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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

Edsurge

Home Is Where the Homeschooling Is Could greater public approval of homeschooling be an unexpected result of the pandemic’s forced experiment in remote online learning? Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey finds homeschooling rates have more than doubled during the pandemic. Two surveys make it look that way. percent to 11.1

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STEM for kids: Online classes teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math skills

Neo LMS

In the upcoming decade, STEM jobs will grow at almost double the rate of all other jobs. Here are some of our favorite online learning technologies, tools, and e-learning resources for teaching STEM skills to children: Science. Technology & Engineering.

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Discover Ways to Drive Safe Google Apps Adoption in Your School

Gaggle Speaks

The launch of Google Classroom along with changes to E-Rate funding have led school districts, perhaps more than ever, to consider a move to Google Apps for Education. “Google Apps opens up a plethora of opportunities for administrators, teachers and students,” said Stephanie.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. They can’t access online encyclopedias. They basically can’t access online anything. A typical E-rate project gets denied at a 4 percent rate,” Marwell said.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Unported License.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

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.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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