eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Kami demonstrated its all-in-one digital learning platform.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation. So maybe you thought internet connectivity to schools was a done deal. But when kids and their devices return to classrooms, school bandwidth will again be in the spotlight. All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources. In 2014, it was acquired for $1.1

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2019

K–12 students have more access to the internet than ever, thanks to the multitude of personal devices at their fingertips. . With 95 percent of teenagers in possession of mobile devices, students are constantly sharing and searching through social media platforms. . Sun, 04/14/2019 - 10:28. by Jennifer Brown.

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MAY 28, 2020

As one player uses the Oculus Quest (playing as a tree), the other players (squirrels) work together on mobile devices. For the best experience, play the game with decent internet speed to stay on the same server; otherwise, you will need to start the game over when it becomes disconnected. Supernatural (VR; subscription).

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JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. As part of the change, the Washington, D.C.-based

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DECEMBER 29, 2018

And AI-powered education platforms can help to improve student engagement with global culture and history. In 2018, NYC Media Lab worked alongside researchers, technologists, entrepreneurs and executives who are building educational technologies in these areas and more.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2016

The unique internet search site your students don’t know about. The Wayback Machine is a reference tool for the internet Age as basic as a dictionary. New forms, new data, the potential for infrastructure discounts, and (even more) new funding are all colliding to create one of the most challenging application periods in memory.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Eavesdropping / Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) Attacks What they are: It’s likely that you sometimes use a school laptop or mobile device to gain internet access via Wi-Fi networks in public places like coffee shops or airports. So, what are the most common cybersecurity threats, and how can school staff avoid them?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

These other options that we’re adding as an add-on are additional for very complex and unique needs,” says Jonathan Rochelle, director of product management at Google for Education, in an interview with EdSurge. They can also change settings on network devices, and curate apps.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile learning management apps enable students to do their schoolwork and attend class whenever and wherever they have an internet connection. This means removing distractions like mobile devices and unrelated browser windows and soliciting the help of friends and family to honor their space.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

RT3D technology has long been the backbone of video game development, allowing creators to build anything they can imagine in ways that respond to player input. Once content is created, it can be deployed to mobile devices, computers, consoles, AR/VR headsets and a host of other platforms to reach its audience.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Chando explained that Microsoft Teams’ efforts to support asynchronous learning were also driven by a desire to “make sure that we have equity in access” between students with reliable internet and those without. In many ways, the process for making such changes to products resembles what companies had done in the past.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

He put it this way: “Could you have an equal chance to apply for college if you’re at McDonald’s on your mobile device, versus if you’re at home on your desktop?” To Krueger, it’s a matter of equity.

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APRIL 10, 2020

One commenter highlighted CUNY’s hub of information about continuity of learning , complete with a video from the chancellor, details on accessing laptops and mental health services, and optimization for mobile devices. They especially celebrated when resources were organized without campus constituents having to first apply pressure.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

It’s a beneficiary of changes in federal technology policy that will increase the number of channels that televisions can receive, enable mobile devices to pick up broadcast video and make TV more interactive through internet connections.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Teachers: Model appropriate etiquette with edtech for students When I work with teachers, one obstacle they say is in the way of them letting students use mobile devices every day in their classrooms is the distraction factor. Empower your students/children.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Pear Deck works on most web browsers on desktop and mobile devices. Sorry, Internet Explorer.) The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The opportunity for innovation across education at all levels—from pre-K through adult learning—has never been greater. Today’s technology allows us to do things we could only dream of in 2010. Mobile internet access in homes has mushroomed from 9 percent in 2010 to 92 percent in 2017. So, who will prevail on October 7?

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. Across Africa, feature phones make up 56 percent of the overall mobile phone market, according to technology research firm IDC.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

QR codes are placed on the sensors, so students can scan each sensor with a mobile device or tablet and see an augmented reality dashboard with the most recent data. Last spring, I asked an adjunct faculty to do a workshop on Internet of Things. It was one of the most popular ones of the semester, the room was packed.”

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JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of households don’t have internet subscriptions, according to the 2016 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S.

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APRIL 23, 2019

That was early in the days of low-cost cloud computing enabling a multitude of new edtech startups, really fast internet beginning its spread to schools, and Chromebooks starting their climb to ascendance in U.S. K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device. For more education technology events, check out our 2019 calendars: U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

At least I can say my high school has Wi-Fi and does not restrain the use of mobile devices after class. There we encountered even harsher restrictions on technology. The school’s Wi-Fi is exclusive to teachers, and any use of mobile devices is banned.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2018

More so, today’s education prioritizes mobile devices which don’t have the ability to read these mediums. Which Tech Is Set to Emerge in Education. As mentioned above, mobile devices are going to become essential inside the classrooms. He is interested in educational, technological, and political issues.

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JUNE 4, 2018

He’s been involved with cutting-edge educational technology, including virtual worlds, mobile applications, new media, and the web, for more than 15 years. Michigan Virtual has been in the online education space for two decades. We offer over 300 professional learning courses that you can take anywhere, anytime.

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JULY 18, 2017

This included improving the wireless internet, ensuring access to mobile devices and a high standard of tech and training support. Wolf Creek had already been using Hapara products for some time, and when Workspace was introduced, it seemed like the perfect fit.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Dictation, a voice recognition feature that was once limited to powerful desktop workstations, has recently been integrated into the operating systems of most mobile devices. For poor connections, you can install Enhanced Dictation on a Mac laptop or desktop, which allows you to dictate without an internet connection.

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

Another prevalent issue preventing technology change in schools is fear—fear of change, of the unknown, of letting go of what we know best, of being learners again. The fear drives some schools to ban cellphones, disallow students and faculty from using Facebook, and lock down Internet filters so tightly that useful websites are inaccessible.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

It would be helpful for parents to recognize that devices and apps have been designed for children to become addicted to them, and protect them from that at a young age, she says. For those who prefer not to wait, here are some other ways parents and educators can monitor and manage children’s screen time on mobile devices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? Especially if those students are teens, within sight of leaving K-12 and moving into higher education.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

We identified a broad device ecosystem of laptops, tablets, smartphones fitness trackers, smartwatches, computer-enabled shoes, game players and e-readers, then examined how moving content between those devices was enabled (open standards, the web) or discourages (hardware-specific formats, siloes).

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

This is the next revolution in education,” Johnson says. This frees up class time for discussions and collaborative activities, educators say. To ensure fast internet speeds, IT staff ­blanketed the school with about 100 HPE Aruba 802.11ac wireless access points , including one AP per classroom, Harris says.

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