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3 Levels of Connectivity K–12 Schools Should Consider

EdTech Magazine

Technology has become an integral part of day-to-day classroom activities, used for everything from improving personalized learning initiatives to cutting down on unwanted behavior. Tools like interactive smartboards are helping teachers engage their students, enticing students to be more actively involved in their education. “By

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “My

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls.

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OPINION: Online homework tools trade ‘busy work’ for feedback to help end inequities in schools

The Hechinger Report

One area where this can happen now, if schools take the right steps, is with online homework tools. Many online homework tools already exist, and they allow students to practice what they learn in school and get immediate and very focused feedback on their work. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

By enabling progress through a mastery-based system, we would help students build confidence and challenge them in the most personalized way. In 2015, a major report from the research nonprofit RAND found that personalized learning works, confirming many of our hopes. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Bringing Tech to the Tundra: Educators Are Bridging the Technology Gap in Alaska

Edsurge

After conducting a survey in 2015, district leaders found that while a surprising number of students have access to broadband, the biggest obstacle to technological access rural students face is the lack of devices. This [technology] is a tool to amplify the best practices that have been proven over decades, not to replace them.

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Some families don’t want to go back to in-person school. Here’s how one S.C. district is dealing with this demand

The Hechinger Report

survey conducted in June found 26 percent of districts said they would run a virtual school this year, compared with just 3 percent pre-pandemic. Yet it’s unclear how many students will remain in virtual learning when the pandemic subsides — or whether they should. Heather Schwartz, co-author of Rand surveys on virtual learning.

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