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TCEA 2018: Tech Upgrades Begin with Professional Development

EdTech Magazine

With the help of a local bond and E-rate funding , the Texas public school district serving more than 67,000 students and covering portions of Houston and Harris County, embarked on an ambitious three-year technology plan to put devices into the hands of every student, teacher and administrator. The program has been highly successful.

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Dev Tools Key to Surge in Passkey Use

Mark Smithers

By understanding the benefits of passkey integration, the enthusiasm among developers, and the growing adoption statistics, we can gain valuable insights into the future trends of passkey use. Major entities like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have integrated passkeys into their services.

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A Step-by-Step Guide On How To Create Your First Online Course

EdTech4Beginners

Online teaching is trending right now, but only a small part of courses is of real value. 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. Promotion and sale.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

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. And so is Bezos’ $2 billion investment in Montessori-inspired preschools. The question then is not if, but when, education will be added to this list.

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

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Since 2014, a primary goal of the E-rate program has been to ensure affordable access to high-speed broadband in the nation’s schools.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

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. But experts who watch trends in teaching say that something is different now. I wanted to talk to a few students myself.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

(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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