EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2018

School Districts Take Advantage of E-Rate’s Category One Funding. Once its existing WAN ­provider wanted to charge significantly more for the same bandwidth speed, Midlothian Independent School District administrators began shopping for a faster, more affordable network — and they got one this ­summer with the help of E-rate fund s.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On the other hand, USB-C simplifies things considerably, with fully reversible, bi-directional power capabilities and better data rates. However, mobile phones and tablets are among the most commonly connected devices using USB and flash drives since their earliest iterations. had a data rate of 1.5 had a data rate of 1.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

With no guaranteed end in sight, we need Congress to take swift and decisive action to empower the federal E-rate funding program to support off-campus learning devices and connectivity, delivered via secure internet access. Congress must acknowledge that online education can take place anywhere a Wi-Fi connection exists.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2023

Community colleges, which have historically served as comprehensive institutions offering associate degrees with transfer articulation agreements to four-year colleges, have also served as workforce drivers through their array of educational credit and non-credit courses. From 1890 to 1940, higher education in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Most Americans agree that education is a national priority. public education system falls in the middle of international quality rankings. But let’s be clear: the problem with education in America is not lack of excellence. Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2015

With E-rate reformed, educators must consider new learning-centered questions. E-rate, officially known as the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, was created to provide schools and libraries with an affordable way to obtain telecommunications, internet access and internet-related services.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You pivoted, shifted and, let’s be real, maybe stumbled into a makeshift version of online education. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. But no matter what modes your teaching takes in the future, hopefully this syllabus will be a good way for you to start digging deeper into online education. Key Concepts.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2019

Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . Fourteen percent of children ages 3 to 18 lack home internet access , according to National Center for Education Statistics data.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

For superintendents in the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , this is an opportunity to examine and reimagine their education systems under new constraints. So, we’ve been trying to advocate for those mobile hotspots. We also assumed that a lot of our educators also had [internet] access, and we provided devices.

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SecurEdge

APRIL 21, 2015

Mobile and wireless technology have redefined the educational environment. With planning and a little help from E-Rate. E-Rate School Wireless Network K-12 Education' However, there’s one major challenge, school wireless networks are expensive. So how do you pay for it all?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Since the Switch is a handheld device with a touch screen, it offers a combination of console-based and mobile game functions, which may make video gameplay easier for young children. The game is most likely to be educationally valuable if the educational content is woven into the game itself,” Kirkorian explains. “If

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

We focus a lot on the K-12 system of the United States in our blog , and I thought it would be fun and interesting to explore how countries in the developing world are facing their specific educational challenges with blended learning models. The pilot generated positive results with the average successful pass rate being 86% across topics.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Lines between school and the home became blurred, and in that haze, new forms of innovation emerged at local, national, and individual levels across the education landscape. A Broader View of Education Innovation. The district invested in mobile hotspot vehicles that are deployed daily across eight areas of town.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 23, 2016

Cross-posted from Digital Education. The SpedApps project , created by the Research Center for Educational Technology at Kent State University in Ohio, also features a website that reviews apps developed to reach special education students, as well as two apps created by researchers working on the initiative.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 8, 2020

Mobile Internet Offers. As schools all around the country are closing due to COVID-19 and classrooms are moving online, many districts are scrambling to support their educators and students with distance learning. Mobile Internet Offers. GET IN TOUCH. Tripling data allowance for Verizon Innovative Learning middle schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

When Americans see crisis we mobilize. The FCC has rightly extended some deadlines for its E-Rate and rural healthcare programs, made certain the amount of rural health care funding available for the current funding year and relaxed its gift rules. We have a sound statutory basis to do so through the E-Rate program.

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eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

So, why is edtech so slow to catch on in rural education? In a state where less than 60 percent of people have access to high-speed internet, schools tend to shy away from investing in educational technology. Piedmont students that lived outside the city limits were given access to mobile wi-fi hotspots for $15-$40 a month.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 8, 2016

E-learning, for some, can be boring if they just stick to the “rules”. You know like, not expanding the already-existing e-learning concepts and techniques instructors and educators already know. Mobile devices also have WiFi which makes for an on-demand access to school resources. They’re virtually ubiquitous.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the survey, school district representatives also answered questions about E-rate, broadband connectivity, cloud computing and data interoperability. He put it this way: “Could you have an equal chance to apply for college if you’re at McDonald’s on your mobile device, versus if you’re at home on your desktop?”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. But as my colleague Ryan Craig likes to say, no one has ever gone broke betting against the pace of change in higher education. With two-thirds of U.S.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to studies over the years, STEM jobs are growing at a rate twice that of non-STEM jobs. If you’re a student interested in a STEM career, you’ll be happy to know that plenty of scholarships are available to help you finance your education. The Hunter Hobson Scholarship. The Gates Scholarship.

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Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

ICT is a mode of education that uses information and communications technology to support, enhance, and optimise the delivery of information. The advancement of education technologies and digital content development tools has made personalised learning available to wider audiences. ICTs facilitate learning-to-learn skills.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Whether you’re an experienced educator or a parent struggling to adjust to remote learning in the face of the national lockdown, chances are good that you’re looking for ideas to help your student, or students, thrive in the unfamiliar world of the virtual classroom. There’s no cause to give up our children’s education for lost.

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Social Media Gamification Learning E-rate 195

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

As educators, we have an obligation to create safe environments no matter where students learn. The federal Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted in 2000 and requires schools to have an internet safety policy in place to receive E-rate program discounts. educate them about digital citizenship .

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Digital Citizenship How To Internet Safety Hapara 243

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Looking back now, at age 40, as assistant professor of higher education administration and policy in the University of California system, Del Real Viramontes can see what his story shares in common with the experiences of so many students who start out at community colleges hoping to eventually earn a bachelor’s degree. This week, the U.S.

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Policies Course E-rate Examples 176

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation. Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Over the course of three days, meeting attendees collaborated in working groups on topics like competency-based education, personalized learning, and maker research. They also identified new partnerships they will continue with researchers, companies, and fellow League districts. ” During a keynote address at the meeting, Dr.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

A major generational clash is underway, says a foremost expert, and it’s affecting all industries, including education. So what does that mean for educators? Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ]. Well, buckle up and hold on.

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Kaplan Smartphone E-rate Mobility 106

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The marriage between industry, community colleges, and career and technical education is real. Dating back to the groundbreaking Morrill Act of 1862, which formally recognized the role of higher education in preparing citizens for vocations , community-based education has been a staple in America’s history.

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Industry E-rate Mobility Meeting 134

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We were starting to [exceed] our bandwidth capacity… With our goals as a district to move towards mobile technology and online curriculum, we needed to begin focusing on [increasing bandwidth].” They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 I didn’t have to convince too many people of that.” Still, the tool isn’t for everybody.

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Broadband E-rate Tools Data 60

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 15, 2020

When you are Facetiming or Skyping or Zooming with friends and family or communicating with your own students, let’s encourage folks to take out their library cards, find those barcodes and browse their public library’s digital assets to discover rich content to enjoy on their desktops, mobile devices or as apps on their televisions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate. At the time, Benjamin Johnson, the university’s director of media and public relations, said the retail value of each iPad and associated technology was more than $1,000, but the university will pay a discounted rate. Amazon gave Echo Dots. Charitable?

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techlearning

MAY 14, 2018

of its award-winning education-focused E7000 IP-based paging and intercom system that debuted at InfoComm 2017. The multi-function NQ-GA10P is a PoE powered, plenum rated, 10-Watt VoIP intercom module that enables any standard analog speaker to be transformed into a VoIP intercom speaker. announced the introduction of version 2.0

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