eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

To help schools, parents and caregivers meet the needs of their early learners and further empower their learning journey toward school readiness, Gale, a Cengage company has made major enhancements to Miss Humblebee’s Academy , its award-winning interactive online learning solution for children ages three to six.

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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. Before long, Moiso found he had created a video library useful in any setting.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Estrella Rodriguez, a pregnant community college student with her 5-year-old daughter, Nevaeh, is grateful for the women who bought her diapers when they saw her on line at Costco, but also anxious to get her laptop computer back from her shuttered campus. Photo by Uvaldo Rodriguez. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Emergency online teaching. Or just plain online learning. There’s just one problem: millions of students in the country don’t have a reliable way to get online. Already, the Northshore School District in Washington, the first in the country to move to emergency online instruction, has hit pause on the plan citing equity.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2023

What is a Digital Learning Platform? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has given a major boost to online education. How Do Digital Learning Platforms Foster Students' Overall Academic Growth?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The changing market also sets the stage for the emergence of new types of technology solutions and partnerships. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Prior to the pandemic, learning in the workplace was already growing to include more technology-enabled “ microlearning ” that was less formal and less structured than traditional training programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

We need to look at this like any other utility,” said Christopher Rush, the director of educational technology for the U.S. Fifty-six percent of families said their internet was too slow to properly participate in online learning. Twelve percent of families still have no computer at home. “We An additional $7.17

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

When the Covid-19 pandemic forced schools to pivot to remote learning, Nawar Almadani and her family weren’t sure what they’d do. They didn’t own a laptop, and even when they got two from school — one from the city for the kids, the other from Almadani’s program — they had to share.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms.

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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

JUNE 8, 2020

We already knew there was a digital divide, but we avoided fixing the fundamental inequities by counting on students to search out libraries, computer labs and coffee shops, or to complete college work with only a cell phone or shared computer. This current pot of money serves many needs, from K-12 schools to libraries and telemedicine.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. Some slid into depression.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 8, 2021

What are digital learning platforms? Gone are the days when learning was restricted to the classroom, with the instructor being the primary source of knowledge. The ongoing COVID 19 pandemic has given a major boost to online education. Students don’t have to worry if the school library or lab is closed. In conclusion.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). ” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly.

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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. There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots. Coronavirus gave many just days. on April 10, 2020.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 22, 2023

As digital technology expands its reach, more and more educational institutions including schools and colleges are adopting etextbooks to impart knowledge. Immersive Learning & Higher Retention Interactive technologies like AR and VR can make learning fun, experiential and impactful.

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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. . Instagram also offers a tip sheet for creating an Instagram Live as well. .

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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. Educational contents in dynamic videos cover hundreds of topics relevant to learning material used in a blended classroom or flipped classroom. Khan Academy. Doceri For iPad.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

There is a heightened focus on remote learning and online classes. While online learning brings many benefits to students and teachers alike, it also comes with higher cybersecurity threats. They can be placed as attachments in phishing emails or viruses inside digital libraries and other unexpected places.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

He finds online learning boring, but says he is “learning a lot.” In September, online learning got off to a rocky start. But even though Marc found online learning boring, he said, “I’m learning a lot.” With math, he could turn to an online calculator for help. Credit: Marc.

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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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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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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. Winchester Public Schools (VA) has taken a scaffolding approach to technology.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Use for teachers and students!

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 18, 2021

Watch this quick video to learn how! Quick Tip Video Library. Subscribe to Shake Up Learning on YouTube. OR, watch it on TikTok! You can’t record if you join the meeting only to present, such as from a laptop while already in a video conference room. Have you ever needed to mute noisy notifications in a tab in Chrome?

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. Three days to gather online resources so aligned instruction could continue to take place. Three days! Imagine that!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Like the Library 2.011 and GlobalEdCon conferences, I''m planning on holding a (free) worldwide virtual Future of Education: Learning 2.0 So, here''s my tentative Learning 2.0 I''ve purposely left out the library and global education categories because of the other two conference. conference January 23 - 27, 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Pane is among a wave of education watchers getting excited by the idea that technology may finally offer a solution to the historic constraints of one-to-many teaching. It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? .

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. See you "online!" Her passion for smart entertainment has lead her around the world, speaking on the role of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) programming on television.

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