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The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning

Doug Levin

I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons, including sloppiness in reporting, bias, and lack of relevance to education policy and practice considerations.

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US Edtech Policy Conversations Amidst Coronavirus Concerns with Tom Murray

The CoolCatTeacher

His most recent book, Personal & Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences that Impact a Lifetime , was released in October of 2019. Murray served as an elementary teacher, middle school teacher, middle school principal, elementary principal, and at the district level in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Motivating Teachers to Be Excellent in the K-2 Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. The Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection is here! This app is a digital supplemental curriculum solution for K-2nd grade – aligned with standards it includes over 150 curated apps inside their one simple app to install. Read my review.)

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How to Orchestrate a Digital Transformation

EdTech Magazine

Today, we have a gigabit wireless network deployed at our elementary, middle and high schools , and starting this fall, we expect to have deployed more than 3,000 Chromebooks to our students, teachers and administrators. Given today’s realities, going digital was the clear choice. Focus on Establishing Infrastructure. Customer Focused.

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OPINION: There are lessons to be learned from Finland, but giving smartphones to young children isn’t one of them

The Hechinger Report

American schools can learn valuable lessons from Finnish education, both positive and negative. In 2016, despite research showing that students who used computers more often at school performed much worse on reading and math PISA tests, the Finnish government announced it would spend millions of euros on ramping up digital learning.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). The report discusses how the Pendergast Elementary School District, in Glendale, Arizona, adopted FUSE , a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics platform created by Northwestern University.

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myON launches Summer 2016 Reading Challenge

eSchool News

Recently, the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and the White House included myON in its Champions of Change Summer Opportunity Project 2016 Action Toolkit, recognizing myON as a key solution for maximizing learning and motivating kids to read during the summer. Last year, 4.5 myON’s “Get in the Game and Read!” . •