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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. ” “Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe,” according to an investor in Edsurge. Tech CEOs visited the White House to talk about “modernizing” a.k.a.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Edsurge : “ Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers.” ” Via Apple Insider : “Jamf’s ‘innovation pod’ aims to offer iPad-based education to students in Haiti.” Edsurge on the business of OER. ” asks Julie Halpert in The Atlantic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Education Week : “ FCC Revokes Decision Allowing Companies to Provide Low-Income Families With Subsidized Broadband.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “One Campus’s iPad Revolution Results in Education Evolution.” “Does Open Pedagogy require OER ?” ” LOL.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Unveils Free Online Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Edtech Products.” Via eCampus News : “ Barnes & Noble Education announces advanced OER courseware.” ” IBM released a Watson-powered education app for iPad. .” Via The Atlantic : “ Jill Biden ’s Push to Make Community College Free.”