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Mapping Out-of-School-Time Opportunities: Why It Matters

Digital Promise

As an organization that works to support the programs and people that prepare learners for the digital world, CLX realized it might be useful to know exactly who they could work with in the city of Chicago. The good news is that you don’t need a bunch of fancy tools to start surveying your OST learning ecosystem.

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They helped all schools get good internet, now they?re focusing on homes

The Hechinger Report

More than 99 percent of schools nationwide have access to speedy and reliable internet, making online learning an option for their students. School buildings are closed because of coronavirus, and the bandwidth that powered digital learning for kids is going unused. Only, now it doesn’t matter.

Advocacy 140
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Buncee is headed to FETC19

Buncee

Learn how Buncee allows teachers to create and customize lessons focused on historical primary sources for their classroom allowing students to work at their own pace through carefully crafted, interactive digital lessons that support natural differentiation, collaboration, and the ultimate student-centered classroom. Choice, My Voice.

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Launching Future Ready Librarians

NeverEndingSearch

When a superintendent signs the Future Ready Pledge , he or she commits to implementing meaningful changes toward a digital learning transition that supports teachers, and addresses the district’s vision for student learning. district-wide outline seven tenets relating to digital learning. .

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What Does It Mean to Deliver a ‘Black College Education’ Online?

Edsurge

Digital tools may not fully convey the experience of going to HBCU football games and step shows, then. It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans.

Education 157
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Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

The Hechinger Report

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly.

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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

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. One of the struggles in Wisconsin is digital learning days, where students with limited or no access to WIFI at home cannot access their education.

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