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Why I Still Believe in the iPad’s Positive Impact on Classrooms

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The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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How an LMS Can Solve Professional Learning's Challenges—and Keep Master Teachers Engaged

Edsurge

The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We EdSurge spoke with Dirkin about how an LMS can make professional learning more affordable and personalized and keep master teachers engaged—as well as what professional learning might look like in the future.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. We are seeing our teachers adapting blended learning into their math curriculum using Khan Academy and Matific. We've come a long way baby!

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Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

The Hechinger Report

When Pletnick joined the district in 2004, she had to find a way to manage the surging student population and, with it, students’ different academic needs. We saw bits and pieces of what we liked, but none of it was the Dysart way,” said Teresa Heatherly, director of curriculum, instruction and assessment.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. While some license holders leased their spectrum in the 1980s and ’90s, the market for it remained somewhat sluggish until 2004, when the FCC changed the permitted use for that part of the spectrum from television to internet and renamed it EBS.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes. Spence, is to design instruction that uses sound instructional strategies (as educators should do in all learning environments). should be embedded in online learning. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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"Always On" Education with Project Share #SXSWedu

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Notes from a breakout session at South by Southwest Edu 2011 Presenter: David McGeary, Harris County Department of Education, Digital Learning Specialist McGeary helped build the first version of the Texas Tour in ProjectShare Hybrid or blended learning fills the gap between what we teach in the classroom with what they do in the real world.

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