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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

When used effectively, technology can greatly contribute to creating equity in schools. However, we can only realize these equity-centered benefits when we use technology in innovative and powerful ways. However, we can only realize these equity-centered benefits when we use technology in innovative and powerful ways.

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Students Go Behind the Scenes at the CMA Awards to Discover the Power of STEAM in a New Virtual Field Trip from Discovery Education and the Country Music Association 

eSchool News

Country Music’s Biggest Night: STEAM Takes the Spotlight Virtual Field Trip shows students in grades 6-12 how science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) drive innovation in Country Music. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

by EZ EdTech! 2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. These two excellent tutorials will help you get started: by Thomas Blakemore. Valenza, J.K.

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Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

edWeb.net

When planning for and evaluating professional learning opportunities, the presenters recognized that technology enables teachers to be engaged in sustained social learning with their mentors and peers. The CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation report identified “technology vs. the pedagogy gap” as a hurdle to innovation in schools.

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Charting a New Path for Strategic Edtech Planning

edWeb.net

Previously, these were key elements in developing a strategic technology plan. In the edWebinar, “ Strategic Technology Planning: Aligning Priorities, Costs, Outcomes and Sustainability,” the presenters discussed new items that must become part of strategic plans. in educational leadership in 2011 from Trevecca Nazarene University.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Girls Who Code. URL: girlswhocode.com. URL: www.inacol.org. URL: makered.org.

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‘Bigly’ Education Decisions for 2017

Edsurge

Rick Hess has observed, no one knows exactly how the new administration's campaign promises will play out, there are two policy areas that edtech decision-makers ought to pay extra attention to. President Obama allowed the program to expire in 2009, but it was reauthorized for five years in 2011. School Choice. Its future looks bright.