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Looking Ahead to the 2020-2021 School Year

Digital Promise

Even if physical buildings are forced to remain closed, we must remember that schools themselves are not closed—learning must, and will, continue. Digital learning also strengthens each teacher’s ability to meet the needs of each student, regardless of whether they are in the classroom or at home.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms. With 1 Gbps of bandwidth and 1 Wi-Fi access point per classroom, the district meets the bandwidth goals set by the Oklahoma Connect & Learn Initiative and SETDA. The Impact.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Personalized Professional Learning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Such environments enable anytime, anywhere learning.

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How to DIY Your Distance Learning PD

Graphite Blog

Joining the organization will give you access to free resources and also allow you to create, save, print, and share customized lesson plans. EdCamp : The first EdCamp was hosted in 2010 in Philadelphia, and since then it has expanded into decentralized community, hosting events called "un-conferences.

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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

The goal of digital equity is to ensure that all students have access to devices, high-speed internet, and opportunities to learn both in school and out. Neil sees the impact this has on the school community and is challenged to ensure digital equity when 25% of students don’t have internet at home.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

To Address It: To address this, state policies were developed that successfully eliminated any barriers to student access and opportunities. Wyoming Switchboard Network homepage. Wyoming educators get up and stretch in the middle of a PD Day.

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Google Challenges for Teachers! (FREE Template by Pam Hubler)

Shake Up Learning

Many of them have been able to get by with the knowledge they had of basic email and word processing tools they had access to on their desktop computers but never had a reason to explore new tools. Things are different when you have to access and create files remotely using different devices. Next Steps.

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