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20 Years of Student Feedback Drives Digital Learning

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Can you guess what students said was their most-used mobile device in 2003? Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow and the founder of the heralded Speak Up Research Project, along with a panel of students, had a conversation about decades of trends and the latest shifts in digital learning today.

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Want to know more about Powerful Learning? Learning in (pp.

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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School

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Focusing on student engagement, student empowerment, and equity in education, they shared key lessons educators learned during the lockdown. Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. But one of the key factors emerging is equitable access to quality teachers.

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

Edsurge

We ask questions that have to do with digital learning, but we also ask questions about school climate. It just happens to happen from 8:00 to 2:30 in the classroom, but that doesn’t mean learning stops when they leave school. Another takeaway was that students want to co-learn with their teachers.

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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 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000).

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Technology Alone is not a Silver Bullet for School Improvement.

EdTechSandyK

I have been here since 2003 and I am "digital native" but I have taught here both before and after the laptops. The data reflected in the article comes solely from the state and is easily accessible on ncpublicschools.org (click on School Report Cards). I am a teacher in MGSD. I wanted to address a few things.

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Technology’s Impact on Student Learning: Insights from the Speak Up 2022 Congressional Briefing

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In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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