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Looking Ahead to the 2020-2021 School Year

Digital Promise

As an example of what’s possible this fall, our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) were well-positioned to pivot quickly at the start of the pandemic because of its provision of access to digital learning.

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The Greatest Challenge Facing School Leaders in a Digital World

Edsurge

Fed by our own uncertainties, occasional anecdotes, and sensational stories from the media, we ignore the data that overwhelmingly show that digital environments are no worse—and often better—than in-person environments. A few workshops here and there rarely result in large-scale changes in implementation.

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A PD Perspective

My Island View

Things change so fast, that we are now faced with “data obsolescence”. The problems: personal, political and cultural of these schools may be helped by supported PD, but the foundational issues need more political solutions. Probably the biggest problem teachers have is the rapid rate of change that occurs in our computer-driven culture.

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A PD Perspective

My Island View

Things change so fast, that we are now faced with “data obsolescence”. The problems: personal, political and cultural of these schools may be helped by supported PD, but the foundational issues need more political solutions. Probably the biggest problem teachers have is the rapid rate of change that occurs in our computer-driven culture.

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A PD Perspective

My Island View

Things change so fast, that we are now faced with “data obsolescence”. The problems: personal, political and cultural of these schools may be helped by supported PD, but the foundational issues need more political solutions. Probably the biggest problem teachers have is the rapid rate of change that occurs in our computer-driven culture.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.