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Laying the Foundation for Distance Learning Success

Digital Promise

We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman Digital Learning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Every Verizon Innovative Learning School is assigned a full-time instructional technology coach to support teachers with effectively integrating technology into learning.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Without home access to broadband Internet, students don’t have a chance at an equitable education and have virtually no chance to compete for the best jobs and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is pervasive in the Washington inner city.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer.

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Creators of Blended Learning Universe (www.blendedlearning.org), the organization provides a directory of innovative schools and a myriad of models and case studies to support district transformation. Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work. Organization: EveryoneOn.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. They showed some trepidation. A Sustainable Path Toward Equity.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

edWeb.net

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet.