E-rate Sparks Low-Cost Connectivity, Better Digital Learning
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 2, 2017
By EdTech Staff Once schools receive E-rate funding, innovating learning can develop.
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INTERVIEW: Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech
Neo LMS
MARCH 7, 2019
Graham Glass, CEO of CYPHER LEARNING, participated to a live event for Digital Learning Day 2019. The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech.
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Progress Made on K–12 Connectivity, But Work Remains
EdTech Magazine
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
According to the group, 98 percent of public schools have next-generation fiber infrastructure, and 96 percent have enough connectivity to support online and digital learning. . million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report. . That’s the good news.
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6 Essential educational trends to look out for in 2022
Neo LMS
JANUARY 4, 2022
Edtech tools have become a great asset for schools and universities worldwide, providing a delightful learning experience. Besides the learning trends that people are used to, there are a variety of rising digital trends that will revolutionize the learning space in 2022. DEI trends for 2022.
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School Districts Take Advantage of E-Rate’s Category One Funding
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2018
School Districts Take Advantage of E-Rate’s Category One Funding. Once its existing WAN provider wanted to charge significantly more for the same bandwidth speed, Midlothian Independent School District administrators began shopping for a faster, more affordable network — and they got one this summer with the help of E-rate fund s.
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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020
Neo LMS
DECEMBER 3, 2019
If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. With that in mind, it’s important to keep an eye on the myriad of digital education trends that are currently shaping up the industry.
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Why E-rate is critical for school technology access
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2022
Every year, schools and libraries have access to billions of dollars of funding through the FCC’s E-rate program. In this post I’ll break down the importance of E-rate, how it works, and the types of technologies it makes available that are crucial to education. The importance of E-rate.
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Content Monitoring Tools Help K–12 IT Officials Patrol Internet Boundaries
EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 3, 2018
In education, software programs lend a helping hand just about everywhere, from device management to digital learning. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about how web filters keep students safe! MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how schools are getting parents involved towards a successful 1:1 device program! eli.zimmerman_9856.
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The 5 Strategies States Should Pursue Now to Make the Most of Future EdTech Investments in ESSA
Doug Levin
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Now, Title IV is a complex, layered program and marks a significant departure in structure and operation from past federal edtech investments. This post summarizes my current thoughts on the issue in the hope that it may be useful to others in – or who work with – State Departments of Education.
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Digital Promise
APRIL 29, 2019
It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. Students and educators have more tools to create a learning environment that fosters personalized learning.
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3 Ways to Achieve a Successful School Improvement Initiative
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 14, 2018
SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! In Illinois, Cicero Public School District 99 was able to utilize E-rate funding to provide individual Chromebooks to students as part of its one-to-one education program. . Understand a Problem Instead of Just Identifying It.
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10 Edtech people to watch in 2018 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Neo LMS
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Thanks to — or because of — technology change happens at a faster rate than ever before, and education makes no exception. Edtech is always changing. Edtech trends come and go. But any of what currently happens in edtech couldn’t be possible without the driving passion for education and technology of people.
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eSchool News
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The federal E-rate program continues to provide expanded access to technology, including edtech tools, digital learning resources, and high-speed internet access, to schools, according to an annual report that takes stock of the program’s progress.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 5, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How to effectively train your teachers and faculty on utilizing a digital learning platform to its fullest
Hapara
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning platform is designed to make teaching easier by allowing educators to manage and individualize lessons and evaluate students. To get the maximum out of any digital learning platform your school uses, your operators need to be well-trained and skilled.
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Nontraditional but More Collaborative: Edtech Trends for 2019
Edsurge
DECEMBER 30, 2018
As we look ahead to the future in edtech, we see an industry marked by significant change and stubborn challenges. 2018: A Lesson Review One frustration frequently expressed by Top Hat customers has to do with a lack of coordination among edtech solutions.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 12, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 9, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 7, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 7, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 6, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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150 How to Support English Language Learners During E-Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 6, 2020
For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.
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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.
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How a Wi-Fi network upgrade can pave the way for digital learning
Education Superhighway
JANUARY 2, 2020
In addition, teachers were adding more devices and the instructional technologists were planning to integrate new technology for digital learning. Kim and the district leadership team began strategically using E-rate Category 2 funds for the Wi-Fi network upgrade. . Digital learning in every classroom, every day.
FCC adopts $200M cybersecurity pilot program
eSchool News
JUNE 21, 2024
“This pilot program represents a crucial step in providing the resources necessary to safeguard sensitive information and maintain secure, reliable access to digital learning tools. We commend the FCC for acknowledging the urgency of these issues and taking initial steps to address the cybersecurity concerns of E-rate applicants.”
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A new teacher’s perspective: Today’s best edtech resources
eSchool News
JUNE 14, 2024
During my “freshman year” in the classroom, I made it a point to ask colleagues at my school, members of my professional learning community, educators I met at conferences, and others: “What are the best edtech resources for a new teacher to engage students and ignite their curiosity about learning?”
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Best practices for managing web filtering in a digital learning environment
Hapara
MARCH 13, 2023
Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning environment offers students all kinds of options for research, class projects, collaboration, activities and assessments. So how do you manage web filtering so that it protects students but doesn’t restrict learning?
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EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 9, 2020
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
JANUARY 6, 2020
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 30, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 19, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
CoSN2020: Annual Event Focuses on Breakthrough Mindsets
EdTech Magazine
DECEMBER 17, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH : How to clear hurdles to foster true innovation in K–12 schools. MORE FROM EDTECH : K–12 education’s top tech hurdles to innovation. We hope you will stay after CoSN2020 for the EdTech Advocacy and Policy Summit in partnership with ISTE, SETDA and SIIA. We hope you will join us! March 16 to 18.
5 Tips for Improving Your Organization’s Microlearning
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Microlearning is a buzzword used widely in the edtech industry, with many learning designers simply chunking learning content into small pieces of three to five minutes without actually solving competency-based problems like learner engagement, lack of time and the shorter memory span of modern learners.
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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024
eSchool News
JANUARY 1, 2024
As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. What are the projections for edtech? This begs the question: What’s next for education?
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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. The importance of enhanced cybersecurity for schools as the FCC considers modifications to the E-rate program also emerged as a must-know.
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Virtual Virtuoso: Optimal user experience features for e-learning
Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Nevertheless, as virus rates continue to surge in many parts of the US and more and more schools are choosing to keep their buildings shuttered through at least the first half of the fall semester, it looks as though distance learning may be here to stay for a while. The key is to learn what works best for each of them.
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Majority of districts now meet FCC’s school internet connectivity goal
eSchool News
JANUARY 3, 2024
The latest statistics come from Connected Nation’s (CN) Connect K-12 Program’s 2023 Report on School Connectivity , released in collaboration with Funds For Learning (FFL). Access to technology , especially technology and tools powered by the internet, is essential for learning. Key points: U.S.
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Bringing Edtech in Rural Education
eSpark
APRIL 13, 2022
Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new edtech before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. Furthermore, Hanson noted that high quality edtech helps students, teachers, and administrators by making it easier to use student data to differentiate learning.
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52 Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds
Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 30, 2016
Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market.
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Edtech in Rural Education
eSpark
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Reflecting on his school's technology initiative, middle school principal Chris Hanson said , “(edtech) has made my life a lot easier when it comes to looking at the entire grade level of data… I can look and see exactly how long a student’s been stuck on a certain standard, how long they’ve been working on it, and if they’ve been stuck.
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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role
Doug Levin
APRIL 21, 2016
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. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role appeared first on EdTech Strategies. ” How would the program operate?
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