Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2024

Funds For Learning , the leading E-rate compliance services firm for schools nationwide, launched its 14th annual E-rate survey last month. The survey enables applicants to provide confidential feedback about essential aspects of the federal E-rate program, which can help shape its future direction.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2024

Through the pilot, the FCC aims to learn how to improve school and library defenses against sophisticated ransomware and cyberattacks that put students at risk and impede their learning. This is a landmark moment for schools and libraries across the nation.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The companies also tout their technology as sophisticated enough to tailor access to different user groups and to pick up the context of the content , pinpointing when something is not appropriate. . The law also requires instructing children about safe online practices, or digital citizenship. .

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 31, 2018

The Vision: A high-speed broadband network for pueblo schools and libraries. Kimball and Alana McGrattan, tribal liaison at the New Mexico State Library, set to work organizing a tribal consortium of four tribal libraries in rural New Mexico. The Funding: E-rate opportunities for K-12 schools. Of the total $4.2

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

13] Usually, these projects are completed by individual students rather than by a group or class. It could involve digital media as well as offline resources like classroom makerspaces or library books. This means that students can work at a rate that is most comfortable for them, which is useful for all learners.[11].

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

E-rate is complicated. But complying with the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) -- a requirement of E-rate -- doesn't have to be. It also provides an overview of E-rate, with answers to commonly asked questions about eligibility, services supported, and audits. What is E-rate?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Why lug around half a dozen heavy books in a backpack that too often is left behind on a sports field or at the library? But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. Not so with digital.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

During a recent edWebinar , edtech experts provided an overview of the E-Rate program, state matching funds, and ways to obtain grants for technological development. Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE.

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ViewSonic Education

JULY 30, 2023

It is easy to connect single content to all displays for effective multi-group environments. With options for remote and group sharing, you don’t have to worry about making sure everyone gets the correct information on time. 709 color accuracy, and an ultra-fast 3,840Hz refresh rate, the images produced are lifelike and just stunning.

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Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 6, 2015

What Good is E-Rate Modernization if Schools Can’t Pay for What’s Connected to Broadband? The dust is starting to settle from the recent changes to the federal E-Rate program. Schools are actively pursuing increases to bandwidth by filing their Form 471s before next week.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

per semester for what it calls Cengage Unlimited, its full e-library, and another $50 for access to a related homework system that professors often assign with the textbook. Textbook prices are on her mind quite a bit as the chair of her school’s chapter of North Carolina Public Interest Research Group.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A smaller but still significant group has begun tutoring their Chinese students privately, in clandestine arrangements, setting their own schedules and pay rates, though many find this option to be too risky for the families and won’t consider it. The e-card templates VIPKid created for teachers to tell their Chinese students goodbye.

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GoConqr

MARCH 10, 2017

At the end of February we reached another significant milestone at GoConqr – more than 3 million e-learning members have registered in our platform , actively participating in the creation of a social learning platform. We list the most important contributions e-learning members make every day and how everyone can benefit from them: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This likely explains why a quarter of Black teens reported not being able to do their homework due to a lack of reliable internet access — nearly twice the rate of white teens. A quarter of Black teens reported not being able to do their homework for lack of reliable internet access — nearly twice the rate of white teens.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2022

To be precise, the content that shall be filtered or blocked is divided into 3 groups: obscenity, child pornography & content harmful to minors. Needless to say, K-12 schools must be CIPA compliant to use E-Rate discounts, but those schools and libraries that do not receive the fundings do not have this obligation.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Almost all of these tools provide extra features beside online search including, for instance, the ability to create personal libraries where you can save and organize your books, automated citations generation , social networking with other researchers, collaboration, and many more. Only you can see the articles in your library.

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Hapara

JANUARY 6, 2023

You can ask learners to write in a journal, complete a feeling sentence stem, fill out a graphic organizer or rate how they’re feeling at that moment. Partner and group work is crucial for helping students build social awareness, develop positive relationships and make responsible decisions. Get my free e-book.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2023

A closet in the hallway has been transformed into a makeshift library. For young people receiving in-patient psychiatric care, hospital school programs like the one at UNC not only keep them on track academically, but can also be helpful to their recovery, said Marisa E. Kids don’t get better right away, but kids can get better.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2023

To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@learningrevolution.com. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

On the flip side, research by the Annie E. I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world. Third-grade reading proficiency rates improved across most Universal schools from 10 to 20 percentage points during the five years of the initiative.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2022

McKerley sees the current ESSER and E-Rate funding as “once-in-a-generation” opportunities to address these goals. We work with our customers to engineer high-capacity and future-ready connectivity, communication, cloud, security, and data analytics solutions to education institutions and libraries across the nation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

They have a wonderful lesson library that they've created as well. So we always have to be careful of that because there might not be as much information, inputed from certain groups of people, ethnicities, cultures and things like that. And so I'm looking at this and then you were talking about this on our select group.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 13, 2017

She belongs to The Educators Collaborative — a group of educators that organize online and share innovative lesson plans that incorporate the internet. have access to high-speed internet and more than 118,000 school and libraries use the E-rate program. ” says Jim Neal, President of the American Library Association.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2023

To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@learningrevolution.com. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The organization lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to allow districts to get or improve their Wi-Fi with money from a program called E-rate. E-rate is funded by collecting fees that telecommunications companies pass on to customers, and it supports massive discounts on goods and services for schools and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 5, 2023

Coaching Skills for Library Leaders: Confident Conversations for Staff Development, Improvement, and Change [2023 UPDATED VERSION] Part of the Library 2.0 If you’re reluctant to speak with your library staff about work performance or work behavior issues, now is the time to get better at these “conversations that mean something.”

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 15, 2012

She suggested that Libraries should conserve their traditional roles and that any change that took place should be 'geological'. Goring was essentially arguing that libraries should not be dictated to by technological changes, but in doing so she missed a fundamental point. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Through both documentaries and fictional accounts, you can highlight the experiences and perspectives of people from under-represented groups. Keep in mind that these recommendations are aimed at parents and families -- not teachers -- but the age rating and content grid in each review can serve as a useful guide. Grades: 6-12.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It also brought influential education leaders together at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., In 2008, the high school graduation rate at Winterboro High School was 63 percent. ” Lacey also credited the E-Rate program for helping connect the district to high speed internet. So it should be with E-Rate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Cayanne Korder, 18, studies in the Red Wing High library before heading to a local hospital for an internship. That’s despite the fact that the overall rural high school graduation rate in the 2015-16 school year was 87.3 percent more likely to go on to top schools than the first-generation students in the control group. “It

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

"Becoming a Resilient Librarian: Taking the Path Away From Stress and Burnout" Part of a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0 and hosted by ALA author and library service, safety, and security expert, Dr. Steve Albrecht. TO REGISTER: Click HERE.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 29, 2023

To arrange group discounts (see below), to submit a purchase order, or for any registration difficulties or questions, email admin@learningrevolution.com. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully. Ann serves on the edWeb.net Advisory Board , ClassLink’s Senior Advisors Group, and is a founding member of ERDI’s Alliance for Education Impact Advisory Council.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

"Becoming a Resilient Librarian: Taking the Path Away From Stress and Burnout" Part of a special Library 2.0 series with Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : A 60-minute training webinar presented by Library 2.0 and hosted by ALA author and library service, safety, and security expert, Dr. Steve Albrecht. TO REGISTER: Click HERE.

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