Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Community providers, such as the University AME Zion Church (UAMEZ) in Palo Alto, California, understand that digital literacy development, like any learning, starts with building trust in the community and meeting learners where they are. A Closer Look at Four Categories of Digital Literacy for Adult Learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2013

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 19, 2013. Hundreds of educators from over ten different states and Canada descended upon my school last year to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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Conference Strategy Digital Learning Student Engagement 238

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 2, 2020

In May 2013 a tornado devastated the community of Moore, Oklahoma. In addition, teachers were adding more devices and the instructional technologists were planning to integrate new technology for digital learning. Digital learning in every classroom, every day. Time for a Wi-Fi network upgrade.

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Digital Learning E-rate BYOD Secondary 93

Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

Previous research has shown that most users of online education look fairly similar to the average college graduate — suggesting that digital learning isn’t yet the great educational equalizer it has the potential to be.

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Study Digital Learning Data Outcomes 236

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

connected learning audit (personal analysis of our analog and digital learning connections); our connectedness outside of school; connected learning in schools (lots of examples!), crowdsourced learning and resource production. Learn about robust, technology-infused learning at the 2013 Iowa 1:1 Institute.

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Future Ready Blended Learning Analysis Digital Learning 217

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Several of my students in this age group entered middle school with the same background knowledge they had before the year and a half of digital learning. The reality is that many of them didn’t. history lesson, for example, my seventh graders were doing a round-robin reading of a passage about the Compromise of 1850.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the digital learning gap. 2013) The Science of the Individual. Rouhani, P., & Fischer, K.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. The organization’s blog offers useful insights and advice on classroom technologies, digital citizenship, personalized learning and more. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Jaime Donally.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) aims to clear up the murky waters surrounding the adoption of digital learning materials, a process that varies wildly between states. Occasionally the state will also partner with companies to provide materials or services to districts free of charge.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

For the past seven years, he sat in arguably the hottest of the hot seats in the education industry, tasked with changing the world’s biggest education brand from a largely print-based to digital-focused company. Part of Fallon’s job was to trim the legacy parts of the business and reorient the company around digital learning services.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

We’re excited for the opportunity to share our work and highlight possibilities for the future of education, covering topics such as educational equity, the power of digital learning, workforce development, Challenge Based Learning, and inclusive innovation. Connected: The Power of Digital Learning Every Day.

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MSEDTechie

JANUARY 9, 2013

I am so excited about Digital Learning Day February 6, 2013! Hello: Digital Learning Day is right around the corner. As a registered Digital Learning Day participant you’ll receive exclusive information including ways to participate and tips for incorporating digital tools into your daily instruction.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 2, 2015

Selfie was the word of the year for 2013 (Brumfield, 2013). This example illustrates the power of our digital acts and choices. It is important we help our students create meaningful messages and learn to effectively collaborate and respect their peers. Selfie named word of the year for 2013. intefshelly.

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VLE Online Learning ePortfolio Digital Badges 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Instructure announced it has reached an agreement to sell Bridge to Learning Technologies Group, a London, U.K.-based based provider of digital learning and talent development tools for businesses and employees. Corporate learning is also a large and fragmented market, with many more competing providers than in higher education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Harvard’s business school launched its first online courses in 2013 in a unit it called HBX. Kenny, a spokesperson for what was then HBX, told The Chronicle of Higher Education back in 2013. From now on the school will instead refer to its online offerings under a more straightforward banner, Harvard Business School Online.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 30, 2019

Robust broadband that fully supports digital learning requires that each part of a district’s network be working in unison and at full capacity. If one or more of the pieces of the network is broken or underperforming, then high-speed broadband and therefore rich, digital learning content cannot reach students’ devices.

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Broadband Digital Learning Accessibility Meeting 108

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2021

Just: Twenty years ago, we launched a significant commitment to digital learning, starting with our online school. Then, we rolled out significant digital content adoptions in 2011, and by 2013, we’d created a four-year initiative to implement one-to-one Chromebooks for all grade levels. Pete Just Recommended Resources.

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Accessibility Digital Learning Data Chromebook 167

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2021

The publicly traded, game-based learning company announced Thursday that it was acquiring Clever, a digital learning platform used widely among K-12 schools in the U.S. For Kahoot, which launched in 2013, the deal could be a boon. Kahoot, it seems, is just heating up.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Principals at blended learning schools agree digital content increases student engagement. Among the teachers in these classrooms, 50% or more stated that because of digital learning, students are: Working together more often. More motivated to learn. Taking greater ownership of their learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 1, 2018

Savvy’s dad and I met at the ISTE Conference in San Antonio in 2013 and our PLN was a huge part of our story. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

million students earn credentials through more-flexible and affordable digital learning options. It’s also not the first online learning initiative introduced by Gov. Jerry Brown called for spending $120 million to create the online institution within the 114-campus California Community College system. Previously, Gov.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2018

Today I will share with you a more specific example of how an elementary school in California, Woodcrest Elementary School, of the Fullerton School District, has created wonderful digital learning environments for its K1 learners, specifically in the area of literacy. In 2013 Leslie M.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

The acquisition of Kidaptive is one of several McGraw Hill has made since it became an independent company in 2013, with a focus on strengthening the company’s capabilities in adaptive and digital learning. Those include ALEKS Corporation in 2013, the LearnSmart technology in 2014 and Redbird Advanced Learning in 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the worst offenses of bad blended learning programs is simply not creating a strong blend between digital and non-digital learning. Some school systems think that providing students with a digital learning program to replace in-class instruction will eliminate the problems of poor teaching.

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Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 148

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

According to EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that studies this issue, 98 percent of American K-12 school districts having broadband infrastructure and internet access for digital learning. The technology is there,” Sanchez says. And we have made an incredible investment in technology.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom. By the summer of 2018, all schools in the state are expected to be digital ready, which will open the door for innovation in schools that reaches all students, regardless of their zip code.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As digital learning transforms education across the country, how can board members ensure that their policies and budget decisions support digital learning opportunities and the robust infrastructure needed to support it? Learn more. Can teachers easily integrate digital learning initiatives?

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Digital Learning Future Ready Broadband Digital Divide 45

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2015

Selfie was the word of the year for 2013 (Brumfield, 2013). This example illustrates the power of our digital acts and choices. It is important we help our students create meaningful messages and learn to effectively collaborate and respect their peers. Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges.

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Educreations Digital Badges Mobility Groups 150

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

The funding requested by schools reached nearly $5 billion in 2012 and 2013, according to District Administration magazine. Meanwhile, Riverside used their $9 million E-rate subsidy to purchase mobile learning devices equipped with 4G data connectivity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Loosely defined as affordable programs with strong learning and career outcomes, hybrid colleges often share three design principles: intensive wrap-around student support that directly meets student needs; digital learning programs (often competency-based); and sustainable funding that does not ask students to carry significant debt.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Today, 98 percent of public schools have next-generation fiber infrastructure, and 96 percent have enough internet connectivity to make digital learning possible in classrooms, says ESH CEO Evan Marwell in the report’s introduction. Since 2013, 40.7 million students have reached that access speed.

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Accessibility Digital Learning Report Classroom 74

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). It’s the beginning of the end of the road for EducationSuperHighway.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Launched in 2013, Kahoot offers a web-based and mobile app that allows anyone to create and partake in multiple-choice quizzes, which are accompanied by playful animations and sounds reminiscent of a game show. Examples of things that Kahoot could be interested in, Furuseth says, include math, language-learning and coding education tools.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 22, 2019

million teachers in 83,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning. These key stakeholders came together with the common goal of increasing bandwidth to allow students to truly take advantage of the educational possibilities that come with digital learning, and the progress is already paying off.

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Broadband Digital Divide Digital Learning Report 69

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. In the next 24 months, you’re going to see more public companies in the digital learning space,” Moe predicts. And for investors, they’re betting not on a company, but rather on the SPAC’s executive team to buy the right one.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Since I first moved to Finland in 2013, I have witnessed an ever-deepening societal problem that has devastated student learning. Childhood has become dominated by digital devices. Finland is now one of the leaders in using digital devices at school, ranking sixth overall in the 2022 PISA study.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

By Kathleen Costanza Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort.

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