eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2018

This year’s E-rate cycle may be over, but in order to be well prepared for the next one, now is the time to start the connectivity conversation with your school district. In today’s classrooms, high-speed internet is no longer an option; it has become a necessity.

E-rate 70

E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Accessibility 70

EdTech4Beginners

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For students with learning disabilities or required accommodations, for example, a laptop or digital learning program may encourage interaction with material in a personalized way. Today’s educators can use technology and digital media to enhance the experience and fully engage students. Automating Tedious Tasks.

Classroom 176

Classroom Laptops E-rate Social Media 176

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You learned how to Zoom, or Hangout, or Team up. You recorded your lectures or gathered via video call with however many students you could reach each week. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age ,” by George Siemens (article), lays out a new learning theory for the modern era.

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Course E-rate Flipped Classroom Education 213

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. The company describes itself on its website as the first e-learning platform built for and by the blind and visually impaired.

Online Learning 166

Online Learning E-rate Training Software 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While vendors and e-learning service providers promote microlearning as an off-the-shelf solution to be used like a genie’s lamp to solve all the learning and development issues in your organization, they fail to understand that microlearning is not a technological solution—it is a learning strategy.

LMS 182

LMS E-rate Training Survey 182

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

Statewide ed-tech inventories are helping state leaders assess their digital learning needs. It was the 100-percent response rate from the survey. “We We knew most districts and schools would respond, but a 100-percent response rate shows that technology is a high priority for education leaders throughout the state,” he said.

Digital Learning 40

Digital Learning Assessment E-rate Survey 40

Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Any type of resource you can create for instruction or to help students learn a skill can be turned into an OER. . Here are some examples of OER you can create for K-12: Videos like this clock explanatory video. In addition, you can add media such as video and images if you’re building a lesson plan, unit or assessment.

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OER Resources How To Education 130

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

While there are many types of personalized learning, one factor needed for all models is the ability for students to connect to a high-speed Internet connection from virtually anywhere while at school. These districts are at risk of losing more than $300 million in funding if they don’t use at least a portion of their E-rate funds in 2018-19.

Personalized Learning 53

Personalized Learning E-rate Learning Trends 53

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.

E-rate 40

E-rate Broadband Report Libraries 40

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Maine’s students also had access to enrichment or remediation classes through a web-based distance learning program with Mesa Unified School District, an urban Arizona District outside of Phoenix, but it was difficult to stream more than a couple of videos at one time, and their Internet access during AZMerit state testing week was spotty.

E-rate 72

E-rate Broadband Comparison Laptops 72

eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

Furthermore, Hanson noted that high quality edtech helps students, teachers, and administrators by making it easier to use student data to differentiate learning. Piedmont City Schools addressed this challenge by using e-rate funding to provide free internet access to all Piedmont families within the city limits.

EdTech 52

EdTech E-rate Education Data 52

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

Digital Divide 250

Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 250

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2016

Lubbock Independent School District aims to support a thriving culture of digital learning in its schools by ensuring teachers and students have more than enough bandwidth. With 51 schools located in West Texas, Lubbock has struggled to find affordable options to serve their nearly-thirty thousand students.

E-rate 66

E-rate Broadband Comparison Blended Learning 66

Neo LMS

MARCH 7, 2019

Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING, participated to a live event for Digital Learning Day 2019. The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech.

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Trends Digital Learning EdTech Gamification 317

Hapara

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning platform is designed to make teaching easier by allowing educators to manage and individualize lessons and evaluate students. To get the maximum out of any digital learning platform your school uses, your operators need to be well-trained and skilled.

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Training Digital Learning How To EdTech 157

Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. Be it an online video or a live seminar. Help Them Understand Concepts Better with Videos. Create Audiobooks.

eBook 64

eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2015

Data from the Federal Communications Commission reveals that the federal E-Rate program has connected nearly all U.S. In fact, more than half of schools (63 percent) don’t have enough bandwidth to meet digital learning needs, according to the nonprofit Education SuperHighway.

E-rate 40

E-rate Classroom Survey Data 40

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

According to the Stillmans, Jonah sees dialing into a meeting via video conferencing as no different than sitting face-to-face in a boardroom. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ].

Kaplan 106

Kaplan E-rate Smartphone Mobility 106

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million teachers in more than 81,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning.

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

We couldn’t download videos, and I even had to ask people to get offline during standardized testing so we wouldn’t bog down the network. After being introduced to EducationSuperHighway by Virginia’s K-12 Learning Infrastructure Program coordinator Susan Clair, Robin began to see a path forward. It was a mess. ” HER IMPACT.

E-rate 65

E-rate Broadband iPad STEM 65

Learning in Hand

APRIL 5, 2017

Jonathan Wylie is a Digital Learning Consultant at Grand Wood AEA. For each of his 10 ideas, Jonathan shared stories, quotes, examples, and videos. Big Idea #1 Technology is integrated well when it is used as a tool to enhance teaching and learning. You can view Jonathan’s slides.

Technology 58

Technology E-rate Digital Citizenship Professional Learning 58

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.

Education 216

Education Learning Software Knewton 216

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 12, 2017

In just a few years, America has taken significant steps to decrease its digital learning disadvantage and is now implementing innovative education technology in more classrooms than ever before. 34 governors across the U.S. per Mbps in 2015 to just $7 per Mbps nationally today. times more per Mbps than those that are meeting the goal.

Broadband 40

Broadband Report E-rate Digital Learning 40

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Digital Learning Innovation Awards (DLIAwards) from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) last November. The awards recognize educators’ and institutions’ innovative use of digital courseware to improve outcomes for students, especially underrepresented ones.

Tools 85

Tools Outcomes Flipped Classroom E-rate 85

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. Department of Education video. (Having said that, I have already committed to writing a series of posts specifically on the U.S.

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

eSpark

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Furthermore, Hanson noted that high quality edtech helps students, teachers, and administrators by making it easier to use student data to differentiate learning. Piedmont City Schools addressed this challenge by using e-rate funding to provide free internet access to all Piedmont families within the city limits.

EdTech 40

EdTech Education E-rate iPad 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Fears about digital learning tools are especially tricky because they’re primarily emotional, not logical.

Digital Learning 82

Digital Learning Technology Mobility E-rate 82

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Leaders & Decision Makers, Digital Learning and Instructional Technologists, IT Admins, Network Admins, IT Security, IT Infrastructure roles, School Counselors, Safety leaders, and SROs. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning.

EdTech 52

EdTech Survey Learning Data 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. Intent on bridging that gap, Little Falls CSD is working with Albany, N.Y.-based

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Accessibility Flipped Classroom 40

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. 3:10 one of the clear reasons is the proliferation of digital learning so the student doesn’t have access. We’re very excited to have all three of you here today.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. 3:10 one of the clear reasons is the proliferation of digital learning so the student doesn’t have access. We’re very excited to have all three of you here today.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Both have had long careers at Brevard and have worked closely to implement technology into the schools’ digital learning programs. Overcoming Obstacles to Digital Access. Fitzgerald saw an opportunity to plan ahead and set the schools up for future digital learning success. Shifting Their Strategy.

Digital Learning 74

Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 74

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As school districts increasingly take advantage of digital learning in the classroom, they need high-speed connectivity that supports their expanded technology use. Robust digital learning opportunities extend beyond online testing or digitized versions of textbooks. Video collaboration. Video streaming.

E-rate 58

E-rate Broadband Digital Learning Video 58

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

What’s needed to address the digital divide for all is sustainable, dedicated funding that allows districts to meet the needs of the community. Pringle said that the NEA is currently working with the FCC on how to get increased investment in the E-rate program because, through that program, dollars can be distributed in an equitable manner.

System 53

System Digital Divide E-rate Education 53

Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 15, 2023

Learn how this approach improved staff efficiency, freeing up time so they can focus on what matters most—student wellbeing and engagement during digital learning. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. 3:48 Great.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

Cleon Franklin, a great innovator and former Director of Virtual Schools and Online Learning at Shelby County Schools, said a very interesting thing about what happens when you ungate students. Schools have been used to years and years of learning trials to validate a single textbook as worthy of the needed rigor of teaching and learning.

Learning 100

Learning Software E-rate Industry 100

EdNews Daily

JULY 10, 2019

By definition, it’s the “motion” of “e.” Unlike in the tech industry, where “e” is “electronic,” in “emotion,” it’s “excite,” signifying that motion is present but not always seen. Schools everywhere are experiencing massive attrition rates. People tend to characterize the feeling of love as a warmth, a welling up of something.

EdTech 203

EdTech E-rate Trends Equity of Access 203