eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Notably, the K-12 segment is the largest consumer of Android-based mobile learning apps. To make matters worse, the growing connected device networks and remote learning opportunities further exacerbate these vulnerabilities. Of course, digital learning also depends heavily on internet access. With over 3.3

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

One significant development is collaborative e-learning, which integrates social interactions among peers and teachers. From podcasts, YouTube captions, personalized learning dashboards, and social annotation, teachers now have a variety of e-learning methods at their disposal. What types of e-learning are there?

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Unsurprisingly, we increasingly learn from digital video. The realm of informal learning is well represented on YouTube—from DIY instruction to guerrilla recordings of public speakers. More colleges are using it for online learning, since it can make students and instructors more present to each other than most other media.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on collaborative learning originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. And those benefits are even greater when educators and students learn together, especially as we navigate new tech enablers like AI apps and tools.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Before COVID-19, home internet access for all students was a goal—one that some districts even thought they had achieved. But the pandemic and forced distance learning have exposed a plethora of inequities in schools that many district leaders now see as issues they must address.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

As schools closed their doors, remote learning became the primary mode of instruction, accelerating edtech’s role in classrooms. Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. They can pause, rewind, or rewatch a video.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. New legislation introduced in Congress would support “innovative strategies and methods to increase out-of-school access to digital learning resources” in an effort to boost both student and educator engagement.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

How technology helps in teaching and learning Technology revolutionizes K-12 teaching and learning, offering myriad benefits. Learning management systems streamline administrative tasks, allowing educators to organize, distribute, and assess coursework efficiently. What is an example of technology as a learning tool?

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. For instance, on a recent assignment, some of the homework that came in didn’t sound like typical student work he was used to.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2020

Vizzle is an online learning solution that keeps students with special needs on track with teachers and parents able to support and monitor IEPs, so learning can take place in the classroom and at home. Assign lessons or view data using an Internet-connected tablet or computer. Vizzle FREE through August 1, 2020.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2019

Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. Today, using tech for teaching and learning–both in class and for homework–is a lot more common than it was. However, I knew that things were a lot different once students left my classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s no secret that 21st century teachers and school administrators are under enormous pressure to differentiate instruction to enhance learning for all students, regardless of ability or their innate interest in the material. Enter classroom learning centers. Technology: The Key Ingredient in Successful Learning Centers.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2022

It shouldn’t rely on home internet access, a community hotspot or a ride to the library. Districts that had yet to assign devices to each student rushed to make that happen when remote learning began. In some districts, that might mean building internet service contracts into every device. Rather, U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Across the nation, school districts are investing in one-to-one computing programs and supplying digital devices for their students to use as learning tools. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school. At school, students have access to high-speed internet service.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although some gains in high school students’ technological device and internet access have occurred since ACT first investigated the digital divide in 2018, device and internet access of students with lower family incomes is lagging that of students with higher family incomes,” said Jeff Schiel, Ph.D,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

When funds were earmarked for school wi-fi, we wanted to harness the Internet to provide a world-class education for every student in this district. Our initiative to address digital equity issues began with the rollout of Kajeet SmartSpots for students who needed home Internet access.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

English teachers using StudySync have a wealth of online resources they can use to keep students learning remotely. Teachers using StudySync can use the Access Prior Knowledge Activities in the First Read Lessons to engage students in asynchronous online discussions using Google Classroom or a learning management system, like Schoology.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Key points: AI has tremendous potential in education–here’s how to harness its power 4 lessons learned about AI in 2023 Everything you need to know about AI in education For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning page It seems as if we hear about AI in education every day, if not every hour.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

If the Ancient Mariner were sailing on the internet’s open seas, he might conclude there’s information everywhere, but nary a drop to drink. A dearth of relevant classroom instruction may help explain why students reported relying largely on their peers, or their own judgement, to learn about how algorithms affect information.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

With no guaranteed end in sight, we need Congress to take swift and decisive action to empower the federal E-rate funding program to support off-campus learning devices and connectivity, delivered via secure internet access. To be able to learn online, one must be able to get online. This is not right. We estimate that $5.25

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

The PATHS® program was first introduced over 30 years ago to teach social and emotional learning to students. We believe that students should be explicitly taught social and emotional learning for a minimum of 20-30 minutes 2-3 times per week, using a high-quality and developmentally appropriate curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

The survey, which the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) has administered annually since 2014, this year included questions about video conferencing, home internet access and parent engagement, hoping to shed light on some of the ways that the pandemic has challenged school systems and their technology operations over the last year.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2020

As if that’s not bad enough, the COVID-19 crisis, which forced students across the globe to learn at home while schools closed physical operations, made inequities even more apparent. Students in schools all over the U.S. schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As internet connectivity becomes a necessity for schools and students, there is a new call for the government to make school bus wi-fi eligible for federal E-rate funding. School bus wi-fi also is viewed as a way to close the persistent homework gap that occurs when students have internet access during school, but lack it at home.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

billion Project 10Million (P10M) initiative has delivered reliable and affordable internet service to more than 6 million young learners across the U.S., School-related tasks from digital assignments to research, video streaming, video lessons, and web calls require more data. To learn more and sign up go to www.t-mobile.com/project10million.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Digital learning is reaching a tipping point. Thanks to E-rate, as well as other state and local policy efforts, the education community has largely achieved the original 1997 goal of connecting every classroom to the internet. This is positive news for building the infrastructure for digital learning. Crossroads.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

How those plans have been implemented so far—and the extent to which distance learning is in effect—depends on who you ask, or their socioeconomic status. According to an ongoing weekly Gallup poll , 83 percent of parents of K-12 students say their child is currently partaking in an online distance learning program offered by their schools.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, technology can play a pivotal role in shaping the learning experience. Smarter classrooms leverage cutting-edge technologies to create immersive, personalized learning experiences with unlimited online resources that cater to diverse learning styles.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

I knew if I combined the fragmented collection of videos, slides, documents, and assignments I’ve collected and prepared over the years, I’d be able to create more authentic and engaging lessons for my students. I searched the internet and found a few online tools that fit my challenge.

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Assignments Internet Grades Curriculum 279

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

In 2023, the internet is likely near the top of those concerns. A more popular target The rise in cyberattacks on schools came on the back of the pandemic as remote learning forced many school districts to “expand” the classroom, thereby (unintentionally) expanding the attack surface for bad actors.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generation Z, commonly defined as people born between 1996 and 2010, are known as digital natives because they have grown up using the Internet and other technologies (“What is Gen Z”, 2024). This assignment has four parts: Part I : An overview of the five leadership styles, where students understand, define, and analyze key characteristics.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

But while generative AI tools like ChatGPT have dominated conversations for the past year, there are many classroom tools that have quietly used AI to deliver personalized and targeted learning to students. Students in a classroom learn and consume information differently.

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