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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2003 $700,500,000. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. However, when you consider that the smartphone may be the main source of Internet access, it begins to make more sense. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

Resources for a post truth teaching toolkit: ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Authority Is Constructed and Contextual : Though aimed at university students, this important document reframes the way we consider authority and is well worth examining with high school students and faculty. .” ( Wikipedia ).

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district. You are trying to take that from them.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

And in another post, I will look at the administration’s efforts to promote STEM and CS education via the Computer Science For All initiative launched in January ; in yet another I’ll look at its efforts to encourage schools use open educational resources via the GoOpen initiative which it launched last year.