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AI and connectivity: Pillars of the new education revolution

eSchool News

Key points: AI will be key for transforming learning and preparing students for the workforce Still, many countries face equity and accessibility challenges See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education? This means not only transforming the contents and dynamics of pedagogic practice, but also the means.

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CoSN 2019: How Teachers Can Revolutionize the Future of Education

EdTech Magazine

“Today when we talk about education, we only talk about three things: the curriculum, the teacher and the assessments,” Zhao told attendees at the Consortium for School Networking’s 2019 annual conference keynote session, Envisioning the Skills Students Need: 2030. However, students’ learning should not stop when the final bell rings.

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To Improve Education, We Need to Look at the Last 50 Years, Not Just the Last 18 Months

Edsurge

I welcome the opportunity to change our education system to meet the needs of all children. Because the truth is while the pandemic may have exacerbated the existing issues within our education system, it certainly did not create them. Why on Earth should we go back to pre-COVID education policies and systems?

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Looking for a Summer Volunteer Opportunity?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Using [the online tool] mysimpleshow, volunteers are encouraged to explain details and background of these 17 Global Goals of the Agenda 2030 in short and entertaining explainer videos. When you sign up, you choose a topic, access mysimpleshow, and create your explainer video. Volunteers can sign up at simpleshow-foundation.org. .

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Colleges sign on for a 15-step program to “erase equity gaps” in completion

The Hechinger Report

These efforts are two of the 15 recommendations in a project called the Moon Shot for Equity, a plan that seeks to eliminate college graduation equity gaps by 2030. The Moon Shot program is specifically designed to close gaps for Black, Latino, Native American, first generation and other historically underserved students by 2030.

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Verizon launches free trainings and tools to help educators navigate digital instruction

eSchool News

Educators across the nation can now access Teacher Training Pathways , a free platform offering courses aligned to micro-credentials on remote and hybrid learning, instructional technology coaching and more. Applications are now being accepted by Digital Promise from districts with Title I schools across the nation.

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Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates

The Hechinger Report

Chandra Scott, director of strategic outcomes for the independent nonprofit Mobile Area Education Foundation, sat in on meetings to attract new business to the area, where boosters extolled the education system. “We Their goal: for 75,000 Mobile residents to earn new degrees by 2030. We thought things were fine,” Scott says. “We

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