eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Meet the cohort We’re excited to announce the startups that will make up this inaugural cohort. Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early January announced 15 startup companies selected to participate in the inaugural AWS Education Accelerator.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

We are a small, nonprofit special education school serving students with a wide range of abilities, including many who are on the Autism Spectrum and/or have limited mobility, and it was very important to us from the onset that we use this technology to meet the needs of all our students. Selecting a VR solution.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In general, education in the metaverse relies on the use of avatars, digital representations of users, which students can use to interact with one another. Educators can also interact within these digital learning spaces using their own avatars, resulting in a classroom situation within a virtual learning environment.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s the meeting place for the global publishing industry and this year, the focus will be on “translation” As it is the way forward for understanding and exchanging ideas between cultures in the midst of diversity. The platform enables the delivery of mobile-ready responsive content on all major operating devices.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

To support this goal, Digital Promise’s Marketplace initiative is dedicated to identifying “effective, engaging, tech-enabled learning environments.” To identify effective digital learning tools, we have to know what kind of impact we are looking for. What makes a learning app good?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other popular mobile apps make it super easy for users to add stickers and emojis to their images. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Meet teachers worldwide! Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com !

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 21, 2017

To complete this mission you will take at least 5 selfie images or videos, which meet any of the challenges listed below. I write about the significance of selfies for today’s digital learners in my upcoming book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

When Neosho Junior High School teachers and students moved into a sleek, new campus last August, they said goodbye to traditional classrooms and hello to modern learning spaces that encourage mobility, collaboration and new ways of learning. features spacious, glass-walled classrooms that open into common learning areas.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Powerful learning devices. Access to mobile devices that connect learners and educators to the vast resources of the Internet and facilitate communication and collaboration. High-quality digital learning content. Persistent access to high-speed Internet in and out of school.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

So, it’s no surprise that that many are upgrading or extending their Wi-Fi networks to prepare for digitalization. But Wi-Fi has limitations in important areas such as multi-user capacity, coverage, reliability, security, and mobility. It’s also prone to disruptions caused by interference and obstacles. Private wireless networks (4.9G/LTE

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 19, 2014

Ask any of the thousands of teachers who regularly use Twitter, Pinterest, or Facebook about connected education, and you may get an earful about using digital tools as a means to connect with educators and students worldwide. Enter Corwin Press and the Connected Educators Series. According to DeWitt, we can.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Describe a digital learning project or initiative that you're currently working on. Following the success of the Indiana and San Diego programs, I've been mobilizing Rhode Island as another location where we can widely implement a Common Sense Certified Educator train-the-trainer program.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, February 17, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support National Engineers Week nationwide.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? E-learning is mobile.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Advisors can help students establish healthy work habits by sending helpful advice for meeting deadlines before classes begin such as: Plan ahead: Get a “lay of the land” of the course by reading the syllabus. Use a planner to indicate major course deadlines, review it regularly and implement steps to meet those deadlines.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Future of School (FoS) today announced that Microsoft has joined as a partner in the Resilient Schools Project (RSP) to provide access to valuable training sessions from Microsoft Store aimed to support educators with remote and hybrid learning. Maintaining a focus on meeting the needs of those who matter the most in schools—students.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 5, 2017

If you like these ideas then be sure to check out my new book published this summer with more ideas, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Join me this Friday, July 7th, for a webinar on this topic, Bring Books to Life for Digital Learners. Digitize literature circles.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 24, 2016

To do this, Lilly turned to the CK-12 Foundation to help develop a suite of Open Educational Resources (OER) that would help them meet the school’s budgetary and educational needs. With a full suite of concept based learning content that’s enriched by multiple modalities (text, video, lesson plans, activities etc.)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Securing a bachelor’s degree from a respected non-profit institution continues to be one of the clearest pathways to social mobility and strong job outcomes in the U.S., and alternative credentials like boot camps and certificates have emerged as powerful stepping stones to careers in the digital economy.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

The funds will go toward purchasing MiFi devices, which provide mobile broadband access, so that 15 percent can connect at home for free. As learning becomes increasingly connected, many districts are struggling to serve students who are disconnected at home. .” That’s about to change, though. Share them in the comments.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

The Federal Communications Commission set aside an additional $2 billion over the next two years to help schools upgrade their Internet connections so that those connections meet the standards set out by the State Education Technology Directors Association.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 17, 2017

As President and CEO of Digital Promise and Senior Vice President of Educational Partnerships at Discovery Education, we spend much of our time on the road, meeting with school leaders and teachers across the country. Stories have the power to inform, inspire, connect, and mobilize.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

This plan serves as a $10 million investment to help the district’s more than 65,000 students complete their academic pathways and support their aspirations toward social and economic mobility. A laptop loan program alone fails to meet the need if the student doesn’t have internet connectivity at home.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

This week, Beyond 12 said it has acquired GradGuru , a mobile platform designed to give students “nudges,” or text-based reminders about tasks that will help them succeed in college. So we thought: ‘Why not use the power of mobile devices to push the right information to them at the right time?’”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Maybe, he says, if it passed the vetting by districts and state education departments to show it protects student privacy and meets other requirements. Arizona State University experimented with a different online social platform during its Learning (Hu)Man conference for educators last month. Would it be a good fit for his classroom?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

For instance, Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization that equips parents to support learning at home, worked with partner organizations to update The Learning Hero Roadmap , a free K-8 interactive guide with videos and tools to help parents support grade-level math and reading as well as social-emotional development.

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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 ]. This has coined the term “phigital” when referencing the mindset of Gen Z.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 22, 2020

Here are a few tools that have become increasingly more popular for educators in the digital age. GroupMe is a mobile group messaging app owned by Microsoft. Messages can be sent on the go using a laptop, mobile app or tablet as well, which allows for several ways to connect with others. Tool #5: Google Hangouts Meet.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2017

Given students’ easy access to videos and digital resources via mobile devices and computers, it makes sense that educators would incorporate such TOOLS/MEDIA into their instruction.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Cybercriminals often use mobile IoT devices to get inside the institute’s network. These include laptops, desktops, smartphones, or tablets that students use to enhance digital learning. Hence, educational institutions must include mobile security as a part of their cyber security strategies. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

To help adult learners, edtech tools should be designed for their needs and goals, support them in virtually communicating with instructors and classmates and offer them a smooth mobile experience, according to a new report published on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Each mission in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions , shares an example of the Mission in Action by a teacher I admire. Jon constantly strives to learn and share ideas with educators. My daughter, Savvy, got to meet Jon at ISTE 2017. Follow him @JonSamuelson.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In addition to sessions and presentations, edtech companies made major announcements and launched new products aimed at everything from network security and communication to digital portfolios and mobile devices. Related content: Can’t-miss sessions at TCEA 2020.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Zoom has multi-billion dollars of video and audio architecture behind them for streaming these classes or meetings live. I was able to focus all of our development on really adding the teaching and learning tools to Zoom. I could never even build that,” he said. “I

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We have all gone through the ebb and flow of a school year where school district leaders debated how to get ahead of the curve and stay ahead of ever-changing digital learning environments. In today’s post, we will look at a growing trend in K12 Digital Learning. But this year it’s just a little different.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We have all gone through the ebb and flow of a school year where school district leaders debated how to get ahead of the curve and stay ahead of ever-changing digital learning environments. In today’s post, we will look at a growing trend in K12 Digital Learning. But this year it’s just a little different. 3-mega pixel ?

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