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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips.

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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. FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2016 $0 (President Obama’s request: $200,000,000).

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

According to the ECAR 2016 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 96% of undergraduate students now own a smartphone. Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C.

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America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

The Hechinger Report

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. Krislov was vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan in 2003 when the Supreme Court ruled in Gratz v. Before Satyajit Dattagupta became dean of admission in 2016, “race was not considered,” he said. That works for the University of Chicago.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a.org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Post-truth or truthiness.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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