has begun. We can already see some of this at place outside of educational institutions in the new, workplace surveillance tools that many companies are adopting. Who's cheating the boss.

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Software Company Data Examples 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

These days, fingerprint scanners and cameras are regular parts of school life—on the ceilings watching students walk, and on their laptops analyzing their facial expressions. And cameras have moved from hallways to classrooms, with technology and security companies actively marketing them to schools.

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Kickboard Laptops Social Media Data 116

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

My day normally starts at the breakfast table with a cup of coffee in one hand, my cat circling the table below, and a laptop in front of me—all subjects vying for my morning attention. This is also the time when I catch up on updates in the world of higher education, and specifically around my profession of academic advising.

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Software Policies Laptops Meeting 155

Vizor

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It involves multiple individuals, paperwork, processes, and its own policies. Without, them the productivity of the company suffers. In an instance where a student breaks a laptop, there isn’t a problem because another laptop is waiting for him or her. Managing repairs in any organization is a complex task.

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Chromebook Laptops Trends System 52

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, all students in grades 4-12 receive a Macbook Air laptop with home Internet access. Compatible with MacBook Air laptops. Pricing, licensing, and contracting policies, including experience with or openness to performance-based contracting, if any. Web-based preferred.

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Study Laptops Competency Based Learning Policies 120

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

In particular, many students, for whom these efforts intend to protect, are still unaware of their rights when it comes to how their online footprints are tracked—whether by third-party companies or sometimes the school districts themselves. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 116

Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. Tagged on: August 17, 2017 Do Laptops Help Learning? state-level policies relating to open education. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Social Media Data Policies 150

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m. For some schools, that’s a small leap.

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Broadband Flipped Classroom Online Learning Smartphone 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Rolling cabinets stocked with dozens of the laptops sit in classrooms where teachers assign them to students for everything from researching hereditary DNA to writing essays. What’s unusual about James Lick’s Chromebook program isn’t the laptops themselves, but how they were paid for. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Technology Chromebook Laptops iPad 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Using wireless presentation tools by Vivi , an education-focused company founded in Australia, Gunn was able to mirror her tablet screen on the classroom screen and play YouTube clips directly through a hardwired receiver without slowing down the school’s wifi—or her students’ work. “I really needed a quick process.”

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Tools Laptops Tablets Video 137

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Eavesdropping / Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) Attacks What they are: It’s likely that you sometimes use a school laptop or mobile device to gain internet access via Wi-Fi networks in public places like coffee shops or airports. Is there a company address listed and are all the usual legal policies displayed and legitimate?

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Data Software Laptops Accessibility 130

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

Today, students are charged with shaping policy and fighting injustice, and have endless information, and misinformation, pushed to them. Today, students are charged with shaping policy and fighting injustice. The need for thoughtfulness in our technocentric world extends beyond the creation and use of new tools.

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Education iPad Policies Social Media 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360 , a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded and led a wide range of digital companies over the past twenty years, and the list of business and charitable boards on which he serves is long. But the phones aren’t the problem.

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Study Assistive Technology Data Course 146

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

These include additional teachers to enable smaller, distanced classes; more bus drivers to allow students to spread out; air filtration systems; plexiglass; hand sanitizer; and hotspots and laptops for students. The Philadelphia district is using a hybrid learning model.

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Policies System Report Laptops 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Data’s influence on modern education is immense; it drives policies, impacts funding—it even affects decisions about which tools and services edtech companies create for educators. Below, Rambo shares her thoughts on education innovation, including her newest tool for edtech companies.

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Trends EdTech Data Tools 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

The report highlights a number of steps that states are taking, including creating one-to-one laptop programs, increasing statewide broadband networks and making Wi-Fi hotspots more readily available. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 79

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Access to connectivity is vital to a successful classroom BYOD policy, so these issues are largely taken care of by an institution.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 88

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

The e-books will be readable on e-readers, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Panel for Educational Policy approved the three-year contract on Wednesday for the Department of Education, who could spend as much as $4.3 million in the first year of the contract. .

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Laptops Smartphone Tablets Libraries 40

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Companies like Amazon and Facebook have systems that continually respond to how users interact with their apps to make the user experience easier. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) The discussion took place at the recent ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia in front of a live audience.

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Education Course Facebook System 101

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Microsoft has long had a beef with Google—even if the company won’t always admit it today—dating back to the “Scroogled” advertisement campaign that critiqued the search giant’s Chromebooks and privacy policies. based company again took a swipe at the search giant in today’s announcement to its educational offerings.

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Microsoft Chromebook Pearson Comparison 72

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

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