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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Students can access learning materials outside of school. Ensuring internet access outside of school. Technology will help create equity in schools when it’s used powerfully.

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TCEA 2011 Legislative Update Advocacy Panel

EdTechSandyK

Notes from TCEA 2011 Panel. Second barrier is lack of access to digital high speed connections at home. We need to make sure people have a way to access the content. How can we budget for digital access for those who need it without budgeting for those who don''t? Equal access for children of poverty is an issue.

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Connecting SEL with Academic Achievement to Achieve True Education Equity

edWeb.net

Provide access to integrated wraparound services and supports, which should include partnering with community officials like law enforcement and hospitals to ensure that students receive support wherever and whenever they need it. SEL should be integrated into the materials; Develop inclusive discipline and dress code policies.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

So far, the pandemic has revealed the challenges of conducting education remotely as well as uneven access to Wi-Fi and devices such as laptops. million kids statewide lacked access to Wi-Fi and computers. Education systems will also have to adjust how they assess students and schools.

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OnTRACK for College Readiness: Digital Tools & Resources #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Notes from SXSWedu 2011 breakout session. Students don''t have to take an entire history course, they can just review the part on the Civil War if that is what is needed Project Goals Help students exceed the minimum score required on each high school STAAR assessment in order to meed graduation requirements.

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content. According to the American Association of University Professors , in Fall 2011 41.5% Students in some courses also had access to lecture video. Do you find that hard to believe?

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

The Hechinger Report

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. Candace Cortiella, the director of The Advocacy Institute.

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