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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. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. Jeff Livingston, founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics “I say, ‘Have you watched Abbott Elementary?’” So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.”

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Next Week - "Virtual Reality and Learning" Mini-Conference on Tuesday, March 29th

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Next Tuesday, March 29th, 2002, is our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," which will be held online (and for free). We currently have over 2,500 registrations! Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. Teaching and learning are increasingly being measured and quantified to enable analysis of the relationship between inputs (e.g.,

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The magic pebble and a lazy bull: The book ban movement has a long timeline

The Hechinger Report

Probably the one that has me the most stumped is ‘Inventions and Inventors’ by Roger Smith from 2002. He gathered librarians in January 2022 and told them that students didn’t need access to books about sexuality or transgender people. What’s controversial about a book on inventions??” What does that really mean?

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

The Hechinger Report

Families in Williams’s virtually all-black neighborhood were set to lose access to the schools that have served their community for half a century. The one thing that would help keep my kids—or any child—off the streets is access to good education. You are trying to take that from them. You are trying to take that from them.

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