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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

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Digital learning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Broadband’s Big Picture. This article was modified and published by EdScoop and eSchool News.

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Read This: Newsela Lands $50 Million From Spotify Investor

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On Wednesday, the firm announced it invested $50 million in a Series C round for Newsela , which offers an instructional content platform containing news and nonfiction articles at various reading levels. A key to Newsela’s growth has been the growing broadband internet access now available to many K-12 schools, Sanchez adds.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

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Through edtech conferences such as ISTE , coaching programs such as Digital Promise and DigCit , teachers and coaches can be trained to teach in innovative ways that include critical components in digital learning and digital inquiry. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. Overcoming Barriers.

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Get to the root of the edtech issues with three key questions

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This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Leadership and Innovation is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that serves as an online forum for collaboration on leadership and innovation in schools to meet the needs of the next generation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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Technology is key to educating the next generation

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The Biden administration recently allocated more than $650 million in federal grants and loans to build more broadband infrastructure in rural U.S. That means doubling down on efforts to expand access to 5G and high-speed internet. communities.

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Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

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Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. He holds an M.Ed