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Not every ed-tech tool has to be a bespoke platform or mobile app. A fourth-grade teacher at the Future of Education Technology Conference this week presented a collection of useful or fun websites available for free. -
North East Independent School District, which is located in San Antonio, may soon be fighting a legal battle with the Texas Education Agency over its controversial cellphone policy.
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One of the key lessons from Florida Virtual School’s collaboration with the AI-enabled data platform Doowii was the importance of spending time with users to understand their needs and limits.
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Colorado Springs School District 11 experienced what's known as a denial of service attack on March 11, district officials confirmed Thursday.
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Many districts across the state kicked off computerized Common Core exams last week, and while relatively few schools opted to administer the exams the first week in a six-week testing window, no major problems were reported.
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Pearson, the testing company that created the state’s new Common Core-aligned exams, has fielded roughly 9,600 phone calls, emails and chats from Ohio districts since testing started on Feb. 16.
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If you're the type of person who thinks that wooden toys were good enough for Thomas Jefferson, so why not our kids? — then Tommy Chang won’t be your favorite superintendent.
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State Board members and parents want more assurances that information students are supplying won't be mined, shared or extrapolated for marketing or profiling purposes.
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The Boone County district explains how collaboration, resource sharing, and dialog can all be facilitated by the judicious use of educational networking tools, and without the use of social media.
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Students in Richland 2’s Institute of Innovation will learn both hard and soft skills – from app development and bookkeeping to interviewing and dealing in customer service – that employers look for in potential hires.
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The Help America Vote Act required states to adopt new voting machines for federal elections, but nonpartisan elections, such as those in school districts and some villages, were not covered until now.
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The Canvas integration plan follows the Monroe County district's approval to replace iPads with new HP Windows tablets with detachable keyboards in the fall.
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The proposed system, called Sapphire, would include web portals for students and parents, so they could access grades or assignments.
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Legislators are introducing more bills this year to govern and prohibit data practices in the education technology community.
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Following Arizona's footsteps, states are starting to make students pass the U.S. citizenship test that immigrants take in an effort to create a better-informed citizenry.
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The attack was detected Thursday at American Institutes for Research, the Washington, D.C.-based company that produces the test.
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The public-private partnership will bring broadband to businesses throughout the city, using an underground conduit to lay miles of fiber-optic cable.
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With no way to salvage the Idaho Education Network contract, the state passed a bill to reimburse districts for their own individual broadband contracts for the rest of the fiscal year, through June.
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The commission's new budget makes it easier for schools and libraries to get broadband and Wi-Fi.
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A design competition for school report cards resulted in many options under the creative common license so that states can then easily adopt them.
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