Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

However, too many students are still in the same situation I was years ago — disengaged from learning. Students must have access to digital content that engages them in problems worth solving. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives. To change this, three things need to happen.

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Blackboard Instructional Materials Professional Learning Digital Learning 168

SETDA Says

MAY 26, 2020

In support of state leadership, SETDA recently published the State Education Agency Considerations for CARES Act Funding as Related to Digital Learning.

Digital Learning 50

Digital Learning Learning Education Equity of Access 50

Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Today, we know much more about designing effective instruction, and teachers and students have more instructional resource options than ever before. However, too many students are still in the same situation I was years ago — disengaged from learning. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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Blackboard Instructional Materials Professional Learning Digital Learning 125

SETDA Says

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Always working to engage state leaders, affiliates members, private sector partners, and partner organizations-SETDA developed tools and resources to support national, state, district and school leaders in the implementation of the digital teaching and learning. 2019 was an action packed year for SETDA.

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Policies Resources Education Tools 52

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families.

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Resources Equity of Access Instructional Materials Elementary 82

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading. Jose Florido, Education Lead & Chief Market Development, U.S.,

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

SETDA Says

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Guest Post from Cynthia Curry is Co-Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning (AEM Center) What do you get when you combine a state educational technology director with a state accessibility expert?

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AEM Accessibility Technology Instructional Materials 47

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

This kind of connectivity is necessary, the authors note, to help connect students to high-quality digital learning opportunities. It also highlights state leaders who have helped their states put these digital learning opportunities directly in front of teachers and students. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity.

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Report Broadband E-rate Advocacy 40

edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. The leaders agreed, offer important lessons that inform post-pandemic science teaching and learning.

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Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 79

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Creating OER, which are free to use, share, and edit, would help increase educators’ access to educational, training, and instructional materials, according to the more than 85 stakeholder organizations that signed the letter. Next page: Five core principles for OER policies. Open Government National Action Plan.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

It will provide more support for students who are struggling in the online environment, it will take some of the burden off of the teachers, and it will help schools support educational equity by creating greater access to services that previously were only available to families that could afford it. – Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 137

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

However, when the programs can talk to each other and teachers can access the data they need from a single dashboard, then the data is working for the students and teachers instead of becoming a burden. Folkers currently oversees the Nebraska Department of Education’s Information, Technology, Data, and Digital Learning efforts.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading. Jose Florido, Education Lead & Chief Market Development, U.S.,

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

SETDA Says

MARCH 2, 2020

Access to the treatment would come through scientific, research-based trials in partnership with flagship research institutes. This may sound promising, but what if […].

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Accessibility Technology Instructional Materials Education 96