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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? But, how does the 2010 vision for edTech match what’s actually happening today?

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

Social media services paired with high rates of Internet connectivity allow multiple forms of information—web links, videos, audio files, images, text messages, and documents—to be delivered and consumed in multiple ways. Ferriter, W, Ramsden, J, & Sheninger, E. See figure 1.1 for a visual.) Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

In 2010, Northern Arizona University began using a math placement test for incoming students and found many of them struggled to achieve needed proficiency. Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Much like Fulé did. Why the focus on low-income and first-generation students?

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. affordances of mobile Web 2.0.

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How K–12 Schools Can Use Next-Generation Content Filtering to Keep Students Safe

EdTech Magazine

Congress passed the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in 2000, tying E-rate program discounts to a school’s internet safety policy. One-to-one programs really started birthing right around 2010–2012. How K–12 Schools Can Use Next-Generation Content Filtering to Keep Students Safe. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The Complete Cognitive Science Behind Brainscape

Brainscape

Enter Brainscape , a cutting-edge web and mobile study platform designed to optimize knowledge retention through the power of cognitive science. For centuries, educators have sought the most effective ways to enhance learning, from one-on-one tutoring to modern classroom instruction.

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