ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Keep reading to learn about six of the most significant benefits of immersive, metaverse learning, or head over to UNIVERSE , by ViewSonic and see the latest in metaverse education. This technology can also cater to a variety of other needs too.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Library media specialists and IT teams can work toward a common mission. Information technology (IT) departments in the K-12 environment have historically operated as their own separate entities, making decisions about, providing support for, and overseeing the successful implementation of hardware and software on campus.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New resources demonstrate libraries’ need for ed-tech partners. Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is offering three new science products for academic and school libraries. Access through computers, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards or a projector.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Hotspots Heat Up In the past week, many internet service providers, responding to the Federal Communications Commission’s “ Keep Americans Connected ” pledge, are waiving late fees for existing customers and increasing data caps for mobile hotspots, which link devices such as laptops to smartphones to provide internet access for both devices.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

But first there will be DLAC, the Digital Learning Annual Conference , set for June 14 to 16 in Austin, Texas—with a parallel track running online. It’s what’s known as a “hybrid” conference, blending both live and virtual elements similar to how many schools slowly filtered back to full-time learning last fall.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

And depending on their background and experience, not everyone is supportive of tech-infused learning. Next, once the mission is clear, leaders should work with the tech team and teachers to ensure that the technology will meet those goals. In fact, every message about the technology should be focused on the students and their needs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. The school’s one-to-one iPad program gives every student a sixth-generation iPad and every teacher a MacBook Air laptop and iPad Pro device.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

A couple of decades ago, when I was dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small STEM college on the Hudson with a view of mid-Manhattan, we polled our digital students about why they chose to enroll as virtual learners. Did they come to our virtual classrooms for the strength of our faculty?

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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. Only, now it doesn’t matter.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Technology has penetrated every aspect of life, and education is no exception. As more and more teachers, students, and stakeholders experiment with technology, software developers are working day and night to bring them quality solutions. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

I only have to dig out my laptop when I need to write instead of just read. Die-hard believers of print books for education are mostly arguing from a familiarity view, and the fact that textbooks are often constructed without regard to digital formatting. I don’t get it, so I started poking around.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

In its 2016 National Education Technology Plan, the Department of Education emphasizes model approaches to digital learning. The new plan lays out model ways of using educational technology in the nation’s classrooms, with a focus on equity and active use.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Question : Are we taking brand new disruptive technologies and trying to force them into old models? The emerging model in business today is BYO3 - Bring Your Own Laptop/Tablet/Phone We are coming to a price point where schools can provide small tablets and allow students to bring their own devices for learning as well.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. They’re amazing.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

When teens enter The Mix at the San Francisco Public Library, 19-year-old Dayra Banales is quick to step up and offer a tour, walking visitors past a row of new computers and through studios filled with video and audio equipment. The Mix is a new 4,770-square-foot digital media center on the second floor of the city’s main library.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Instead it seems to be a learning strategy, sometimes driven by state governments.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For this reason, publishers usually opt for a content delivery platform that is compatible with multiple operating systems and on different devices- be it a smartphone, tablet, laptop or a desktop computer. Growing up amidst technology, K-12 students are now quite used to getting things done at the click of a button. You May Also Like.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Screens and digital media are everywhere, from everyday tech like TVs, phones, and gaming consoles to the laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other tech we use in school. Kids of all ages are consuming and producing more digital media than ever before. Of course, not all screen time is created equal.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2019

Schools and universities understand the power of digital technology that kids find so appealing. There are academics who are of the opinion that digital technology cannot beat traditional learning methods. Students from K to 12 th grade are no strangers to the presence of technology around them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Steve Kossakoski, CEO, Virtual Learning Academy in New Hampshire.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Suffice it to say, college students aren’t always on task or pay attention in college classes, especially those on laptops. She’s used it since 2015 to share presentations in her classes and has also taught aspiring K-12 STEM teachers how they can use Nearpod in their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Meaning people learning from each other. Grace Magley, director of digital learning, Natick (Mass.)

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They can be placed as attachments in phishing emails or viruses inside digital libraries and other unexpected places. These include laptops, desktops, smartphones, or tablets that students use to enhance digital learning. Installing Malware. Zoombombing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

When her middle school opened for a few minutes the next day, the seventh grade English teacher and creator of the Global Read-Aloud grabbed all the books she could from her classroom library, before the school closed for the foreseeable future. . millions of students out of school, at least until the end of April.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

They address the four critical areas that school leaders must address as outlined in the Leadership for Digital Learning Initiative —technological platforms, human platforms, program management, and communications with all internal and external stakeholders. About the Host.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom. Starring You® and Learning Books – 90+ eBooks that help kids practice reading.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The new computers are one of the most noticeable changes among several technology updates taking place while school’s out for the summer. The influx of technology brings the district’s technology ratio to one device for every two students, which is lower than the previous ratio of roughly one device for every three students. —The

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 19, 2012

Now that the digital revolution is in full swing, I am trying to devise means for moving to a paperless and digital classroom while facing the following challenges: Availability of technology: there is a reason why I''m focused on BYOD with this blog; I do not teach in a 1:1 district. Changing technology: Web 2.0

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

“We are very fortunate to have a school district that supports technology in the classroom and provides extended computer lab hours, one-to-one access to laptops and desktops, and online learning resources for teachers to enrich their curriculum and lesson plans.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2015

But when it comes to more traditional needs, like writing, laptop or desktop computers are still the way to go (or so the conventional wisdom says). Kidspiration’s vast library of more than 3,000 symbols helps children plan and organize their stories using pictures to complement their words.

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