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New Cohort Opportunity for Designing Powerful Learning Experiences

Digital Promise

In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond. We gained insight from educators on the barriers that exist to continue making in new contexts like distance and hybrid learning.

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

Education Superhighway

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. Merritt can now rely on Internet access throughout the school without having to worry about the signal dropping. Creating Guidelines Around Classroom Technology Use.

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7 Great NonProfits Changing the Face of Professional Learning

Tom Murray

During my time as a public school employee, I’d occasionally hear about educational organizations that were working to support schools in some capacity. CUE is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1978 with a goal to inspire innovative learners in all disciplines from preschool through college. EdCamp Foundation.

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

Edsurge

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. Wyoming educators get up and stretch in the middle of a PD Day.

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Four Ways School Leaders Can Support Meaningful Innovation

MindShift

In education and beyond, innovation is usually the result of iteration rather than central planning. Frederick Pilot School, which was founded by Deb Socia, a leading advocate for technology access for students in poverty-impacted communities. The fourth entry point is about guidelines and guardrails.

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8 Things to Look for in Today’s Professional Learning (Part 2)

The Principal of Change

We not only have access to all of the information in our world today, but we have access to one another. Access to one another can accelerate and amplify powerful learning opportunities. More and more, educators are becoming both consumers and creators of information, which is accelerating the opportunities for our students.