November 5, 2024

How Smarter Learning Environments Can Help Schools Close Opportunity Gaps and more

How Smarter Learning Environments Can Help Schools Close Opportunity Gaps

EdTech Digest

A designer’s view of the future means student-friendly, intentionally-built learning spaces. GUEST COLUMN | by Danish Kurani It’s 8:30 a.m. in rural Alabama, and a class of 16 students is beginning their school day. However, students aren’t sitting in rows or opening textbooks per their teacher’s request. Instead, desks are modular, lessons are…

Going from Survival to Creation Mode with Emily Breakfield | Screencastify EdTech Heroes

Screencastify Emily Breakfield of Harlem Consolidated School District #122 joins EdTech Heroes to explain how she approaches video creation …

EdTech needs Schooling

Privacy International This week we’re talking about Education Technology: what is it? Why are schools using it? Is it safe? How can we make sure that …

What Is Backup as a Service (BaaS), and Should K–12 Schools Consider It?

EdTech Magazine: K-12

Every 11 seconds, bad actors use ransomware to attack the data-rich education sector, targeting school districts nationwide. Earlier this year, schools in New Mexico closed for two days when a hack compromised data on emergency contacts and the names of adults authorized to pick up students from school. With the increased risk to school data and op…

Survey: Few teens view social media as negative

SmartBrief on EdTech

About one-third of teenagers reported having a primarily positive experience on social media, and 59% said it’s not positive  -More- …

Talentsoft Fest – EXHIBICIÓN EDTECH

Fedesoft

60: Asking New Questions in New Ways and Digitizing Docs for the Masses, Terry Robinson, SVP of Global Academic Business & Seth Cayley, VP for Global Academic Product

EdUp EdTech, hosted by Holly Owens

 Overview In this episode, I got to chat with two fantastic humans, Terry Robinson, Senior Vice President of Gale’s Global Academic Business, and Seth Cayley, Vice President for Global Academic Product at Gale. These two world travelers have vast experience and knowledge to share about higher education, democratizing access to resources, and rese…

Edtalk Hall 3: Landscape of Venture Backed Web3 Edtech

Ed3 DAO Billions of dollars have been invested in web3 while smaller amounts have been invested in edtech. What is the intersection of …

Accessibility and Acceptance

Magic EdTech Accept those with all types of disabilities! Find out more about accessibility services with Magic EdTech here: …

If Football Is a Game of Inches, Esports is a “Game of Milliseconds”

EdTech Magazine: Higher Ed

For Albertus Magnus College, a small liberal arts college in New Haven, Conn., competitive video gaming, or esports, represented an opportunity to heighten its profile while offering a valuable activity for students. Jeremy Peterson, a network analyst and media coordinator with the college’s IT team, helped found the college’s esports program. At t…

Best Annotated Bibliography Generators for Teachers and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

To start with, let’s first break down the phrase annotated bibliography into its components and define each one of them. A bibliography is basically a list of references of cited works that one used in their research. Annotation refers to ‘a summary and/or evaluation’. As such, An annotated bibliography is a list of references in which each refe…