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It’s late 2015 and we’re still overblocking the Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. Sometimes it’s simple confusion around what actually must be filtered.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Quizizz-2015. Many of those technologies support collaboration. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Clever-2012.

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It’s About the Learning, Not the Technology … Until It Breaks

Graphite Blog

As technologies evolve and improve, it is critical that technology support models evolve with the technology. For example, in a 1:1 computing program, one of the common baseline positions for a deployment has been that individual users not be able to install new software or update existing software.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Teachers are supported by three “teachers on special assignment,” who stepped out of the classroom to provide full-time instructional technology support.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. Teachers are supported by three “teachers on special assignment,” who stepped out of the classroom to provide full-time instructional technology support.