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Edtech Needs More Infrastructure, Educator Support in 2017

Edsurge

In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. education technology agenda. Much work remains to be done to realize the full potential of education technology. only to discover that there wasn’t adequate broadband to execute the lesson.

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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

100 kbps per student may have been sufficient bandwidth when there were only 520 students and few devices, but as the student population and technology use grew, so did the district’s need for more robust broadband. With this approach, the excitement about the newly digitized curriculum was contagious amongst teachers.