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As district IT teams prepare their Chromebooks to go home with students during school closures due to coronavirus, Google has developed some text resources to help them make the changes needed to those devices.
03/18/2020
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Local community nonprofits in the United States that serve children ages 12 and under have been invited to apply for grants this week, specifically to ramp up their work in serving health and nutritional needs and special education support through the current COVID-19 crisis.
03/16/2020
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Charter Communications is offering free broadband access for 60 days to any household with K–12 or college students affected by COVID-19 closings.
03/16/2020
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SETDA, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, has produced the "Coalition for eLearning," to help state leaders and others make decisions about how to respond to school closures in the face of COVID-19.
03/16/2020
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Public broadcasting stations in California have announced plans to support students sequestered at home because of COVID-19 by delivering schedules of daily education television programs that mesh with state learning standards.
03/16/2020
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Today the Coronavirus has left public school systems and private schools scrambling to find alternative ways to continue to educate students for an extended period of time.
03/16/2020
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More than half of the states in the United States have now closed all of their schools, along with all of the largest individual school districts.
03/16/2020
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Upcoming funding opportunities for schools
03/16/2020
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Learning management system company Blackboard has created a self-service portal where schools can immediately subscribe to its digital collaboration platform, Blackboard Collaborate.
03/13/2020
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Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district, today announced it would be closing its schools beginning Monday. LAUSD serves more than 730,000 students. The closures are expected to last two weeks.
03/13/2020
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The state closures seem by and large to have been implemented with very little or no coordination with school or district leaders, and none include concrete plans for delivering educational services during the closures.
03/13/2020
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The state of Maryland announced it’s shutting down all public K–12 schools beginning Monday, owing to fears over the Novel Coronavirus, and told administrators and faculty they need to “immediately prepare for, and put into place, measures for the continuity of educational services during this prolonged period of school closure.”
03/12/2020
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The offer applies to three programs: ABCmouse, Adventure Academy and ReadingIQ.
03/12/2020
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Education technology company Kahoot! has begun offering free access to the "premium" version of the program, which allows students to learn through gaming. This move comes in response to the number of schools and colleges that are shifting to online education to minimize face-to-face contact during the coronavirus pandemic.
03/12/2020
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Could a shake-up of the school schedule lead to better learning outcomes?
03/11/2020
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Why does education technology works in some schools and districts but not others?
03/11/2020
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When choosing STEM tools for girls, it is important to choose tools that engage girls in active problem-solving, hands-on learning, building and engineering.
03/10/2020
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Two cybersecurity reports that highlight mobile device risks — one from Verizon and the other from NetScout Systems — have also touched on the education sector in their findings.
03/10/2020