The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls.

Broadband 93

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 93

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Unlike mainstream search engines such as Google and Bing, these tools are academically focused providing you with results that are most likely to be relevant to your search queries. Google Scholar Google Scholar is Google's search engine for academic and scholarly literature.

Libraries 117

Libraries Google Accessibility Elsevier 117

Hapara

JANUARY 6, 2023

You can ask learners to write in a journal, complete a feeling sentence stem, fill out a graphic organizer or rate how they’re feeling at that moment. Learners can even complete these check-ins digitally in a Google Doc or Form. . Learners are able to explore digital resources together and work as a team in shared Google files.

Strategy 144

Strategy Classroom Hapara Exercises 144

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

According to a CoSN report , more than half of school districts and about one-third of public schools in the United States are in rural areas. Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully.

Broadband 98

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 98

techlearning

AUGUST 27, 2018

Users also have access to a wealth of applications in Office 365 & Google Classroom via an Android OS built-in browser. According to Pierce, many students in already-outfitted classrooms are reporting being better able to see and hear front-of-classroom work from their seats.

System 40

System Classroom E-rate Company 40

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

As anyone who has tried to check out a popular book at the library knows, sharing books with others can be a frustrating experience. According to a report written with support of major search engines like Google, Creative Commons estimates that the number of CC-licensed works available online is over 1 billion (Creative Commons, 2015).

OER 60

OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

From Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to take over the classroom, to random acts in both K-12 and higher education compromising the private information of millions of vulnerable students, 2017 has been no short of edtech news. And your latest story, Benjamin, focuses on the Federal Communications Commission, and you talk about E-Rate.

Report 99

Report E-rate Technology Education 99

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Via The New York Times : “Creepy Clown Reports Continue, and Clowns Are Not Happy.” ” “At least 9 ‘clown’ arrests so far in Alabama ,” AL.com reports. Via LA School Report : “LAUSD credit recovery vendor finds strong demand for online makeup courses nationwide.”

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Via Edsurge : “After Net Neutrality , Experts Expect Changes to FCC’s E-Rate.” Via The Guardian : “ Google faces new discrimination charge : paying female teachers less than men.” Via The New York Times : “How Climate Change Deniers Rise to the Top in Google Searches.”

Education 44

Education Kaplan E-rate Data 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” The Google Memo. .” Via Education Week : “ ESSA Point Man Jason Botel to Leave Education Dept.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

In its glossary, Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy defines news literacy as: The ability to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports, whether they come via print, television or the Internet. Our kids need new types of filters. Fake news is not new. Post-truth or truthiness.

Social Media 40

Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

” “Trump team prepares dramatic cuts,” The Hill reports , suggesting the incoming administration’s plans to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities and to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. .” ” “The U.S. Go, School Sports Team!

Education 40

Education Pearson E-rate MOOC 40

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

“ Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’,” The Atlantic’s Adam Harris reports from the Turning Point USA ’s conference. ” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). ” Coleman University will close, IHE reports.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” “The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

DeVos reported a new investment of between $250,001 and $500,000 in the Michigan-based Neurocore , according to a financial disclosure form that was certified by government ethics officials on Wednesday.” Bloomberg reports that “ Trump Administration Tapping Tech CEOs for STEM Policy Approach.” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. ” Immigration and Education.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

“Former Lobbyist With For-Profit Colleges Quits Education Department ,” ProPublica reports. Via PR Watch : “ Betsy DeVos Ethics Report Reveals Ties to Student Debt Collection Firm.” officials approve new rating system.” Education Politics. Racism, Immigration, and Education.

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

An incredible piece of reporting by The Guardian on corporate lobbying and influence in Wisconsin politics following Scott Walker ’s anti-union efforts in the state. ’” ( In related self-driving car regulation news : “ Google ’s ‘Cozy’ Relationship With Driverless-Car Regulators.”

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Senate ’s education committee on a party-line vote Wednesday advanced the nomination of Carlos Muñiz for general counsel at the Department of Education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy.”

Education 48

Education Coursera MOOC Report 48

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Did you share this Raw Story story – “Education officials expect ‘ineffective’ Betsy DeVos to step down as her agenda collapses: report” – or this Salon story – “Expert: Expect DeVos to resign from Trump administration”? ” asks The Hechinger Report. ” asks Edsurge.

Education 45

Education Facebook Company Report 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

.” Elsewhere in Trumplandia: “ Columbia University has declined to comment on recent reports that Monica Crowley , an appointee of President-elect Donald J. dissertation at the university,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. More on the report via Edsurge. ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

MOOC 40

MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. University of Texas at Austin , related to features unique to that university,“ Inside Higher Ed reports. Some parts of the decision in the case, Fisher v.

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Hack Education

JUNE 8, 2018

Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. ” Elsewhere in North Carolina , Dana Goldstein reports for The NYT on “What Budget Cuts Mean for Third Graders in a Rural School.” ” Via the Google blog : “ Teaching coding , changing lives: Google.org supports MolenGeek.”

Khan Academy 45

Khan Academy Education Facebook E-rate 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Not Net Neutrality, but another potential FCC move – ending the E-Rate program. “Four Democratic attorneys general filed separate lawsuits Thursday seeking to compel Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to grant debt relief to students defrauded by for-profit colleges ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Testing.

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

” “ Elon Musk and the chief executive of Uber are now advising Donald Trump ,” The Washington Post reports. Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” ” Via The New York Times : “ Google Effect Rubs Off on Schools in One Rural Oklahoma Town.” Not so much.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Google)’s biotech company, Calico. ” Tuition keeps going up and up and up, although as The Wall Street Journal noted this fall, published tuition rates only rose 2.4% this year, according to the annual Grapevine Report – 39 states reported an increase and 9 reported a decrease in funding.

MOOC 40

MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

Education 40

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. This reporting treats “ed-tech” as a product built in and by Silicon Valley, not as something built in and by public institutions around the world.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40