eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

thousand schools with the minimum connectivity goal to give students equal access to digital learning opportunities–a figure schools can definitely be thankful for. Monitoring software. These efforts now provide 39.2 million students, 2.6 million teachers, and 73.9

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

By 2016, most schools and districts were in a buying mode, scooping up vast amounts of digital curriculum, but not always with the necessary tactical maps behind them, or a plan to administer cost negotiations with the thousands of publishers or a proper vetting of the purchased or custom home-built digital learning objects.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

There are many so-called blended programs that do not meet the definition, but schools use them anyway. One of the worst offenses of bad blended learning programs is simply not creating a strong blend between digital and non-digital learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

He declined to disclose Top Hat’s current revenues, only sharing that it is “definitely” in the eight figures (between $10 million and $100 million) and grew 40 percent in 2020 over the previous year. What I love doing is really helping to change an industry that has been doing one thing one way for a long time,” says Rohrlich.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The speakers all pressed that digital learning, and in particular online charter schools, are falling short for students and teachers. There has been a huge explosion of online learning and edtech in our schools… and online education is privatizing education through for-profit companies and their apps,” said Haimson.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Inspired by the breakout podcast Serial, four years ago two digital learning leaders at the University of Central Florida created their own podcast—focused on online learning instead of true crime. If there's one thing we've learned, it's that people are interested. Murder mysteries and online learning.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 16, 2020

A caveat – we offer a solution of our own—which is subject to scrutiny against your Learning Management System. If you haven’t made the choice—we have decided to list 5 pointers to consider before zeroing in on learning management software. Every business learning management system is different.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education. Kasey Bell, a digital learning consultant and former Texas teacher, choose to go for the former: “AI [is] defined as machines with the ability or intelligence to complete tasks on their own and make intelligent decisions.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 19, 2018

And, of course, there is plenty of open source software for those interested in doing this kind of work, including the causaleffect package for R and the DAGitty package for R (also available in-browser). What would “do more” mean in the context of learning materials? A better metaphor. My deep-seated discomfort with PDF.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Honest Conversation. Overcoming Barriers. Innovative Approaches.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”).

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2017

With the advent of interactive projectors, improved light source and connectivity options, and software tools that take projection to new heights, it is an exciting time to be a teacher and a student. Most displays offer multiple HDMI ports to support multiple high-definition A/V devices. Modern Projectors and their Technology.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2019

So, I would definitely shy away from using it as a tool for improving your school or getting feedback about your school.”. Digital Learning & Leadership is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net where you can share, learn, and discuss ideas and best practices to enhance teaching with technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. If some of the heavy lifting is done by the technology, it makes the relationship between teachers and students more central to the learning process.”.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Summer edtech camps with Tri-City United educators facilitating the sessions led to pilot projects with digital learning and instruction with this past summer’s professional developing moving truly into personalized learning. But we didn’t just launch into it right off the bat.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

It's also crucial that when you introduce a new digital learning tool into your classroom, you make sure it will be accessible to your students. That means that a student with a disability (cognitive, physical, or learning) will be able to engage and interact with the content in the same way a student without a disability can.

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Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

"Facilitate" learning - you were probably both taught from a "sage on the stage" model of learning and if you are my age you also were probably taught to teach that way as well. Personalization and differentiation is tricky in a traditional school structure but it can be possible and is definitely beneficial to ALL students.

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techlearning

APRIL 17, 2018

The Summit coincided with commentary in the February 28, 2018 edition of EdWeek that identified personalized learning as one of the things Education Secretary Betsy DeVos should prioritize for her second year in office. Become The COO. ]

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

. • A height-adjustable, capacitive 47-inch interactive table that is ideal for group learning activities. MimioView™ document camera for creating vibrant lessons with high-definition images or video. MimioStudio classroom software for integrating all the classroom technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Building on my years as a product and instructional designer, I’ve created a set of design principles for digital learning products for K-12 students with English as a second language. Use consistent icons if you have types of scaffolds—I always look for the book icon to see a definition of the word.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful. If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). This definition and description of your typical LMS leads to an important question: Who is the learning management system for? The New York Times.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 7, 2016

A learning management system, or “LMS” is defined as “a digital learning system” that “manages all of the aspects of the learning process” (Amit K, 2015). This definition and description of your typical LMS leads to an important question: Who is the learning management system for? The New York Times.

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System LMS Schoology Edmodo 28

Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2020

E-learning has now become the primary source of instruction — but this is new territory for a number of teachers. The sudden pivot to digital learning has thrown the education system into flux. Here are seven tips for making the digital teaching experience more fruitful for everyone involved: 1. Communicate often.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

-Certified SMART Board Compatibility: Supports SMART ECP for controlling projector power, volume and input from the SMART Board; integrated solution offers SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, as well as SMART Ink tools, which allow teachers to create engaging and interactive learning experiences.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2014, a student data privacy controversy sparked around the practices of a new digital learning company inBloom , which then kick-started a debate on student privacy and data storing and sharing that has not yet abated. Controversy over weakened laws. So who is responsible? Create clear governance policies.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. Students: General short answers: What tools, software, and technology seemed to be important? What tools, software, and technology not available could have been useful? What tools, software, and technology not available could have been useful?

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

Then you need orientation to the process of leafing through the book going forward (in digital it may be down and usually is in news online), the use of any table of contents, preface, citations and the like. Looking up definitions is manual. They miss words that could so easily be digital pop-up definitions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

billion on education software each year, according to estimates from the Software and Information Industry Association. Yet it can be tedious to manually keep track of how students interact with different pieces of software—or whether these tools are even being used. Clever claims usage in more than 60,000 U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2023

Students thrive when they have a choice in what they learn and how they engage with the content. Differentiation plays a role in the definition of personalized learning as well. Identifying all these different pathways for students to demonstrate their learning is the basis for high-quality personalized learning.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

I therefore thought that a definitive quick reference guide to the major players, with a brief description would be a handy resource for our readers. iNACOL (International Association of K-12 Online Learning). Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. Digital Promise. Focus: Closing the digital learning gap.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Take a look at the definition of “targeted marketing” in the bill and start to sweat, because it means the use of any image, any message, that targets any minor child. The digital mechanisms are not dissimilar from buying distributed advertising as the key word tags and software mechanisms are the same. The Alarming Problem.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists.

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Hack Education

JULY 2, 2016

But the problem, as some long-time VR developers insist , isn’t simply that these folks don’t know much about technology’s past: it’s that they don’t know their research (also a huge problem); and quite arguably, they seem unfamiliar with any of the debates about design or definitions. Educational Stereoscopy.

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