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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E–Rate Updates Free Up Resources for New Classroom Technology Projects
EdTech Magazine
JULY 16, 2019
E–Rate Updates Free Up Resources for New Classroom Technology Projects. Recent updates to E-rate, which put more focus on funding high-speed internet and network protection tools , have helped K–12 schools reallocate resources to improve other focus areas. . When E-rate 2.0 eli.zimmerman_9856. billion to $3.9
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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?
Neo LMS
AUGUST 23, 2022
What if there is a way to give each one of these students something tailored to their needs to boost their learning engagement ? Modern edtech such as an intelligent learning platform (ILP) can help you achieve this by creating a personalized learning environment. . What is personalized learning?
INTERVIEW: Digital learning trends that are reshaping EdTech
Neo LMS
MARCH 7, 2019
The event was hosted by Phill Bevan, Community Advisor at VETR , a digital learning community for the Australian vocational education and training sector. Phill and Graham had a wonderful conversation on the topic of e-learning and explored six key digital learning trends that are reshaping the EdTech landscape.
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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 20, 2019
MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out where K–12 schools can turn to secure funding for personalized learning programs. Educate Stakeholders About Cost Comparisons and Success Stories. IT leaders must present a solid business case — sometimes with creative approaches, like the one Phillips took — but also by explaining the finances.
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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. Tracking students’ emotions. Wrapping up.
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What Gartner’s Top Tech Trends for 2019 Mean for Education
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
As K–12 schools continue their E-rate processes for 2019, districts should be considering what tools are worth investing in to provide their students with the best outcomes in the coming year. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out what administrators should consider when integrating new education technology!
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417 How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools
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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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond
Neo LMS
JUNE 28, 2022
Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. . Read more: How to write SMART learning objectives in your LMS. Personalized learning paths .
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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. The post The 5 Strategies States Should Pursue Now to Make the Most of Future EdTech Investments in ESSA appeared first on EdTech Strategies.
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231 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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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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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)
Doug Levin
APRIL 23, 2017
Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. It offers a more experiential learning experience.
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3 Ways to Achieve a Successful School Improvement Initiative
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 14, 2018
After deliberation, they determined their goal was to shift to smaller, more personalized learning. . SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! School leaders and teachers took a step back and examined what they wanted for their students.
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Doug Levin
APRIL 23, 2017
Last week, the “Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News” was on vacation, amongst the tall trees of the northwestern coast, and mostly off the grid. The pace of additions should be concerning to anyone who cares about personalized learning and/or student data privacy. It offers a more experiential learning experience.
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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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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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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)
Doug Levin
JULY 24, 2017
Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition).
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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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Majority of districts now meet FCC’s school internet connectivity goal
eSchool News
JANUARY 3, 2024
A critical finding is that school districts that are meeting the 1 Mbps per student goal are also getting access at a much lower rate than those districts not meeting that benchmark,” said Emily Jordan, Vice President of Education Initiatives, CN. “In
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Personalized Learning Into Rural Schools
Edsurge
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Could personalized learning and the use of technology fundamentally change rural student outcomes? In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. How It Could Help.
Why Joliet District 86 uses Hāpara for digital classroom management
Hapara
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Technology has to enhance learning. It either has to increase the rate of how I can accomplish something, or it has to be something that is benefiting the student in how they’re gaining knowledge and skills. Discover why vetting edtech tools for inclusivity matters, and unlock strategies to leverage edtech for inclusivity.
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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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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online
Hapara
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Teachers may also customize digital textbooks to create a personalized learning experience. Some websites are dedicated to K-12 learning, while others feature textbooks for all learning levels or high school and college. TextBookGo is a website that has free e-textbooks that teachers and students can download.
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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024
eSchool News
JANUARY 5, 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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Admins need PD too— Insights on CoSN’s CTO Academy
eSchool News
APRIL 5, 2024
Details for the program: The CTO Academy For K-12 Early Career and Aspiring CTOs is a program to address the needs of education technology leaders who are new (less than four full years) to their CTO or Technology Leadership position or aspiring CTOs and EdTech leaders currently working in a technology department. Hopefully great for you in.
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104 Why We Don't Need a 'Netflix for Education'
Edsurge
AUGUST 13, 2016
If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. Supporting student learning, however, necessitates a very different approach.
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Role of ICT in higher education in the 21st century
Linways Technologies
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
allow to implement continuous learning processes in diff erent learning contexts and provide on-demand support to students. Let’s see how ICTs enable the implementation of the abovementi oned components of personalized learning in the classroom. Using ICTs for assessment of learning. New role of teacher.
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Unlocking the Gate to Better Learning
EdNews Daily
JULY 8, 2019
It’s important to note that normalized gifted programs and lowest-common-denominator whole group teaching are usually not individualized or personalized learning in the same way that software could enable it. This is similar to the comments anyone can see on Amazon or other major e-commerce hubs about any product.
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Importance of Technology in the Classroom
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
Key points: Edtech significantly enhances the classroom experience Technology deserves its place in the classroom Stay up to date on the latest in education technology Education technology in the classroom is essential for modern education, offering dynamic tools that enhance learning. How does technology help students learn?
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The Human EdTech for Diversity
EdNews Daily
JULY 10, 2019
EdTech that pretests for Lexile level then offers a range of books and monitors page progress has the ability to pinpoint possibly misunderstood material using such algorithms. By definition, it’s the “motion” of “e.” Schools everywhere are experiencing massive attrition rates. It can’t, however, offer love. Click to tweet.
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204 A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)
Doug Levin
MARCH 19, 2017
A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). If it’s free to play with, and easy to learn about through communities working to improve the open source code, the assumption is that more people (and younger people) will start to get interested in working with AI. Strong opinions may be weakly held.
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition)
Doug Levin
JULY 31, 2017
As such, expect an abbreviated (TBD) publishing schedule for ‘A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News’ in August. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition). " Tagged on: July 26, 2017 Can personalized learning prevail? Strong opinions may be weakly held.
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How to develop K-12 open educational resources
Hapara
AUGUST 8, 2022
In general, OER was rated ‘considerably better on multiple specific aspects of teaching and learning, such as extending the core knowledge to novel tasks and situations and collaborating with others.’” . Or a history teacher on the opposite side of the country could use your video to personalize learning for a group of students.
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)
Doug Levin
APRIL 9, 2017
On twitter, I also ponder the trend of tech-savvy teachers increasingly resembling NASCAR drivers, proudly wearing digital uniforms on social media full of sponsored messages as proof of expertise: Why do some in K-12 define #edtech expertise by # of tech company certifications acquired? What does it mean to be an XYZ-certifed educator?
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61 predictions about edtech, equity, and learning in 2022
eSchool News
JANUARY 3, 2022
As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.
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145 A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 14 Edition)
Doug Levin
APRIL 9, 2017
On twitter, I also ponder the trend of tech-savvy teachers increasingly resembling NASCAR drivers, proudly wearing digital uniforms on social media full of sponsored messages as proof of expertise: Why do some in K-12 define #edtech expertise by # of tech company certifications acquired? What does it mean to be an XYZ-certifed educator?
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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022
eSchool News
DECEMBER 23, 2022
As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.
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Edtech trends are enabling more diverse learning
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Edtech is the combination of IT tools and educational practices aimed at facilitating scalable individualized learning. Students learn at different rates, and from diverse ways. These tools deliver personalized learning and training that can automatically adjust to an individual’s learning competence.
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