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Ten Resources and Next Steps: Education and Poverty….ASCD 2016

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Manny Scott is an original Freedom Writer, whose story is told in the 2007 movie, Freedom Writers. Here was a women that may have never read a page on formative assessment, but practiced it from a intuitive and caring heart. Why is it so Hard to Close the Digital Divide in High Poverty Schools? I was about to find out!

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Unlike formal schooling, individual content knowledge is not necessarily assessed through testing (Diaz, et al, 1999). Crossing the digital divide safely and trustingly: How ecologies of learning scaffold the journey. Assessing group and shared understanding in technology mediated interaction. Ede, L., & Lunsford, A.

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A hidden, public internet asset that could get more kids online for learning

The Hechinger Report

Bush called for universal broadband access in America by 2007. A central issue when granting private use of a public resource is assessing the public benefit. Zach Leverenz, an advocate for closing the digital divide, on the use of electromagnetic spectrum set aside for education. In 2004, President George W.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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