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The cost of not investing rural high speed Internet: Why one school upgraded to fiber

Education Superhighway

The school district couldn’t cover the cost of non-recurring construction to build fiber to their most rural school with just E-rate. Jim knew that Llano paid a high price for the existing Internet, but once he visited Compare & Connect K-12 , he had the data to prove it. What are the costs of not upgrading?

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them?

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

You know, there's a lot more to that when it comes to the biases of the data and important things like that. What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI? So the lack of data transparency really concerns me. 00;11;23;22 – 00;11;32;11 Dan Fitzpatrick It's going to be huge. Have You Asked It?

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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

When the data ran out – which typically happened two weeks into every month – the supervising teacher Debra Crow often found herself traveling to a McDonald’s, 12 miles from the school. It also means the school can finally open its robotics lab this coming year. The challenge.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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Deep learning

Learning with 'e's

She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. The blockbuster science fiction movie Minority Report featured gestural computing, targeted advertising through biometric data scanning and augmented reality technologies. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.