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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Elsewhere, teachers hold daily virtual office hours to check on the academic and emotional well-being of students they can no longer meet face to face. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. The Richmond (Va.)

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

edWeb.net

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Dr. Wright serves on the CoSN Superintendent Advisory Panel.

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How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it?

The Hechinger Report

Mosi Zuberi stands in the hallway of the DeFremery Recreation Center after an Oakland REACH meeting. When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. ” Another of her students has a single mother who works cleaning hotel rooms; the girl goes along and often joins the class from her mother’s smartphone. “You can’t livestream and teach in person at the same time.”

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Inside Higher Ed reports that there’s “confusion over distance education rules”: “Colleges seek guidance about looming federal requirement for online colleges to tell students whether academic programs meet licensing requirements in their home states.” Memos from HR. ” More via Education Dive.