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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

Students need access to tools that work. School, district, and state leaders make technology decisions every day that will affect student tech fluency, not to mention learning outcomes. But how do these leaders know whether their investments will lead to the student learning outcomes they desire? Rapidly emerging technologies.

EdTech 60
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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In the early years of Lindsay’s experiment, few students had internet access at home. “I

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The Characteristics Of A Good School

TeachThought - Learn better.

These are astoundingly important questions–ones that must be answered with social needs, teacher gifts, and technology access in mind. Most modern academic standards take a body-of-knowledge approach to education. This, to me, seems to be a dated approach to learning that continues to hamper our attempts to innovate.