The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference is just one week away! Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 36

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 Technology is transforming what happens when a child goes to school | The Economist → Reformers are using new software to “personalise” learning: How well the model will work when it spreads is unclear. The software would have registered students' locations when writing essays on the app.)

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

When it comes to ed-tech software, customization may be key in ensuring teaching and learning success, according to research from the Clayton Christensen Institute. The need for high-speed broadband internet in every classroom in the U.S. has been trumpeted by politicians, policy makers, and ed-tech stakeholders in recent years.

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Trends Broadband Strategy Learning 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles. While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. People talked about it as a great leveler.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. This virtual conference will be hosted in Adobe Connect and registration is free for librarians and leaders of libraries.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The students matched their interests with postings of paid internships from about 30 of the school’s corporate partners, including the educational software company Codemoji, the advertising agency DDB and Black Tech Mecca, a think tank studying technology use and development by African-Americans. Field trips toured local startups.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Frankie Jackson.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 85

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Sessions are free to watch for five days, then become part of the Home Learning Summit library. Libraries and Librarians ? We have several sessions each day, with (lots) more coming ( and that could include you! ). A current list is below. Hacking Your Education ? High School ? Higher Education ? Homeschooling ? Hope and Healing ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 Who has benefited? A History of E-rate Legislation.

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” The funding actually occurred in November 2015 but was not disclosed until required by law. ” More via The New York Times. million total.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40