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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

In October 2016, Sprint also announced its 1 Million Project , providing up to 1 million lines of free broadband service and a free device over a four-year period to low-income high school students who lack internet access at home. The future of ConnectED: Exactly how much play should and does the government have in bringing edtech to K-12?

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Curating OER. It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. For one thing, not all OER are created equally good and not all commercial products are at all bad. 14 May 2016 .

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Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

In fall 2016, Susan will begin a two-year appointment as the inaugural Gates-funded Professor of Practice under the University of Washington Information School’s (iSchool) “Future of Libraries” Initiative, where she will teach, engage with curriculum innovation and complete a research project. He holds an M.Ed He holds an M.Ed

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How Will the Presidential Election Results Influence Education Technology in Schools?

Doug Levin

16 November 2016. As quoted in: Dobo, Nichole. “ How will the presidential election results influence education technology in schools? ” The Hechinger Report. Will schools continue to accelerate the pace of blended learning – which incorporates technology into classes along with in-person instruction? No one knows.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning.