The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Tune in to discover why esports might just be the missing piece in your educational toolkit and how you can start a program at your school. Danielle has 15 years of experience in Texas public education in both middle and high school, but will always identify as a middle school World Cultures teacher. from Texas Tech University.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

As he was searching for ways to use state match funding to affordably upgrade his district’s Internet access, Dr. Williams consulted with State E-rate Coordinator Milan Eaton and sought the support of the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative. Revised E-rate RFP Strategy. Leveraged Price Comparisons.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

This year, school districts seeking broadband upgrades are contending with the shortest-ever E-rate filing window, which means that there are just a few weeks left for service providers to find and bid on school district network services. Luckily, Compare & Connect K-12 can help. Identify Districts in Need.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 9, 2019

Effective network improvement projects are complex and require educational alignment, careful budgeting, and stakeholder management to be successful. Creating a shared understanding of educational goals ensures that decision-makers are all working to achieve the same outcomes. Your team should include: 1.

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eSpark

AUGUST 8, 2023

OpenAI, the organization behind ChatGPT and the Dall-E image generator, has been particularly scrutinized since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022. The same cultural issues that result in underrepresentation, stereotyping, and polarization across society are intrinsically present in the very makeup of an AI model’s “education.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. With more E-Rate data comes a more detailed picture for the state of internet connectivity. million more students than in last year’s report, and a staggering 30.9

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

Educators know that with springtime comes state assessments and testing—something that more and more states are mandating to be completed online. Darby School District ’s leaders are committed to using digital learning to expand students’ educational opportunities and improve academic performance.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2016

Lubbock ISD’s successful investment in infrastructure to support them in the longterm is one of many examples of school districts taking advantage of the new E-rate modernization rules. Check out our Fiber Toolkit for free tools and resources including the RFP templates Lubbock used and the “Build Vs. Buy” comparison tool.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. Whitepaper: The State of Digital Content in Global K-12 Education. Are eTextbooks The Next Big Thing in K-12 Education?

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

Before, librarians or education leaders could say, well, we think that most of the schools that have a high number of Hispanic students don’t have school librarians. Many librarians and education leaders will say that we’re losing school librarians because library aides and paraprofessionals are now being hired to run the library.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As a result, we added new features that increase the tool’s power and ease of use, including: Revamped comparison tools using maps and filters that allow school districts to view how their broadband services and prices equate to those of neighboring school districts, as well as other school districts across the state.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As a result, we added new features that increase the tool’s power and ease of use, including: Revamped comparison tools using maps and filters that allow school districts to view how their broadband services and prices equate to those of neighboring school districts, as well as other school districts across the state.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 15, 2016

In Appomattox County Schools in Virginia, for example, Technology Director Brette Arbogast used Compare & Connect K-12 to view price comparisons which allowed him to negotiate an upgrade of 4x more bandwidth at zero additional cost.

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Some debated the merits of MOOCs, high attrition rates and the legitimacy of participating without completing a course. An inevitable comparison was made between the earlier cMOOCs (which were largely connectivist and student centred in their ethos) and the later xMOOCs (which are more commercially oriented and arguably less student centred).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S. Some educators and advocates have begun to argue that more shared information and pricing transparency would help schools save money.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2017

Many schools and community organizations try to boost FAFSA completion rates by emphasizing the financial benefits of completing the FAFSA. By comparison, we found the nudges that emphasized the financial benefits of the FAFSA did not increase college enrollment. Related: Column E-Counseling 2.0:

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Savvy practitioners in the field of education should be dissatisfied with this simplistic “checkbox” approach to evaluating program effectiveness. Savvy practitioners in the field of education should be dissatisfied with this simplistic “checkbox” approach to evaluating program effectiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Her parents, like many Mexican immigrant families, didn’t believe in taking out loans, even for education. They both believe that having Hispanic teachers might have made a difference in their education. Anna Egalite, education professor at North Carolina State University. Graphic: Davin McHenry. Hispanics account for 21.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 12, 2018

One of the reasons education systems consider academic/technical streaming is because of the concept of “future proofed work”. The defining feature of the Apprenticeship and T Levels is that T levels are offered by education providers, and are by-and-large classroom-based, whereas Apprenticeships are fundamentally work-based training.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Under the fiscal 2017 budget, approved by lawmakers in April, allocations for the state’s public schools will still be about $172 million below what is considered full funding, according to figures from the state Department of Education. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi. Census data.

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Brainscape

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Affectionately dubbed the “Mother-of-all exams” by some wine nerds, the WSET Diploma’s third module (D3) on the principal still wines of the world is the Olympus Mons of the WSET solar system, making the other modules look like mildly inflamed pimples in comparison. What happens next?

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” The Department of Education’s press release has more.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. 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. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

This story is the last story in a six-part series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children. Caring for and educating young children are intimately tied together. Hillary Clinton reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to a preschool class at a YMCA in Rochester, New Hampshire on June 15, 2015.

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