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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls.

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More schools are online than ever before – but it’s far from perfect

The Hechinger Report

Is technology necessary to personalize learning? But even the best online program is not a panacea, of course. And the Technology for Education Consortium, announced earlier this year at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas , has vowed to help schools price-shop for hardware like computers and tablets.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Getting schooled in social media

The Hechinger Report

We have a lot of parents who work two and three jobs, so it’s hard for them to visit our school for open houses, conferences and things like that. Most posts collect a handful of “likes,” shares, and comments, while a few videos have gone viral – such as the Fall Creek tradition of driving tractors to school for homecoming. “We

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships

The Hechinger Report

The coronavirus has in many ways become an unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships, forcing a readjustment of expectations without daily check-ins and in-person interaction, without tissues for tears, high-fives for a job well done or praise in front of classmates.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency introduced its newest anchor to attendees at the World Internet Conference in the country’s eastern Zhejiang Province last week. We know from the rise in free massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, that a scholar on a screen can and already has replaced the sage on the stage.

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