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The Battle To Expand Internet In Rural Schools
Funding from programs like the FCC’s E-Rate can be a crucial factor in connecting schools lacking resources, especially in rural areas. As The Hechinger Report also notes, the communities these schools are located in often already face uphill battles with getting things like fiberoptic lines installed to begin with, as an internet service provider won’t…
Cal Poly’s Hospitality Program Receives Significant Endowment
The founder of Collins Foods International, now known as Sizzler International, and his wife donated $10 million to Cal Poly’s Collins College of Hospitality Management in Pomona, the school announced March 20. The school will use the gift, in part, to create the Carol and James. A Collins Excellence Endowment to support undergrad and grad…
Using The Cloud To Boost Efficiency
A whopping 80 percent of school ed tech leaders say their districts are using cloud-based software, according to exclusive data from EdWeek Market Brief. Of that usage, about four of five district leaders are using cloud-based systems from third-party servers, or those offsite and at less risk of data loss. From productivity suites to management…
PlaySight Brings Visual Simulation Training to Sports
PlaySight, a visual simulation training system for sports, founded in Israel, is changing the way people train. And their biggest success so far has been in tennis. Why tennis? The seed for the idea of PlaySight was planted when the founders, CEO Chen Shachar and CTO Evgeni Khazanov, were watching Khazanov’s daughter practice tennis. Shachar…
How Will Tech Improve Accessibility
For disability rights advocate Haben Girma, it was about knowing there was chocolate cake in the university cafeteria. As a deafblind student at Lewis and Clark College, Girma said cafeteria workers often forgot to e-mail her the day’s menu, putting an unnecessary barrier between her and what she wanted to eat that day. For a…
The Best Products To Enhance The Classroom
When it comes to student learning, merely listening to a teacher talk isn’t enough. Studies show that humans have trouble remembering what they hear, especially after a delay. If you want students to have a better chance at putting new information into their long-term memory banks, classroom collaboration and education technology are a must. What…
The ABCs of Restroom Maintenance in Schools
As any teacher will tell you, entering a school restroom is like engaging in germ warfare. And while it may feel like too overwhelming a problem to solve, there are some common mistakes made in school maintenance whose correction could eliminate the spread of many pathogens. In addition, it’s a good idea to adopt some…
Google Teaches Academy About Augmented and Virtual Realities
At the IN-TECH Academy Google’s Expeditions Pioneer Program is teaching students about augmented reality (AR) and the kids are completely intrigued by the concept. AR differs from virtual reality in that with the latter goggles are used to immerse in another world while with the former computer-generated objects move into the user’s mobile computer screens….
Using Technology To Equalize Learning Differences
For a moment, let’s put aside the debate over whether laptops are a distraction in the classroom. Disregard the Twitter threads and op-eds alternately calling for a ban on such electronic devices or a ban on banning devices. Let’s instead recognize that the debate over whether laptops belong in the classroom — or even technology…
Tufts Uses Mapping Tool To Indentify School Needs
A recent initiative at Tufts University reached out to students to gather ideas for campus improvements. The Tufts Community Union Senate’s “Brown & Blueprint” program asked undergraduates for comments and feedback on the physical aspects of the campus as well as how students build community (or not) within those spaces. The project used coUrbanize Interactive, a mapping tool that…
Using Virtual Labs To Teach IT Skills
Many IT students are using virtual labs to develop skills necessary to compete for jobs and/or advance their careers in the industry. At the Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University, a Master of Information Systems Management degree is available. The program is focused on mid-career IT professionals interested in a step forward…
Virtual Reality Brings Live Operations to Many More Medical Students
Operating rooms are designed for maximization of space. That means they are quite small, allowing a minimal number of medical students to view a live surgery, which in turn limits learning opportunities. This setup is inefficient and wasteful, to say the least. But what can be done, given the space restrictions of the average OR?…
Positive Work Atmosphere and Incentives Curb Teacher Absences
Students are notorious for flimsily excused absences, but in some regions of the country teacher absences are just as frustrating for administrators. A middle school in Kentucky, however, has successfully boosted teacher attendance 57% by utilizing incentive strategies and general improvements in school work environments. Schools use several conventional methods to combat this problem including…
Chaperones Aren’t Just for the Prom: Key Step In Viral Replication Identified
Viruses are cellular parasites that reproduce themselves by hijacking the machinery of the cells they infect. We have significant knowledge regarding cell infection and virus reproduction of themselves within cells, but scarce is our understanding of the final stages of protein folding and virus construction. However, according to SciTechDaily, researchers at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh…
Watch: Mark Zuckerberg gives $30 million to aimed to raise literacy
Mark Zuckerberg has gotten behind personalized learning technology that adapts to a child’s interests and capabilities. The charity founded by Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, is giving $30 million to Harvard and MIT to launch a new learning program. “Reach Every Reader” is a 5-year web tool that finds a child’s reading issues before…
Watch: Should higher ed help cultivate digital literacy?
The growing vulnerabilities to hacking and data breaches has many pushing for more digital literacy in higher education. CIO of The College of Westchester, Kelly Walsh, recently wrote in strong support of more digital literacy. Though students’ openness on the internet has led to better and more diverse learning, it makes students vulnerable to attacks….
Watch: Educators are pushing for better school strategies to address student mental health
Educators are looking for new strategies to help address student mental health and reduce the pressure for perfection on teens. Current strategies like positive management strategies and staff education on mental health aren’t enough anymore, educators say. A California teacher suggests a 5-point strategy: Daily connections, open office hours, prioritizing mental health, flexibility, and connecting…
Watch: Colleges say that tablets have dramatically changed teaching
Harlow College reports that tablets in the classroom have brought staff and students together. Before the change, students were dissatisfied with IT facilities at Harlow. “Digital learning” was the answer. The tablets allow for staff and students to interact constantly and reducing time between submission and feedback. Though some departments were initially reluctant, it has…
The Department of Education Challenges Innovators to Disrupt Higher Ed
The US Department of Education is issuing a “Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge” that asks for new design concepts that cultivate a “truly student-centered ecosystem.” The move comes as part of a larger trend from governmental education officials looking to disrupt and innovate in the education industry. The challenge offers any accepted ideas with the most…
On the Future of For-Profit Higher Ed
Although private for-profit universities are hardly a new thing—the University of Phoenix, perhaps most famous for its online offerings, was actually founded in 1976—and have only grown with the advent of the internet, there is still a great deal of resistance from both student and government to this model of higher education. The public perception…
EdTech Report: Interoperability Makes Data More Valuable to Educators
EdTech products collect large amounts of data from a variety of sources, reports show. The key to utilizing this data is interoperability, putting datasets into context with one another and across systems. Interoperable data also reduces time strain on educators by centralizing and automatically conducting an analysis. Reports challenge educators to demand interoperable data from…
Watch: Despite Growth and Profits, Pearson is Selling its US K-12 Business
Education and EdTech giant Pearson is looking to sell its US K-12 business in spite of posting growth and profits. The sale fits the trend set by CEO John Fallon, who took over in 2013. Since then, the company has sold its stakes in numerous publications and traditional publishing houses. Fallon says the US K-12…
Watch: Could VR And Augmented Hurt The Development Of Your Child?
According to a 2016 survey of 38,000 U.S. educators used virtual or augmented reality programs in class. The number of teachers using VR tools in U.S. classrooms could jump to more than 15 percent by 2021 A recent study was done by Children and Virtual Reality, a collaboration between researchers, VR companies, universities and health…
Listen: Technology’s Impact on K-12 with Ryan Adkins
On today’s podcast, we get to chat with Ryan Adkins, the Director of Technology for Yorkville 115. We discuss the way technology has amplified the challenges that students traditionally face, the way his district approaches technology as an asset, the strategy of making sure that teachers have the opportunity to keep learning, and updating…
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