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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

This turned out to be a rewarding exercise with surprises, twists, and turns. The things you actually care about in smartphones or search engines or laptops happen far above the level of the kernel. But most people want a laptop or a phone with an operating system that “just works.”. First point. We’ve been at this for a while.

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Deciding what matters: Authentic teaching through setting boundaries

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. It’s a minute I’m not spending writing, and doing the things that I love, and reading, and exercising. No matter what I was working on, close the laptop.

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Counseling kids during the coronavirus: A tough job made even tougher

The Hechinger Report

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. In some districts, laptops and devices sent home with students have software that tracks keywords and alerts staff before students harm themselves or someone else.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

EdTech 150
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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 34 Edition)

Doug Levin

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

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Newsletter: Used PCs to Chromebooks (Today), New "Privacy Con" Speakers, More GlobalEd.TV, Quotes + News

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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