eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. They need to be able to identify sources and find corroborating information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. A new survey shows that college students’ attitudes correlate with their personal experiences with online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Holmes County, where half the students live below poverty level , is following a national trend by using online resources to offer more advanced high school courses to its students. Department of Education, students took 317,000 online courses. It’s a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Why Mississippi?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Some students were unable to procure those.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. million from 2012 to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

More than 99 percent of schools nationwide have access to speedy and reliable internet, making online learning an option for their students. School buildings are closed because of coronavirus, and the bandwidth that powered digital learning for kids is going unused. schools is effectively closed. Only, now it doesn’t matter.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Laptops sit much lower on a work surface. Does your school issue laptops or Chromebooks to all students? This, in fact, is an ongoing trend. Thomas School, for example, provides each student with a laptop and has two dedicated STEM spaces. These include remote or online learning and research.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 22, 2017

The rise of online business has created many new and exciting industries, not least of which is eLearning. With a laptop, tablet, or phone, and a WiFi connection, it’s now possible to learn pretty much any skill you require wherever you are, whenever you want.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Poor internet, a lack of laptops and hotspots, and instability at home are the factors most commonly cited for making participation in online learning difficult for kids. Redland Elementary Principal Adrian Montes works one-on-one with a student who wasn’t signing on for online learning. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Fifty-six percent of families said their internet was too slow to properly participate in online learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to meet the needs of all learners.

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techlearning

AUGUST 29, 2018

The laptop computer narrowly edges out the desktop computer and tablet as the most popular classroom technology. They also predict a decrease in spending on self-paced online learning which would seem to indicate an increase in spending on mediated or teacher directed online learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth.

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myViewBoard

MARCH 17, 2020

Virtual classrooms are not a new trend, nowadays many students around the world use distance learning as an option. All you need is your laptop or a digital device that can display the virtual content. Everything should be online. Adriana Najera. myViewBoard Global Educator.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

Holmes County, where half the students live below poverty level , is following a national trend by using online resources to offer more advanced high school courses to its students. Department of Education, students took 317,000 online courses. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report). It’s a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. They had something more important: basic digital literacy. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Personal hotspots, which allow students to connect a laptop or tablet with a cellular data connection, have been the most popular solution because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. We have to do something about that, especially now that so many of our students are learning remotely,” Muri said. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

That’s an estimated 600,000 fewer college students nationwide if these partial enrollment trends continue. Tuition worries aside, many don’t have high-speed internet, their own up-to-date laptops or a quiet places to study for online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

But as the news about the virus became increasingly grim, Rand was told to begin preparing for distance learning. She started searching for lessons provided by the online learning program Edgenuity that she could adapt for her high school students. Subscribe today!

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. Will I be able to call them up on the day before my lab and say, ‘Can you come and update 24 laptops before tomorrow?'”

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We now have higher education that is entirely online. I recently completed a Masters degree while working full-time and taking a full load because online learning is so flexible. No Child Left Behind had just been signed into law a year before, and the school was learning how to properly allocate its resources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

INACOL—the International North American Council for Online Learning—would henceforth be known as the Aurora Institute , a name taken from the Latin word for “dawn.” The organization wants to focus on other approaches to improve education, such as personalization, that go beyond online learning. One reason for the shift?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

She’s seen signs that online learning may create more access to higher education for some students, and she’s also come across stories of colleges pitching in to offer emergency help. Are there any other issues of access or equity, any trends that you’re seeing or expect to see?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. A virtual learning center is different than distance or online learning. Hughes emphasized, “This is not distance learning. This is human-supported learning because it is virtual.”. In the RSU 3 Virtual Learning Center , every avatar has a real person behind it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Teachers are revered , most families spend about a third of their income on their children’s education, and most students spend at least an hour a day on some kind of online learning. Beijing —China is a different world when it comes to education and tech.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2020

The teachers, I mean, they were trained up in two to three days to do remote learning. And, we’ve been looking at — what does it take to do online learning well? And it takes weeks, if not months and years, to really train teachers up in the kind of skills they need to deliver education online, well. Stephen Smith.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Flipped classroom models empower students to do classroom work at home using multimedia presentations and online learning platform resources. The app integrates with Google Drive, Classroom, and Sign-On, simplifying the online learning environment for Google districts. Zoom for Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. DeVonté Trask, 11. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Bryan Alexander

JULY 8, 2019

Cybersecurity threats, aging IT systems, increased demand for online learning and classroom technology, and difficulty attracting and retaining IT talent are putting pressure on many colleges, not just WCC. Will I be able to call them up on the day before my lab and say, ‘Can you come and update 24 laptops before tomorrow?'”

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Trends Laptops Technology Industry 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

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. They can’t access online encyclopedias. They basically can’t access online anything. Subscribe today!

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology.

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Connecting 2 the World

JUNE 21, 2011

This last meeting was on mobile technology, something that I have noticed is a growing trend in my classes. 1) One of the first speakers was a project manager for an online syllabus developer, Itellidemia. I thought students would prefer this to reading a boring article about the same topic.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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