Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Namely, many people think access to technology simply boils down to whether students have a working device and a reliable internet connection. School districts cannot use more than 15 percent of ESSA funds to support technology, and E-rate discounts on internet purchases can vary from 20 to 90 percent and are only used for internet access.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

That posed a real problem in a district where there are multiple languages spoken at home and not everyone has Internet connectivity. It turned into an enormous, annual undertaking.”. The training counts.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Instead, we piled on the absurd assumption that districts were now also responsible for subsidizing computers, internet, and food for hundreds of thousands of households across the country. Public schools cannot rely on martyrdom and self-sacrifice to keep staff and students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. As Director of Growth at Zaya, Parida is learning how developing edtech for low-income India slums is quite different than working with American schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Then came the Internet, along with alternative news sources, social media, podcasts, blogs and the rest. Understand that the early failure of innovation and reform initiatives does not equate to a wholesale validation of traditional models. By 1953, newspapers owned 40 percent of TV stations in the U.S. million to 28.5 billion to $14.3

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2025

The most successful leaders are those who share their work–their successes and their failures–and who lead with empathy, learning from others. Crises that occurred once in a generation are now more likely to be annual.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I realized the potential of using the Internet every day—that there could be fewer limitations on what we could do. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. But the tool of a notebook, the tools of creating a poster board—they weren’t allowing me to reach all of my students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Housing is not always available, let alone stable access to food, a ride to and from school and the other conditions that have to be met for a student to really sink into learning, like internet access and a dedicated space for homework. The absentee rates in San Diego — where, in 2021-2022, 30.4 This can cause depression or defiance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities. This is especially true for students from lower-income families. Roughly 21 million people in the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The Internet has changed everything, but everything is going to change even more. A business’s ability to find and contract with skilled workers will be the difference between the success and failure of that business. That’s our future economy, and the way that our students, sons and daughters will make their living.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Dougherty had spent most of his professional career publishing books about software and the internet. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance. Failure only happens when you quit. So the maker movement started with adults.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Another form of the technology is “early warning” or “early alert” programs, which monitor how students are doing in class, identify nonacademic impediments to student success, and target students in danger of failure for extra counseling or other assistance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes. Too many of us take it for granted that students are going to have access to the internet. [Or And then I get feedback and I try again.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

During the school year, attendance tracking was deemphasized to give students a chance to adjust to remote learning, and so that students without access to devices and internet connections were not marked absent. “We Half continued to grade student work, either through letter grades or a pass/fail system that may include incompletes. “If

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. As school moved online,” Altman notes that in some areas, “as many as a third of students stopped attending class.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The connecting thesis across Dunce Capital’s portfolio is Danner’s belief that the internet has made knowledge abundant, and so “the future of learning will be organized around the student, making learning convenient and equally available” to everyone, he states. That’s the kind of culture Danner hails from.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

“Increasingly, educational technologies are done through outsourced platforms,” says Tracy Mitrano, principal of Mitrano and Associates, a consulting firm, and formerly the director of internet culture policy and law at Cornell University. “It There was some resistance,” Sutherland remembers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In fact, for years he edited one of the most popular humor magazines on the Internet, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency — a more literary version of the The Onion. Learning to write is a process that requires failure, that requires trying things over again. But Warner is not anti-tech. That requires taking a big swing and missing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. 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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When third grade students use the internet to research a topic, do they know how to do that safely and legally? A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. There’s no longer an option to hide students from the online world, what is considered by many parents a dangerous place their children should avoid. Try, fail, try again.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Share in comments what your secret techniques are: 6 Tips for Teaching Kids Coding If you were around when the internet first came out, you may have seen how coding was a career for specialized professionals. Troubleshooting failure is one of the biggest things coders focus on, but kids might find this leads to frustration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

A note: Any time students use the internet, start with a discussion on how to use it safely. Make failure fun. Look into the eyes of a fifth grader who just solved the unsolvable–something most adults s/he knows can’t do. You’ll remember why you’re a teacher. Align goals with learning. In fact, encourage that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. The Kindle and the Nook had already been around, and this idea of personal devices in schools was in the air.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. percent of homes don’t have internet subscriptions.) Census Bureau. (In

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

The Internet is full of ideas for different home labs.) The process gives them the opportunity to try several times and also gives room for failure. The opportunity for failure and the chance to learn from that failure is a fabulous thing for students. That is another great way to learn: by having the freedom to fail.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. OpenAI opened the floodgates of change again when it made a version of ChatGPT free to all, putting it at the fingertips of every student with an internet connection.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? In Bridgeport schools, we implemented a whole disaster recovery system about a month before a major failure. True disaster recovery is having a recovery plan in place in case disaster hits your data center. Do you have a secondary network connection?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Tonight, I want you to go on the internet and download some worksheets on quadratic equations – try for at least 20 of them … on each side of the page, spend some time memorizing the periodic table, and while you’re at it memorize the major dates, battles, and generals associated with the American Civil War. via [link]. I love this so much.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Failure is a valuable part of the process, and your attitude toward failure will shape the attitude of your students. Programming this microcontroller was error-prone and difficult, but the students learned techniques such as making one change at a time and then re-testing, taking notes, and being resourceful with internet searches.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

They are integrating computational thinking and computer science in with microelectronics and the internet of things. Learn from failure. Did I get a quality night's sleep? And these kids are just doing amazing things. Which are most useful? They have to be persistent. Resourcefulness.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This holiday season, we’ve been thinking back to simpler times—long before Cybermonday was a thing or the Internet was in widespread use. This failure to evolve has come at the detriment of education providers and, more importantly, learners—who do not have access to the information or options that other shoppers enjoy.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.” Amelia Vance, a policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum , has similar thoughts. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Glitches in the system/internet mean that students often miss instructional time, are unable to complete their Exit Slip, or are late to their next class,” the parents wrote. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? Unfortunately this has happened quite a few times to many of our children.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

From early attempts at building learning management systems in the 1990s to today’s explosion of infrastructure and software in classrooms, Palmer charts the success and failures of edtech—and why he’s bullish about the future. Here’s What We Know About Google’s Chromebook Internet Outage.

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