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Going to a Tech Conference? Make Sure to Focus on What Matters.

Edsurge

Educators often go to professional development events, including technology conferences for a variety of reasons. Before the start of a conference, most conference goers look through the program offerings and make decisions about which sessions to attend based on limited information, such as title and speaker. That’s a problem.

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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 learning — broadband internet beyond school walls.

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

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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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Meet the 83-Year-Old App Developer Who Says Edtech Should Better Support Seniors

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Now at age 83, Wakamiya beams with excitement when she recounts her journey, which has been featured in news outlets and even at Apple’s developer conference last year. Last year, she developed and published an app to the Apple’s app store, making her one of the oldest app developers in the world.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The fifth annual Global Education Conference is just a few weeks away, and we want to be sure that you have an opportunity to contribute to this year''s conference as a presenter. Global Education Conference Keynotes. See the Conference Schedule and mark your calendars for presentations by this great group of presenters.

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Where Diversity, Inclusion and Education Meet: A Conversation With Black Girls Code Founder, Kimberly Bryant

Edsurge

Exposure may be one factor: A Google-sponsored Gallup report ( PDF ) that found that female students are less aware of online and local opportunities to learn computer science. But many of them may go home or go to a school where there’s no broadband access. Source: Quartz ( See full image ). and one in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

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. Schools and teachers/coaches cannot wait for months and years to do their part to close the homework gap.