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MAY 24, 2024

Part of digital equity in schools is access to high-speed internet and reliable technology devices, but another component includes giving all students the opportunity to use those devices and that access to build digital literacy. How access to technology can create equity in schools The latest iteration of the U.S.

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JULY 19, 2021

“What we knew from our work since 2018 is that we've been losing school librarians at a pretty alarming rate for a decade,” says Keith Curry Lance, a library statistics and research associate with the RSL Research Group, and co-author of the study. As of 2018-2019, about three in ten school districts lacked even a single librarian. “The

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

The study, done by education professors at Bridgeport State University, posed five open-ended questions: What has been your experience? One of the biggest was access to technology, including adequate Wi-Fi. We make an assumption that everybody has access to Wi-Fi and everyone has access to internet and that is not true at all.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Edtech is the combination of IT tools and educational practices aimed at facilitating scalable individualized learning. It comprises the whole world of computer-aided education and training, along with the use of digital tools and resources. There are numerous advantages to educational technology.

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DECEMBER 30, 2017

Surprises from 2017 As 2017 dawned, I held hope that more instructional technology solution providers would take up the mantle and publish third-party efficacy studies. Yet it was sobering to find only two elementary math software programs with randomized, controlled trial studies from the past six years.

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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. And some students feel like they’ve largely been left to navigate the internet’s murky waters alone, without adequate guidance from teachers and professors. It was commissioned by the John S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Although schools in rural areas traditionally hit roadblocks when it comes to securing technology tools and high-speed internet access in classrooms and student homes, a new study suggests students in those schools actually outperform their urban and suburban peers in access at school.

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OCTOBER 15, 2019

The reason for Paul’s involvement: these new internet-connected boilers would allow staff control from anywhere in the building and even out of the district. The affordability of network-connections for everyday objects was explained in a 2015 Deloitte study. In education, the internet of things is big business.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

This is the latest product from NetSupport, which has been supporting teachers with award-winning instructional and educational technology for over 30 years. classroom.cloud provides unique flexibility, allowing teachers to monitor the applications and internet use on each student’s computer no matter where they are connected.

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MAY 1, 2018

According to the authors of a study on the privacy protections in children’s apps, perhaps not much. At the time the study was conducted, the researchers found that ClassDojo was sending location data to Amplitude, an analytics provider, whose privacy policy, they write, prevents it from being used in child-directed apps.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Intelligent AI tutoring programs accomplish this feat by using machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in how students interact with the software during study sessions. While AI tutoring offers a new way for students to approach learning, educators, parents, and students must use it cautiously.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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MARCH 5, 2020

The company is part of what has become a big business in providing study help to college students for a fee. To encourage students to share their notes or other study aids, Course Hero gives out free credits for uploading, which means that students can avoid the subscription cost if they send in enough materials.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. Making Time for Research The promise of media and technology to transform student learning has led schools in the U.S.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Previously we would take months to study and pilot it and do some testing. Filling the Gaps In October, Alice Owens, executive director of the Texas K12 CTO Council, hosted a virtual meeting with about 220 school technology leaders in the Lone Star State. We found that a number of families said, ‘Yes, we have access to the internet.’

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The report is the work of the COVID Collaborative, a coalition of education, health and economic experts, written by the former directors of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Secretaries of Education, from both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. Up to 60 percent of disconnected students cannot pay for internet access or devices. When schools closed last March, roughly 16 million U.S. Money is an issue. This especially impacts students who are English language learners.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. Districts are more frequently asking for their own student and teacher product usage data to perform their own studies. Then, look at a correlational study, run a comparison study, and run a randomized experiment. K-12 Schools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2017

The recently released report, STEM Starts Early: Grounding Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in Early Childhood by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and New America is a summary of current research and makes critical recommendations for both STEM communication to parents and future research in early childhood STEM.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Study and Share: As more Americans are told to stay home, the FCC should study how broadband networks are faring under the stress of more intensive use and publish these findings daily. The changes in broadband consumption may reveal weak points in the complex ecosystem of companies, services and products that make up the Internet.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. At the heart of the study were inquiries about “edtech self-efficacy,” defined in the report as confidence in one’s ability to learn new technology.

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APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. But educators who want to make sure they reach every student don’t have to resort to mailing printed worksheets. But cell service is pretty reliable in most places.

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JULY 5, 2022

For others, maybe a mention in class of the horrors of medical care during the Civil War sends them down a rabbit hole of internet research to learn more about what soldiers of the period went through. And these are not just super-precocious kids digging into self-directed study—what Evans calls “free agent learning.”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. It’s a message I’ve been arguing for a while.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta yesterday, as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s sweeping vision of creating a next-generation “embodied” internet inspired by science fiction, where users, as he described it , will be “in the experience, not just looking at it.” And he is targeting education as one key part of that vision.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

This study provided a much more comprehensive picture of where we are.”. Many Alaskan schools rely on satellite internet access, he said, but “any time you’re bouncing internet traffic off of a satellite, it’s slow. This latency makes video conferencing very difficult.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Lessons From Last Year When schools closed last March, the College Board briefly considered scrapping the AP exams altogether, says Packer, given the logistical challenges posed by school closures and disparities in home internet access for students. They said, ‘Please don’t take that away,’” Packer recalls.

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MARCH 13, 2019

And now, it’s attracted TCV to an education technology company. TCV is no stranger to the education technology industry, having chipped in on two $50 million-plus investment deals for Varsity Tutors, an online tutoring startup. Its other edtech investments include Capella Education and Watermark.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy. Those broader social, cultural and political frameworks,” she says, “that’s one area where you don’t get just naturally from participating on the internet.”.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. People were just applying approaches to information on the internet that weren't really appropriate to the internet, that people were applying some of these pre-internet approaches that weren't really applicable.”

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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. On the home front, three organizations have released a “guidebook” to help schools and states close the internet access and device gap.

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OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically. How, then, can we support students in building these skills and ways of thinking?

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AUGUST 8, 2022

But researchers who study the relationship say that the field is still in its infancy, and new methodologies and funding sources are needed to understand it and push us toward a healthier environment for kids online. “The One meta-analysis of 12 different studies found depression correlated with time spent on social media, although weakly.

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JULY 2, 2019

Such features in other internet-connected devices that can record children have proven controversial in the past. The company has also participated in several education technology accelerator programs, including xEdu in Finland and Edstart by Amazon Web Services. The app also provides progress data on children’s learning.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A top Google leader said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference this summer that nearly 40 percent of young people—ages 18 to 24—are turning to visual-based social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for their internet searches. The educators we asked responded with a resounding—nope.

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