The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 165

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 75

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. Google buys Logitech and a whole host of media companies and university lectures. AHS students each have their own laptop and routinely engage in tele-learning with 10 sister schools all around the world.

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Laptops Secondary Google Company 214

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. A $21 million settlement paid by NEC in 2006 for price-fixing.

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49