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Teaching Online During COVID-19

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Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Here are some choices: Khan Academy. Moving to a virtual Classroom –from Microsoft. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. How do I make online learning personal?

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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. ” Via the BBC : “ Accenture and Microsoft plan digital IDs for millions of refugees.” Tech CEOs visited the White House to talk about “modernizing” a.k.a. ” What could possibly go wrong?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Accreditation and Certification.

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The Business of Education Technology

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The College Board also boasted about its partnership with Khan Academy, which would make SAT test prep materials freely available online. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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It’s a partnership with Microsoft. ” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” Via Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.” ” (In Cleveland.). Davis on the DML Central blog.