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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

NeverEndingSearch

See video at 28:40.) They explored EBSCO’s Student Research Center, with its available full-text access to magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, primary sources, video, and more. He discussed the digital divide with them. Are we doing enough to make our examples of effective practice truly visible to the public?

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. “For

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

Wybrant cites the North Dakota Access Pipeline as an example. Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, in his classroom with students at William J. He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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