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Why K–12 Districts Should Use HCI to Improve Their Data Centers

EdTech Magazine

Why K–12 Districts Should Use HCI to Improve Their Data Centers. K–12 schools need powerful data centers now more than ever as their infrastructures feel the increasing weight of new technology integrations, data analytics initiatives and the rising number of personalized devices. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 01/31/2019 - 09:42.

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Schools Need Robust Networks to Support Internet of Things

EdTech Magazine

Additionally, IoT improves data collection for better business decisions, location tracking, asset tracking and weather monitoring. Similar to the rise of mobility and one-to-one computing programs, IoT will undoubtedly impact IT infrastructure. Like Olathe Public Schools, districts can plan for greater network density and capacity.

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XPRIZE: The Real Winners? Underserved Adult Learners

Digital Promise

This translates to limited upward mobility for them and their children; children of parents with low literacy skills have a 72 percent chance of being at the lowest reading levels themselves, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which diminishes the worker pipeline for the future.

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Protect, Deter, Recover: Data Risks in K12 Schools #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Protect, Deter, Recover: Data Risks in K12 Schools SXSWedu 2017 Panel Hosted by Absolute: Empower K-12 staff, parents and community by learning best-practices for digital citizenship, including device safety and security, cyberbullying and Internet crime. Data Risks Are we teaching data backup? Teach good data stewardship.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

Edsurge

There are publications like major reports, white papers and case studies too. According to Van Malderen, they also receive usage data that lets them know who has been reading what, how much time is being spent on a specific book, and which chapters of a book were more popular.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

NeverEndingSearch

In 2014, ALA Washington’s Office for Information and Technology Policy (OITP) developed a helpful white paper to examine CIPA’s decade-long impact, Fencing Out Knowledge t h a t d e l i n e a t e d f o u r recommendations t o ALA: Increase awareness of the spectrum of filtering choices.

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Mastering the Education Age with Google

EdTechSandyK

Monica Martinez TCEA Director of Professional Development Google Certified Administrator mmartinez@tcea.org Bing TV Commercials - Information Overload- [link] Web 3.0 - This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. NetVibes), intelligent search and behavioral advertising, among other things.

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