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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. This article was modified and published by eSchool News.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning Revolution Events Global Education Conference , November 17th - 21st, 2014 Partner Spotlight Africa ICT Right (AIR) is an ICT-oriented non-profit organization established in 2007 with its Headquarter in Ghana and run by a team of volunteers. Rasheed also will discuss how the district celebrates Digital Citizenship Week.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet. Technology.

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Educational Technology ? Balancing Home and School ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? Classroom 2.0 ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Elementary Years ? Engagement ? Family & Parenting ? Future of Eduction ? Gap Years & Family Sabbaticals ? Global Collaborations ?

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

million into schoolwide technology upgrades. One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. We literally dumpster-dive for technology.”. The measure failed. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

.” I mean, yes, I’m totally making up the framing of the “trends” angle here (in the hopes, I confess, to defanging all those ridiculous clickbait articles that just list a bunch of shiny new consumer technology products and predict that they’re poised to “revolutionize school”).