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Digital Equity in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

Providing families with used school-issued Chromebooks, adding access points outside the school buildings, and collaborating with community partners on projects such as youth centers and public libraries are providing students and the entire community with access to technology. Even more widespread in school districts are LTE hotspots.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

Student mobility within and across states is a big issue. Consider, too, international students interested in studying in the U.S. (or students interested in studying abroad). Management and tracking of school assets (like property, buses, furniture, textbooks, library books/journals, and technology).

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Tweeting response to the NEA Opportunity Dashboard

NeverEndingSearch

Greetings from Hershey and #PSLA15 where AASL President Terri Grief shared a plan for responding to the omission of school libraries from the NEA Opportunity Dashboard literature. Let’s get mobilized! Classifying school librarians as support staff will cause a deterioration of library services for our nation’s children.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new. People have to remember “the pandemic isn’t over,” she said.

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Sign Up Now - Fascinating New Sessions at "Privacy in the Digital Age" Virtual Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're in the process of adding five fascinating new sessions to the Library 2.016 mini-conference: "Privacy in the Digital Age." Their topic will be "A Current Update on Library Records, Privacy, and National Security Letters." Julie Oborny, Web Librarian at the San José Public Library , on their "Virtual Privacy Lab."

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GlobalEdCon 2013 - Day Three Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Use of Mobile Devices For The Development of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) In The Dominican Republic (Case Study) - English Version - Alfonso Sintjago, IT Fellow, PhD Student 12:00am (Thursday) Teaching global challenges with Solution Focus to increase engagement and inspire action - Kristina Stoney, Director'

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Eighty-four percent of students go on to attend the colleges from which they took their dual-enrollment classes, the CCRC study found. Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. Photo: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report.

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