{"id":120322,"date":"2019-02-06T15:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=120322"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T23:07:48","slug":"success-in-the-first-year-of-connected","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/success-in-the-first-year-of-connected","title":{"rendered":"Success in the First Year of ConnectED"},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10392,25032],"tags":[163382,157412,162592,160632,138062],"arcuser_issues":[123522],"class_list":["post-120322","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-online","category-education-2","tag-arcgis-online","tag-data","tag-education","tag-maps","tag-science","arcuser_issues-summer-2015"],"acf":{"short_description":"In 2013, President Obama launched the ConnectED Initiative to boost access to digital resources.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":120342,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"Education is a process of engagement, not of delivery. Technology has brought many opportunities for engagement, but not all students have had the chance to build the tech skills so important for today and tomorrow.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In 2013, President Obama launched the ConnectED Initiative to boost access to digital resources. He asked private industry to provide more devices, connectivity, learning resources, and teacher support for schools. On May 27, 2014, Esri made a billion dollar offer: Any K\u201312 school in the United States could acquire an ArcGIS Online organizational account for instructional purposes for free.\r\n\r\nDuring the first year, more than a thousand ArcGIS Online accounts have been provisioned for K\u201312 schools<\/a>. Where accounts have been implemented, much has happened. Educators are using apps, external groups are sharing content, leaders are crafting maps and scenes, and students are constructing data, designing presentations and story maps, and building knowledge and skills on all types of devices.\r\n\r\nUses range from quick demos for a single student to hour-long activities for multiple class sections to projects that last weeks and generate national attention. Here are just a few examples of the kinds of learning opportunities that access to Esri software has enabled."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":120332,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"