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Learn how the Alliance for Excellent Education can help you and your students! | @All4ed

TeacherCast

The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington based advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are ready for success in college. Jeff sits down with Terri Schwartzbeck and Sam Patterson to discuss the Alliance for Excellent Education, Digital Learning Day and how you can have a Future Ready School.

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Learner Agency : Pushing the Boundaries of Educational Possibilities in the Digital Age

The PL2C Blog

Digital Learning Coach, Instructional Technology Facilitator and Research Associate at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. The implication is that the most transformative learning experiences will be those that are directed by the learner’s own endeavors and curiosities.” Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012).

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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly.

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Live Thursday, February 2nd - Panel on Personal Learning Profiles

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

And my perennial question: in a vision of teachers as lead-learners, what provisions are being made to bring personal learning profiles to the profession itself? psid=2012-02-02.1707.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link]. Find her on the web at [link] or email barbara.bray@gmail.com. Kathleen H.

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

The Hechinger Report

When Darling-Hammond looked around recently for school districts with online education plans that California might learn from, hurricane- and flood-prone districts in southern Florida stood out, she said. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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Mission (Almost) Accomplished: Nonprofit EducationSuperHighway Prepares to Sunset

Edsurge

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). It’s the beginning of the end of the road for EducationSuperHighway.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

In addition, they reexamined how to build consistency into their learning management system, how to train parents on using the technology, and placed technology coaches into every school for on-site support. Amanda Karhuse has served as the director of advocacy for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) since 2006.

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