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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

” To help increase digital literacy awareness in underserved communities, Broadband Rhode Island , a partner with RIFLI, created a curriculum in 2011 for adult education teachers to promote digital literacy among adult learners. As a result, Ms.

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

There is also a web-based component available to the teachers that contains resource libraries and discussion forums that I plan to use not only with the classroom walkthrough data, but also our PLC''s. In another mobile device area I recently submitted a grant for a mobile iPad learning lab. If you can make it, register now!

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How m-learning is transforming online education

Neo LMS

That trend is called m-learning , otherwise known as Mobile Learning. According to one recent study conducted by Pew Research Center , nearly 77% of Americans now own a smartphone of some kind – up from just 35% a few years ago, in 2011. If they didn’t have a computer, they had to go to a library or a friend’s house.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? “There will be more momentum for mobile devices in classrooms with an eye toward affordable alternatives to traditional 1:1 rollouts.” However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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Libraries without walls

Learning with 'e's

I recently wrote about how libraries are adapting to the digital age. The traditional library is viewed by many as a place for stacks of books to gather dust, and where stern librarians in tweed jackets tell you to keep quiet. In Library 2.0 In Library 2.0 Was this a trend that was a threat to the library?

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Find New Resources For Your Classroom With eduTecher

The Web20Classroom

There is a wonderful site (run by a very dear friend of mine, Adam, who was the 2011 ISTE Outstanding Young Educator , so you know this place has to be top notch.) Because there are mobile apps that provide you on-the-go access to the entire library of sites in the eduTecher database. And it''s true. Well, lucky you.

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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

Edsurge

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources.