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Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Recognized for Addressing Digital Divide During Pandemic

Digital Promise

When schools were forced to quickly shift to distance learning in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) team immediately sprung into action to provide professional learning and support to educators within the network—which grew to 264 middle and high schools across the country by late 2020.

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Innovation and Creativity in the Classroom with Chromebooks

EdTechTeam

You may have noticed the device of choice for many school districts and students is the Chromebook. Chromebooks are, simply put, devices that connect to the Internet with keyboards attached. However, because they connect with Chrome, they are called Chromebooks. But what about the Chromebook device itself? Even better?

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The Growing Importance of Digital Citizenship

Edsurge

All students in her district, which has approximately 11,000 students and 900 staff members, are provided with Chromebooks that they can take home. We caught everyone up to speed by providing professional learning about technology and how it is incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum. So we shifted our strategy.

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Dell debuts new collaborative software for Chromebooks

eSchool News

Dell Classroom, a new software solution available for Dell Chromebooks, helping foster student and teacher engagement. Dell announced the debut of three new, interactive display products, purpose-built for active learning, classrooms and conference rooms at ISTE 2016. Currently serving 10,500 schools, 295,000 classrooms and nearly 6.8

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. Commit to Personalized Professional Learning. When it comes to a successful digital conversion, however, professional learning is one of the key vehicles of transformation.

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New Resources Supporting the Integration of Minecraft: Education Edition into Classroom Instruction Now Available from Discovery Education

eSchool News

Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education’s K-12 platform facilitates engaging, daily instruction in any learning environment.

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6 Ways to Learn Online with Kasey Bell this Summer!

Shake Up Learning

appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Summer is a great time for professional learning! Today, I’m giving you 6 Ways to Learn Online with Kasey Bell this Summer! While I wish I could meet each one of you at a face-to-face event, I know it’s just not possible. Enroll in the Dynamic Learning Workshop.