eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Kajeet, a world-class provider of private wireless and managed IoT connectivity, today announced a collaboration with Google to deploy its Private 5G Platform on Google Distributed Cloud Edge. Many school districts aspire to provide adequate off-campus broadband access to their staff and students.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. and we're now translating them to make them more accessible globally.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This is evident in the way that Google Forms transform exit tickets by quickly and efficiently identifying areas of confusion, highlighting opportunities to dive in to the next day’s lesson. For example, technology tools in the augment category provide teachers with improved ways of interacting with students.

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Assessment Educreations Digital Divide Tools 155

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2018

When you are planning a digital learning experience, be goal oriented! Begin with your learning outcomes, not the technology. Just because you are using technology doesn’t ensure you are meeting any objectives or learning outcomes. The question is always, “What are the desired student outcomes?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

In March, it hosts a showcase of students’ work to underscore their successes and positive outcomes. Reducing digital inequities is no easy feat, but it is one that the district approached strategically and creatively, along with a substantial desire to ensure all its students succeed in school.

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Accessibility LMS Chromebook Digital Divide 83

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Online collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, empower students to collaborate on projects and share resources in real time. Let’s examine one K-12 educational technology tool: Google Classroom. What is an educational technology tool? There are a limitless number of technology tools used in the classroom.

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Khan Academy Technology Tools LMS 57

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Google Reader. Um, they do.) Crested Pigeon. Montessori 2.0. The TED Talk.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” ” The Wall Street Journal looks at “ Paying Professors : Inside Google ’s Academic Influence Campaign.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

From the “Digital Divide” to “Digital Redlining” Discussions about education technology (and new digital technologies more generally) were, for many years , framed in terms of the “ digital divide ” – that is, the gap between those who have access to computers and to the Internet and those who do not. .”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Is It the Best Role Model?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. If anything, that’s a fair take on what “technology” might mean as a generic term: manipulating one set of basic materials to realize goals that exceed those materials. Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company. In March, the FCC approved a $9.25

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