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The Enduring Power of Print for Learning in a Digital World

Digital Promise

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Today’s students see themselves as digital natives , the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Students first rated their medium preferences.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

Previous articles in this series have covered infrastructure , leadership , and mindset. This article discusses sculpting the staffing mix of an organization. Blended learning, and its subset flipped learning, are trends that are not just growing but becoming the norm. The E arly adopters move with the change.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. We can extend the learning day. The FCC did not return emails and phone calls requesting an interview for this article. We can flip the classroom.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. I think right now we’re probably content doing one a year.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” Um, they do.) The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The story contains some machinations at the Department of Education in which the White Hous e tried to fire a Jeb Bush-supporting staffer. I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. ” asks Chester E.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “New report calls out NCAA for saying that black athletes graduate at higher rates than other black students, when that’s not true at the top conferences,” says Inside Higher Ed. National) Education Politics. Memos from HR.