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APRIL 9, 2020

In an episode of our Distance Learning with Common Sense video series , Arcelia Gonzalez, regional family engagement liaison at Oakland Unified School District in California, offers helpful guidance on how to identify communication gaps and reach students with limited tech access. Are your students connected?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Take the perennially-popular “50 Best Apps” or “How to Make a Google Form” sessions that crop up every year. Some sessions keep an electronic back channel or Twitter feed going (effective in larger rooms) to allow for participation, while other sessions allow for an extended opportunity to ask questions with a discussion framework.

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

The purpose is to highlight libraries and how important it is for people to continue to build their literacy skills especially when it comes to changing technologies and access to more information than ever before. But more importantly, librarians teach students how to discover and discern credible information for themselves.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Cotton has committed his own community to making sure its students learn how to write effectively; here too technology plays a role. Jared Cotton Twitter: @drjcotton Blog Give students journals, and a chance to fill them Content, Cotton acknowledges, is the fuel for the information economy. And useful feedback is crucial.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

You can reach her on Twitter at @melissaged. They are building individual and collective knowledge and skills of how to expand our implementation of personalized learning throughout the district. His Twitter presence, which includes #VPSSuccess updates, ensures news about the district is not limited to internal memos.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The next DLD isn’t until next year, but thanks to social media it’s easy to look back at all the amazing ways kids engaged with digital learning at this year’s event. ( #DLDay even trended on Twitter!). Now, teachers are the place where kids go to learn how to use information,” Schmuhl said.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Future Ready movement grew out of the Connect Ed initiative launched by President Obama in 2013 with several goals: to connect 99% of students in schools to broadband, and to address the need for more professional learning and leadership to ensure the effective use of technology. Follow her on Twitter @mluhtala. About Mark Ray.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We're having what may be one of the most important conversations about learning in the history of the world, and understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important. Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? hours a day.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. And we’ve got WritingCity. “I’ve spoken to his mom. .”

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 21, 2016

It suggests that the vast majority of students have access to broadband capabilities. The goal of Obama’s ConnectED initiative is to equip every school in the country with high-speed broadband by 2018 at speeds greater than 100 Mbps. That leaves us with at least five more years of classrooms with insufficient broadband.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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Nik Peachey

JULY 16, 2008

Video twitter - using the feed feature you could create a kind of video Twitter, with your students video micro-blogging about learning English, their day at school, or any topic they find interesting. This is almost certainly a tool that will be more useful to broadband users.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. If you think the cops infiltrated a protest you organized and sifted through your Twitter feed, do you have a right to know about that?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. If you think the cops infiltrated a protest you organized and sifted through your Twitter feed, do you have a right to know about that?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Learn more about our MiniCon events and how to sign up for these fun presentation opportunities here. Curating the Best Content for Learning , Spending on education technology is now in the tens of billions dollars as schools push for broadband, computer labs, and 1-to-1 tablets. Follow #RSCON5 for updates. But what about content?

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. You can follow Eileen on Twitter @EileenBelastock.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Understanding when, where, and how learning takes place has never been more important. hours a day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. For many years, educators like myself have turned to the education community on Twitter and other social media platforms to network, find inspiration and share fresh ideas for how to spark active learning in our classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

You can also follow us on Twitter for weekly updates, conference schedules and activities. Thursday, June 12th at 1:45pm in Atherton, CA Common Sense Media: Discover and Use Great Ed Tech for Learning , How do you discover and use great ed tech tools for learning? Follow us on Twitter #liveclass20. Connected Librarian Day!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

surgeon general, took to Twitter to draw the connection between controlling the virus and school reopenings: “3 keys to open schools: low community prevalence of virus (critical), safety precautions.and resources for implementation.” Biden transition team officials are actively making this point.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tagged on: September 13, 2017 Foothill High School's Twitter account hacked, obscene images posted | KTNV. Tagged on: September 10, 2017 Is Learning 'How To Code' Still Worth It For Millennials? Twitter not your thing? I think that you don’t have to be in technology for coding to be very important."

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tagged on: September 13, 2017 Foothill High School's Twitter account hacked, obscene images posted | KTNV. Tagged on: September 10, 2017 Is Learning 'How To Code' Still Worth It For Millennials? Twitter not your thing? I think that you don’t have to be in technology for coding to be very important."

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). Via The New York Times : “ Jeff Bezos Wants Ideas for Philanthropy , So He Asked Twitter.” ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.” Top Hat has raised $7.5

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