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What is Digital Accessibility? (And Why It’s Crucial at Schools)

ViewSonic Education

Digital accessibility is about ensuring that all users can perceive, use, and operate web content, software, mobile apps, and other forms of digital media. For example, screen reading software can be utilized to read the content of a website out loud, greatly simplifying browsing for those with visual impairments.

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How We Built Our School Makerspace

Fractus Learning

In schools, Makerspaces have increased in popularity, housing a variety of materials from low-tech arts and crafts to high-tech software and electronics for students to experiment with and build their own designs. Furthermore, I am elated to know there will be amazing projects, collaborative learning, and fun happening here.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to. School districts will take proactive steps to ensure student data is as secure as possible.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

How do we begin to structure PD that brings the real learning experiences to the online and blended world? This might include deeper learning, PBL, STEM, 4C’s, collaborative learning, visual thinking, meta-cognition, student ownership, Bloom’s upper levels, Makers, and student production as part of the learning experience.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Most educators and students are not technology professionals and prefer classroom solutions that are simple to use and easily work with the various programs, software and other hardware which educators have grown accustomed to. School districts will take proactive steps to ensure student data is as secure as possible.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 30 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: July 26, 2017 These 3 practices revolutionized Penn Manor's school culture | Opensource.com → Free and open source software is the catalyst for Penn Manor School District's award-winning student learning programs. Knorr of Common Sense Media.

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