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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets – From Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

EdTechTeacher

Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. With every generation of computing technology, a small group of educators has been able to use new tools in transformative ways, but on the whole, classroom practices have proven stubbornly resistant to change.

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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

Edsurge

It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. Teachers do them on a mobile device or a laptop, or they do them one-on-one with kids. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Even after I left the classroom and started doing instructional coaching, teaching was still my hobby. And when I heard this new “brilliant’ idea of forcing teachers to teach in unsafe classrooms while simultaneously teaching students at home who were watching via live video, it just stunned me. My focus became broader, I guess.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. As Johnson settled in Clarksdale in 2010, the reasons for her to do that work in her adopted hometown multiplied. Sometimes the reading was followed by a quiz on one of the omnipresent laptops, but not today.

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Wednesday Early - Reforming Ed Reform Panel with Downes, Gardner, Kohn, and Stager

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He has published numerous articles both online and in print, including The Future of Online Learning (1998), Learning Objects (2000), Resource Profiles (2003), and E-Learning 2.0 Downes is perhaps best known for his daily nesletter, OLDaily, which is distributed by web, email and RSS to thousands of subscribers around the world.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. A replica of his classroom was installed in the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC. airing on Discovery in 2020.)

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. E-rate and the History of the Future of the “Digital Divide” When the E-rate program was first established in 1996, only 14% of K–12 classrooms in the US had access to the Internet. ” That is, CIPA requires Web filtering.

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