Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Learner access to computers at home is limited, while access to mobile phones is high. Because of this, access to and use of online learning software—particularly those that are not mobile-optimal—tends to be limited to time spent within the learning facility.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Gaps also exist between high-performing and low-performing public schools based on differences in access to funding and resources, community engagement and commitment, and the ability and willingness of district and school leaders to embrace innovation and try new strategies. school and library to the internet.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

Mon, 04/09/2018 - 10:23. Microsoft Learning Tools Enhance Accessibility. I created a OneNote Class Notebook for each of these groups and I can put program information for them in the content library and easily update it as needed. 5 Microsoft OneNote Tips Every Educator Should Know. jena.passut_7651. students in my program.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 5, 2018

Mon, 03/05/2018 - 08:46. Only when access to technology is consistent and predictable will teachers be willing to incorporate digital tools into their planning. Many school districts fund essential networking upgrades through the federal Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund , more commonly referred to as E-rate.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:07. Edtech spoke with Leila Nuland, managing research director for K-12 at Hanover research to discuss some of the trends surrounding computer science in K–12 and how to overcome issues of accessibility and underrepresentation in certain populations. There are enough challenges with equitable access.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 10, 2025

Well-Being to Improve Productivity and Service Quality An Affordable 4-Month Series with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 Well-Being to Improve Productivity and Service Quality An Affordable 4-Month Series with Loida Garcia-Febo The Library 2.0 Anyone signing up mid-series will have immediate access to the previous session recordings.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Even with little access to technology teachers can add background music to a story or show students a short clip to spark conversation or inspire ideas for writing. I regularly share free web tools, resources, and tips on ESL Library to help teachers find great resources to use with their learners.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

12, 2018 | Updated 11:02 a.m. Accessed 4.17.18 Accessed 4.17.18 Accessed 4.17.18 nacesports.org, February 27, 2018. Accessed 4.17.18 The post How to Start a High School Esports Team & Benefit Your School appeared first on ViewSonic Library. What you need to know about esports.USA TODAY.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Accessibility to computing power is no longer constrained by time and place. School Computer Labs Ensure Equitable Access. The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. In middle schools, 37% of the students lack individual 1:1 device access.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

But these days the question is how publishers can afford to produce them at all, especially as the main customers for those books—academic libraries—face ever-shrinking budgets, and the open-access movement has pumped up expectations that scholarship should be shared as widely and cheaply as possible.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 26, 2019

In an age of digital formats, quick texts (and the associated degradation of spelling and grammar), online content, blogs and posts, many in the education, publishing and library sectors — as well as broader cultural institutions — are wondering and worrying about the future of literature. By 2018 the NEA had much better news.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In July 2018, representatives from 10 Pittsburgh-area schools excitedly gathered with the goal of growing maker learning opportunities as the Southwest Pennsylvania Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. This growth was keenly obvious during Butler’s scheduled site visit.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

CLEVELAND – June 7, 2022 – Digital book access for reading and listening for K-12 students has reached a milestone. Students using the free Sora student reading app have now accessed more than 100 million books from their school’s digital collections since Sora launched in 2018.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2018

There’s no “typical” day for a library media specialist. For 21st-century media specialists, the idea of the library as a quiet space is out and creating new opportunities for deeper learning with students is in. Next page: Best practices and predictions for library media specialists in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

The biggest danger that higher education faces as a sector, though, is the loss of gains that we have made over the past 20 years in access to a college education — with all of the accompanying benefits to individuals and our entire society — for first-generation and minority students. Now is not the time to lose focus.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Content filtering and web monitoring software aim to prevent students from accessing inappropriate materials online, and many options also include features to alert school leaders to cyberbullying and other instances in which students’ digital communications or web activity might indicate troubling behavior. A majority of U.S.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 5, 2020

However, if you’re not into the idea of social media, Youtube, or a public blog, you can use a simple library of items that students can have access to such as Google Drive, or something more advanced such as your school’s learning management system. In 2018, I only managed 29. The results? But don’t quote me on this one.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2019

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. Fast forward to 2018, how many schools in the world can actually say that they executed this? Extended Access to Education. We will explore them together in the next section of this article.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Those were all takeaways from the ITHAKA Next Wave 2018 conference, held here last week. Attendees from academic libraries and scholarly publishing explored how higher education will have to adapt to changing demographics, rising inequality and continuing tensions between big commercial companies and their academic customers.

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Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

Many of us remember heading to the library to gather books and printed articles for our school projects. Libraries, of course, still hold a wealth of information, but now learners can go beyond the library walls. In 2018 the Pew Center reported that 58% of American teens had experienced cyberbullying. Cyberbullying.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

Go to www.coolcatteacher.com/edtech and plan your professional development for 2018. Date: January 5, 2018. But I’m talking about the research tool for Google Books that gives you access to millions of titles that are in the public domain. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 30, 2020

Colleges and universities have huge libraries stacked with books. Brick and mortar libraries are still standing strong and are maintained by educational institutions. But let’s be practical here, how often are students excited at the prospect of going to the library to search for a book? Benefits for Institutions 1.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Keep reading to check out brief summaries of our proposed panels, and click each link you’re interested in to “Vote Up” that submission, now through August 30, 2018. How do we bring school operators and community organizations together to attain critical mass and sustainable change in pursuit of equal access and opportunity for all students?

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

When planning lessons or choosing books for your classroom library , it’s important to include stories that both reflect the experiences of your students and provide them with insights into the experiences of others. 4] You can carry that into lesson plans, activities, and books in the classroom library. October 5, 2018.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Date: January 17, 2018. Julie: Well, I am very passionate about the fact that I think that all children should have equal access to education. All Children Should Have Equal Access To Education. Some children have access to quality education, and some children don’t. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Cengage is now betting its digital business on an annual subscription that gives students unlimited access to all of its digital textbook materials, along with online homework tools and study guides. Earlier this February, it claimed to have sold 1 million such subscriptions since the program was launched in August 2018.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 2, 2018

The post The Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library! The FREE, Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library Has Arrived! New for 2018, the Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library of FREE Downloads ! To make things more accessible, I have created the Shake Up Learning Members-Only Library ! More Coming in 2018!

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite decades of research consistently showing positive correlations between high-quality programs and achievement, patterns suggest, for today’s children and for children to come, a school library-rich future is, or potentially will not be, evenly distributed. In 2018-19, there were more than 42,000 school librarians in the U.S—almost

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2018

Indeed, the predominant business models of the educational technology and publishing industries have been predicated on the concept of access limitations and scarcity. ” CC BY-SA, 2018. Petrides, L., and Watson, C.E. “The Care Framework for OER Stewardship.” Available online at www.careframework.org.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. billion people worldwide without internet access. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

According to a 2018 report by Pew Research , one in four Americans didn’t read a single book in the last year, and bookstore chains are in decline. It’s considered by pundits that the shift in access via smartphones has caused a mutation in content consumption away from only books and long-form reading. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 28, 2021

How should equity work proceed in a school district where one student’s racist act and an inclusive school library program both have stirred up controversy and front-page headlines? When a small number of LGBTQ books were added to school libraries as part of this process, more controversy and headlines resulted.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books.

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Tom Murray

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Tip #3 – Ensure that classroom resources and libraries are diverse in nature. There has been a large push in recent years, and rightfully so, to ensure that there is access to diverse literature. 2018), the issues of “Individualization” (Flexibility and Student Ownership), Stimulation […].

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