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K–12's Digital Transformation Is Giving Libraries a Modern Makeover

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MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how libraries can use makerspaces to teach STEM! It’s a coffeehouse feel, warm and inviting,” Superintendent Shawn Bishop told EdTech for a previous story. Libraries are an ideal spot for these STEM spaces , where students tinker, code, problem-solve and build. .

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Bringing Personalized Learning Into Rural Schools

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In rural districts, children and youth face profound obstacles—geographic isolation and long bus rides to school, frustratingly slow internet connections, limited course options, and low college-going rates. Specifically, only one-third of rural students matriculate in college compared to nearly half of urban students.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

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Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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Which Stories Do the Nations' Education Technology Reporters Want You To Follow?

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From Apple, Google and Microsoft battling to take over the classroom, to random acts in both K-12 and higher education compromising the private information of millions of vulnerable students, 2017 has been no short of edtech news. Recently, you wrote a piece about STEM education. Increasingly, that means broadband.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2022. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” Via Techcrunch : “ URB-E ’s launching a scooter sharing network at college campuses and hotels.”