eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Key points: Without continued funding, schools and libraries may struggle to maintain or upgrade technological infrastructure See article: 3 ways the E-rate program helps level up learning See article: Will cybersecurity receive E-rate funding?

Digital Divide 118

Digital Divide E-rate Libraries Advocacy 118

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

District technology leaders, she adds, couldn’t fathom that internet service providers would come out and deliver fiber to their schools, much less at affordable rates. He’d spent his career building and selling companies in various industries, including finance, telecommunications, software and consumer retail.

Broadband 143

Broadband E-rate Advocacy Industry 143

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. Read more: Distance learning during the pandemic: Improvise.

Social Media 195

Social Media Gamification Learning E-rate 195

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2016

Big E-rate changes mean schools must chart a new path. A bigger annual cap isn’t the only recent change to the E-rate program. We asked E-rate guru John Harrington, CEO of Funds for Learning, for his application-time thoughts and advice. There’s literally a 99 page manual to just use the software.

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E-rate Data System Accessibility 40

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

In 2020, the New Hampshire State Commission on 5G released a Final Report recommending that cell towers be distanced from schools and that Wi-Fi be replaced with safer technology in schools and libraries. Teacher unions have passed resolutions and numerous resources are available to educate students on safer ways to use modern technology.

Classroom 144

Classroom Tablets E-rate Laptops 144

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

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

After leaving CPS, he began building a suite of web-based software applications to help manage the responsibilities of being an administrator. “I PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. That opened the door for software as a service and web-based applications.”.

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E-rate Software Report Company 100

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.

Broadband 97

Broadband E-rate Education Future Ready 97

Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? If you draw a comparison between the two, i.e., traditional textbooks and interactive textbooks, you will see that e-textbooks clearly fare better than regular textbooks. Here’s our list of the 8 best eBook creation software. Create a Digital Library.

eBook 64

eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

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.’” . Screencast-O-Matic comes in the form of software that you can download and works across Chromebooks, Mac, Windows, Android and iOS.

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OER Resources How To Education 130

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere. Promethean also highlighted Symphony Classroom with Merlyn , a complete education technology solution from Merlyn Mind that includes an AI hub, software platform, and remote control.

EdTech 138

EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 138

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 29, 2024

SDK stands for Software Development Kit. Conclusion Understanding an ePUB Reader SDK ePUB Reader SDK stands for “Electronic Publication Reader Software Development Kit,” and it is basically a set of software tools. With just a little library, you can get a fully functional reader by plugging it into an application.

eBook 52

eBook E-rate Android Software 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional textbooks are being replaced by interactive e-books and online resources, giving students dynamic and multimedia-rich content that can be updated as the world changes. Adaptive learning platforms and educational apps cater to individual learning styles and paces, enabling students to progress at their own rate.

Technology 95

Technology Education Adaptive Learning Accessibility 95

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls.

Broadband 106

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 106

Educator Innovator

MARCH 30, 2016

An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is teaching youth how to learn by immersing them in digital arts. Libraries have changed since my childhood in the 1980s. Yet there’s something to be said for the convenience inherent in e-readers. this is a library?

Libraries 44

Libraries Laptops E-rate Software 44

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles. Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers.

Broadband 46

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 46

NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

I was proud to be there to share along with some serious library power: AASL President Leslie Preddy, Mark Ray (WA) Washington, Jennifer Boudrye (D.C.) Among the featured platforms and developments: Microsoft is planning an app to help teachers and students find rated OER from within any learning management system.

OER 40

OER Edmodo E-rate Libraries 40

Brainscape

JUNE 9, 2022

For example: online courses and e-textbook providers that are more of an instructional curriculum, but that have built spaced repetition into things like multiple-choice quizzes at the end of chapters, where incorrect answers are more likely to come up frequently until the user answers correctly.

E-rate 52

E-rate Study Chegg Software 52

techlearning

AUGUST 27, 2018

The company develops, sells, and services its integrated, interactive solution suite including software, classroom technologies, and professional development and support services. The company aims to improve learning and engagement in classrooms and to help educators enhance student outcomes, by developing the products they need.

System 40

System Classroom E-rate Company 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 30, 2016

An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is teaching youth how to learn by immersing them in digital arts. Libraries have changed since my childhood in the 1980s. Yet there’s something to be said for the convenience inherent in e-readers. this is a library?

Libraries 36

Libraries Laptops E-rate Software 36

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Equity has become a pretty important word in the K-12 sector over the last few years as schools and districts integrate more technology applications, devices, and software into the learning environment. . “Giving students devices isn’t a good move if they can’t use them when they’re not at school” In search of equity.

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Accessibility Flipped Classroom 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles. Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers.

Broadband 36

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 36

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). Ratings and reviews a based on standards-aligned, multifaceted rubric used by a team of expert reviewers and a select group of educators who field-test products for their value with learners. Follow them @BalefireLabs.

iPad 40

iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. “We The school has had large class sizes, even in the lower grades, for years because of stagnant funding, he said.

Elementary 73

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 73

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to.

Trends 144

Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Technology and software programs that save time by doing most of the work for you. Grateful for hormones that control your heart rate, reproduction, and sleep cycles. Prioritiz e. The delight of bright colors, pastels, shades, and tones as opposed to a world that is only black and white. A Rainy Day. Technology. Arms And Legs.

Exercises 112

Exercises Social Media Meeting E-rate 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 15, 2021

And LEAs cannot reduce funding or staffing per student in schools with high rates of students living in poverty by more than district-wide funding or staffing reductions. E-Rate and Connectivity. The bill specifically cites the need for evidence-based interventions that respond to student academic, social, and emotional needs.

E-rate 79

E-rate Libraries Secondary Software 79

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

Knewton 43

Knewton Pearson Education E-rate 43

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / The Samsung devices are wrapped in thick cases and loaded with education software selected to serve residents’ needs. Joel Castón uses a tablet in the library of the D.C.

Tablets 166

Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 166

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

It's a full-time online charter school with the idea that students would be spending about 90% of their time online via software. And your latest story, Benjamin, focuses on the Federal Communications Commission, and you talk about E-Rate. But it has over 4,000 students. It's the largest school in Colorado.

Report 127

Report E-rate Technology Education 127

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

E-rate 50

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 50

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” Post, Sources Say.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

Education 46

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Wheeler supported e-Rate reform and “ net neutrality.” ” Meanwhile, “ Germany -wide consortium of research libraries announce boycott of Elsevier journals over open access,” according to BoingBoing. ” Via Slate : “ Wrongful Arrest by Software.” Not so much.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” Also by Michael Feldstein : “Why Ed-Tech Software Patents Could Harm Innovation.” ” More on the topic on his website , e-Literate.

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

” “Schools, Libraries Miss Out on Millions in E-Rate Funds,” according to EdTech Magazine – some $245 million for the 2014 fiscal year. “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “With two executive orders, Gov.

Coursera 61

Coursera Education E-rate Company 61

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44