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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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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

A Shapegrams membership gets you access to all Shapegrams and gives you a license to distribute them to your students. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts.

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To Leverage Tech in Writing Instruction, This Superintendent Channeled Justin Bieber

Edsurge

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. A robust, district-wide writing initiative requires an enormous investment.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

From time to time, Jeff Livingston gets a call from an entrepreneur looking for advice about getting into the edtech market. As founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics, Livingston has spent the better part of two decades thinking about how to get edtech innovations to the students who need them most.

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Research Shows Technology Strategies That Positively Impact Student Learning

EdTechSandyK

Page''s Technology-Enriched Classrooms: Effects on Students of Low Socioeconomic Status from the ISTE Journal of Research on Technology in Education (2002) and John Schacter''s The Impact of Education Technology on Student Achievement: What the Most Current Research Has to Say from the Milken Exchange on Education Technology (1999).

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First Lady Jill Biden Welcomes Students Across America to the Nation’s Capital in Discovery Education’s City of U.S. Virtual Field Trip to Washington, D.C.

eSchool News

SILVER SPRING, MD (Friday, May 14, 2021) —For many American elementary and middle school students, a field trip to Washington, D.C. million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 140 countries and territories. To ensure all students can experience Washington, D.C. The City of U.S.

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OPINION: Fixing education during the pandemic means fixing an uneasy relationship with technology

The Hechinger Report

A recent survey conducted by the University of Virginia (UVA) and the EdTech Evidence Exchange found that an overwhelming share of educators see a sharply increased need for individualized attention and instruction as a result of learning-from-home challenges, including unequal access to technology and varying levels of support from caring adults.