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Crunch the Numbers—New Data on Student Tech Use; Chromebook Predictions; And the Impact of Pandemic Relief Funds

eSchool News

. “Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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PowerSchool to Launch Connected Intelligence, First Fully Managed Data-as-a-Service Platform for K-12 Schools

eSchool News

Partnering with Snowflake via the Powered by Snowflake program, Connected Intelligence by PowerSchool is the first fully managed K-12 Education focused Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform. Spend fewer resources managing data access and storage. Store education data securely and in one place.

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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Kajeet ’s ConnectEdNow campaign , announced in June, aims to make broadband access more affordable by providing students with portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices, a $200 mobile device subsidy and discounted data plans from Verizon , T-Mobile and other LTE providers. Broadband access still is limited in some rural areas.

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Often Overlooked In Rankings, Hispanic-Serving Colleges Embrace A New Metric For Success

Edsurge

But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture. Don’t Ivy Leagues produce upward mobility for their low-income students? “If Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients.

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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Introducing Whitsby and Penny Reinart 00:00:31:38 – 00:01:01:45 Vicki Davis: Whitsby is a mobile-based PD platform.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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