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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. link] Berger et al.

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Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

Edsurge

Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks. Because of the exposure and the access that students have to so many different digital products—including being able to access the internet anywhere, any time—that learning experience is happening all the time.

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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now

edWeb.net

They showed up in tech access and connectivity, food availability and even transportation, especially in historically underserved communities. Schools and districts set up temporary solutions that got them through the most challenging pandemic moments, from tech access to transportation. Access to food, for example, among them.

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Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites

The Hechinger Report

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. CIPA, a federal law passed in 2000, requires schools seeking subsidized internet access to keep students from seeing obscene or harmful images online—especially porn.