EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Soon after Putnam County School District adopted GoGuardian internet content monitoring, it detected four troubled students making Google searches that were variations on the query “how to kill yourself.” Some schools even rely on ­software to save lives. Automated Filters Offer K–12 Schools Long-Distance Protection.

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Tools E-rate Chromebook Policies 333

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. Tap into the power of cloud productivity tools Good examples would be Google Drive, Office 365 and Dropbox.

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BYOD E-rate Khan Academy LMS 150

Neo LMS

JULY 4, 2017

Learning management systems are software products that are designed to make compartmentalising, reinforcing, supporting and delivering online classes easy, and time efficient. One is a Learning Management System (LMS) and the other Learning Content Management System (LCMS). In-system collaboration.

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Course LMS E-rate System 208

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 14, 2018

Forecast out for the big systems. Small districts also can resell equipment, take advantage of E-rate funds and evaluate systems yearly for redundancies or other unnecessary spending. Battaglia said she often visits schools and offers tips on Google Chrome or Microsoft Word while chatting with staff or teachers. “

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E-rate EdTech Social Media System 193

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2022

The correct definition of the concept is necessary to set the right learning tools: today an e-course is not only a slideshow in PowerPoint but also drag-and-drop simulators, interactive tasks, games, tests, and much more. This way is also more competitive as users rate you and people can see similar courses next to yours.

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Course How To E-rate Udemy 147

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

And I remember my first year in the education system; my teachers thought I was mute; they thought I couldn't speak. Top Tool #1: PowerPoint Subtitles (Mentioned) Google slides with Captions 00;05;02;07 – 00;05;15;29 Teresa Magpayo Castro Absolutely. Can you do these things in Google?

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Accessibility Tools Microsoft Data 385

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Special Ed Treasure #1: Google Keep. My new favorite right now is Google Keep. Listen Now.

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Google Twitter Data Tools 290

Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 7, 2015

Google Apps, Evernote, Edmodo, and more are all web based. E-rate no longer pays for servers either. We use Backupify to backup and archive all of our Google Apps data and the other vendors backup the data to multiple locations. In today''s web based world, servers and hosting your own systems seems outdated.

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Data E-rate Edmodo Pearson 100

Hapara

MARCH 13, 2023

Schools that receive E-rate program discounts for broadband access are required to have internet safety policies with “technology protection measures.” Map educators and learners separately If you don’t already, it’s a good idea to keep educators and learners separate in your Google organizational unit (OU) structure.

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Digital Learning Chromebook Learning Policies 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

While Google, Microsoft and Apple have been pursuing their ambitions in K-12 and higher education for more than a decade, Amazon has mostly remained at the sidelines. Through services like personal assistant Alexa or home security system Blink, Amazon has become omnipresent in our daily lives as consumers.

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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

Mark Smithers

APRIL 9, 2024

Major entities like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have integrated passkeys into their services. Passkey Adoption Statistics Passkey adoption has seen significant growth, with a total of 92 websites integrating passkeys into their authentication systems.

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Tools Trends E-rate Industry 41

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. One of the best ways to distribute an assessment such as is by first creating a template (using Google Drawings in this case) and then distributing them through Google Classroom. Why Use a Rating System?

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

TeacherCast

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this example, a Google Apps assessment has been created using Google Drawings. One of the best ways to distribute an assessment such as is by first creating a template (using Google Drawings in this case) and then distributing them through Google Classroom. Why Use a Rating System?

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Survey E-rate Course Assessment 88

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There are many free online tools such as SurveyMonkey or Google Forms and you can send the survey to everyone through email. You can include strategies on how they can improve their jobs using the system. This way teachers will improve their activities, which will lead to higher productivity rates and better results.

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LMS Training How To Survey 188

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

What Students Say And because of the experience students had during COVID-19 lockdowns, when most teaching was online, many students feel they learned how to teach themselves by just Googling. She uses a system called Top Hat, but there are a few competing systems like this for use in lectures to inject some interactivity.

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Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 202

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Research databases, including Google Scholar, ResearchGate and JSTOR can serve as resources for peer-reviewed studies.

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EdTech Comparison Study Groups 199

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

This is a program that I'm reviewing for my own renewal that comes up this year and I'm excited about their microcredentialing system, which is why I'm recommending it to you! From 2017-2020, she held an Instructional Coaching Fellowship with Google for Education. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports.

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E-rate Education Meeting Industry 362

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

(Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). While Microsoft might traditionally be expected to be best positioned to capitalize on the 2-in-1 market, Google’s Android operating system is outperforming expectations across the board in the U.S. million shipments from 5.7

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E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

And I think we're probably in the mid-nineties version of AI at the moment, and how it's going to how is going to benefit learning and education as a system ultimately, I guess, is for anybody's guess at the moment. So Google Bard , which is like kind of the their version of ChatGPT is going to come naturally with citation.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. She also created a system through Google Classroom for them to easily submit materials and documentation electronically. Life Schools started small in the first year. First, they identified their desired goals.

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Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. She also created a system through Google Classroom for them to easily submit materials and documentation electronically. Step 1: Identify Goals and Requirements. Life Schools started small in the first year. Step 3: Find Leaders.

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Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 66

The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 8, 2012

At any rate, my file cabinet lives a lonely and neglected life these days because its utility has been reduced to simply some place to put my printer. Keep your computer file system simple; only use a handful of folders, the less the better. The problem with such file systems is two-fold. Most happily assist me.

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Strategy E-rate System Meeting 90

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Look for editorial ratings. I thought I’d share some of our preliminary findings. Look for text revisions.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Filter bubbles and echo chambers, and the choices we ourselves make, limit what we see online so that we tend to see the facts, arguments, individual and groups who amplify our own opinions and belief systems and limit us to one side of a story, that is, unless we consciously and actively work to expand our scope. New source bias ratings.

E-rate 40

E-rate Common Core Strategy Survey 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

Videos are probably a more effective way to introduce you to a game than some kind of app overview page with nebulous, consumer-driven ratings. Note 2: We haven’t linked to any “buy this here” landing pages outside of Apple and Google Play app stores, but a quick Google search should yield what you’re looking for.

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Video E-rate Learning Mobility 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

Gestural computing for example, has been with us for a few years in the guise of games consoles such as the 360 Kinnect system manufactured by Microsoft. This week I read an article that documented the recent partnership between futurist Ray Kurzweil and Google''s Larry Page. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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Learning E-rate Digital Divide Microsoft 59

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — CAST Tech, San Antonio’s newest public high school, looks like an outpost of Google. The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. million donation from H-E-B in 2016. What’s cool about CAST Tech?”

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E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 102

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Love is the orientation that can move us from systemically decomplexifying education to embracing its richness.” IT’S NOT ABOUT ‘FEELING THE BERN’: If you want to transform a system of higher education, how would you do it? Love is the orientation we need more of in education. AN EXPLOSION OF CONNECTIVITY”: Kokoon.

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Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Consumers’ expectations have shifted substantially due to the widespread adoption of on-demand delivery services in urban settings and the significant increase in worldwide e-commerce. Google Analytics. Many other analytics tools are available, but Google Analytics is the most popular. Salesforce.

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Tools Social Media Data Industry 26

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? Stuart Burt : When they changed E-rate a couple years ago, it was a learning curve.

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OER E-rate Broadband Future Ready 48

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

However, most of our time, focus, and resources are concentrated on at-school connections -- a sensible strategy when the state of technology at school has been severely lacking (see CoSN's 2014 E-Rate and Infrastructure Survey ). Political Allies. In Revere, Mass., Business and Philanthropic Community.

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Broadband E-rate Laptops Survey 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s.

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E-rate Conference Social Media Study 73

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 28, 2011

I was reading some articles about the simplicity and effectiveness of the Apple operating system, along with some information about the inventor of the flip camera and his obsessive focus on simplicity. Apple makes it easy to use their operating system. I wanted to give teachers stuff they would never find on Google, but was good. “My

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E-rate iPhone Study Differentiated Instruction 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+).

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Among the bill''s provisions is the return of control to the states over devising their own systems for how to hold schools accountable for student achievement. Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

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. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 95

Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 23, 2017 Is It Time to Break Up Google? | New York Times → Could it be that Google has become a natural monopoly by supplying an entire market’s demand for a service, at a price lower than what would be offered by two competing firms? By 2021, most of the student body should be in the system."

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EdTech OER E-rate Microsoft 170