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AUGUST 21, 2019

If you missed this article over at ReadiLearn , here are my thoughts about teaching technology in kindergarten: Why Kindergartners Must Learn Technology. When I started teaching technology almost twenty years ago, I taught K-8, three classes in each grade every week. Kindergartners learn technology fast.

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APRIL 16, 2024

AI technology can bridge this gap. Moreover, an increasing number of cloud-based AI solutions offer scalable and cost-effective ways to bring advanced educational tools to schools everywhere, gradually leveling the playing field.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 11, 2019

The Do's and Don'ts of Project-Based Learning Technology Integration. Educators embracing project-based learning to engage students. At McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn., It’s just good teaching and learning,” Thomas Chappelle, principal of McKissack Middle School, told EdTech.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

15, 2021— ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home communications platform for K-12 education, has been named a vendor partner by the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP). School staff and parents can also participate in one-to-one and group messaging with real-time language translation.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School. The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

The latest statistics come from Connected Nation’s (CN) Connect K-12 Program’s 2023 Report on School Connectivity , released in collaboration with Funds For Learning (FFL). In fact, the cost is substantially higher for those school districts not meeting that level of connectivity. “In Key points: U.S. per megabit.

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JUNE 3, 2022

OTCQB:GAXY) (“Galaxy” or the “Company”), a provider of interactive learning technology solutions, has offered a complimentary one-year (school year) subscription for its G2 Visual Alerts security solution to every school and school district in the U.S. About Galaxy Next Generation, Inc.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Every year, schools and libraries have access to billions of dollars of funding through the FCC’s E-rate program. In this post I’ll break down the importance of E-rate, how it works, and the types of technologies it makes available that are crucial to education. There is a growing dependence on these resources across the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Ellis Crasnow, the director of a newly-opened high school in Los Angeles devoted to STEM-related schools to students with learning difficulties, such as autism. nonprofit with a smattering of schools around the city, most catering to students with learning disabilities. STEM3 is classified as a non-public school.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2023

Schools and Caldwell County (N.C.) Schools have long used technology to improve classroom instruction. Teachers at Bay District (Fla.) However, they recently started to incorporate more flexibility into their teaching tools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2017

How do you weave creativity into the fabric of school curriculum? School leaders are tasked with this expectation in order to prepare our students for the demands of 21 st century workforce skills. Our philosophy allows creativity to be the basis for teaching, learning and problem-solving. Take a School-by-School Approach.

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JUNE 19, 2023

TORONTO /PRNewswire/ – D2L, a global learning technology company, announced today that Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, the 10 th largest school district in Georgia, has selected D2L Brightspace to support student learning and teacher professional development.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Cyberattacks on public schools are becoming more common and more severe every year. Most recently, an attack on the LA Unified School District in September 2022 conducted by the Russian hacking group Vice Society shut down access to emails, computer systems, and applications for more than half a million users.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Chicago — Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles Unified) has chosen ClassVR from Avantis Education, a global leader in educational virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technology, to introduce groundbreaking immersive learning experiences to students. To learn more visit [link] and www.classvr.com.

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MAY 9, 2022

By following this roadmap, states can lay the groundwork to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to take them to a bright future. Founded in 1994, CASEL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that first introduced the term social and emotional learning (SEL).

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

This fall, some school buildings may be open again, but things won’t be back to normal. In all likelihood, students will have to come to campuses part-time in shifts, which creates a whole host of challenges for schools as they strive to offer comprehensive educational opportunities.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

CoSN is partnering with school districts in Illinois via the states Learning Technology Center to strengthen K12 data privacy practices. Through the partnership, leaders at CoSN and the Learning Technology Center hope to expand schools adoption of the Trusted Learning Environment framework.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2025

Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is partnering with the University of Florida (UF) and the Concord Consortium to introduce a groundbreaking year-long Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Math supplemental certification for FLVS middle and high school students enrolled in the schools Flex option. To learn more, visit our website.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. Verizon has committed over $3 billion to help schools pay for technology, hoping “to leave no student behind.” Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, gave $10 million to a single school district in California, aimed at closing digital disparities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Many districts across the United States are starting the 2020–21 school year using hybrid or fully remote learning, so students’ online safety remains a top priority. Gaggle’s machine learning technology watches for specific words and phrases that might indicate potentially harmful behavior.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a recent discussion with global education leaders , we took a hard look at some of the inequitable practices that continue to plague our schools. Below are nine key themes that emerged from our panel, along with a few action items to help education leaders enable equitable education in their schools or districts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One answer lies in better communication between parents, students and schools through data interoperability. Schools are awash in valuable data about students, creating the potential for educators to access a profile of the “whole child.” How do we overcome this gap?

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

The pandemic has taken a toll on students’ mental health as they adjusted to the sweeping changes in their schools and communities. The move by many schools to distance or hybrid learning contributed to mental health issues like isolation, anxiety and depression. Take time to foster relationships with students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our work, along with findings from the Robin Hood Learning + Technology Fund ’s collaboration with innovative New York City schools indicate that integrating computational thinking into core curriculum, could provide one path. For the past two and a half years, we’ve been exploring this question at Michigan State University.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 17, 2021

When the Cajon Valley Union School District had to close K–12 classrooms in response to the coronavirus pandemic, we grappled with the same challenges faced by schools around the nation: How could we provide educational continuity and support students’ progress with distance learning? Technology played a crucial role, of course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Students would laugh as the teachers mumbled about the annoyances of technology. Now think about how far the classroom has come since then–schools stocked with iPads and tablets, interactive touchscreens, and even virtual reality headsets. Undoubtedly, the pandemic accelerated the shift to technology adoption in schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The challenges facing K-12 leaders as they start the new school year are enormous. These skills underpin all other skills that students learn in school; if children can’t read well, then their entire education is at risk. Making up this lost ground while continuing to ensure that students learn grade-level skills is hard enough.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. In K–12, assistive learning can be a tricky beast to tackle. Attention deficit disorder is a rising issue among K–12 schools. Immersive Learning Technology Helps Students Practice Soft Skills. eli.zimmerman_9856. At the 53rd St.

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AUGUST 27, 2021

Teacher optimism has fallen to pre-pandemic levels, according to new research out today from learning technology company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). Educational technology: From promise to proof.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

As students left our boarding school in Shenzhen on January 17 for the long-awaited Chinese New Year vacation, none of them expected that an epidemic brewing in Wuhan would spread rapidly across the nation, preventing them from seeing their teachers and friends at school for the foreseeable future. How did this happen? Be optimistic.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

Coming out of beta today (March 4 th ), an online content creation platform called Versal is quickly gaining traction with educators in 59 countries interested in creating online lessons to support dynamic teaching methods, such as flipped learning, blended learning, MOOC creation, and fully online learning. “My

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

BOSTON, /PRNewswire/ – As students and teachers nationwide head back to school, learning technology company HMH today announced major enhancements to Ed , HMH’s connected teaching and learning platform, that will offer an even more streamlined experience to empower educators and engage students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2021

Classes became virtual, as did most everything else, and administrators, teachers, and students alike received a crash course on the finer points of digital learning technology. More than 10,000 schools in 170 countries and across all 50 U.S. states have implemented Mote’s technology.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2023

School districts have sprawling networks where availability often takes precedence over security, but are constrained in managing those networks by limited resources and overstretched IT teams. It also discovered that the damage from those attacks is growing. Slow recovery time that often took between two and nine months.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

What do Dave Chapelle shows and a growing number of schools have in common? Some of them have no idea how many times they check their phones,” says Yvonne Shiu, the principal of San Mateo High School in California. This month, San Mateo High School became the largest public school to deploy them for all 1,700 of its students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Here, eSchool News highlights the San Diego Unified School District –one of three K-12 Hero Awards winners. Keep reading this interview with Julie Garcia, the district’s Director of Instructional Technology, to discover how the district prioritized meaningful teacher PD and student engagement. See below for the full interview.

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