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Where Are the School Librarians? New Study Shows 20 Percent Decline In Past Decade

Edsurge

What we knew from our work since 2018 is that we've been losing school librarians at a pretty alarming rate for a decade,” says Keith Curry Lance, a library statistics and research associate with the RSL Research Group, and co-author of the study. The dropping rate of districts with librarians isn’t a recent change.

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How Library Closures Hurt Adult Learners as Kids Doubled Down on Digital Reading

Edsurge

adults lost their main source of internet access as libraries started to shut down in March 2020. Among its recommendations, New America calls on policymakers to “expand the E-Rate Program so that libraries and schools can get discounts on the technology services that patrons and students need to get online from home.”

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AI ART Bootcamp for Teachers and Librarians: An Online Course on AI Art-Making Tools, Techniques, and Creativity

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I only truly started using image-generating AI tools around 2020. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations. Follow her on social media at: [link] [link]

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O. If not, why not?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 16 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O. If not, why not?

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Starts Friday: AI ART Virtual Bootcamp for Teachers and Librarians: An Online Course on AI Art-Making Tools, Techniques, and Creativity

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I only truly started using image-generating AI tools around 2020. SPECIAL GROUP RATES (email admin@learningrevolution.com to arrange) : Multiple individual registrations from the same organization paid together: $149 each for 3+ registrations. Follow her on social media at: [link] [link]

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Education in the Era of COVID-19: Why Connection Matters

Digital Promise

We like to say we’re ‘socially connected, physically distant,’ instead of social distancing, because human interaction is just so important.”. Sitka School District prepares for meals on April 7, 2020. Students receive four days of meals during distribution. Prior to spring break, we had a virtual district-wide fire drill.