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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

Noah Dougherty, a senior design principal at the education consulting firm Education Elements, wrote in a blog post last week that “the biggest shift virtual learning requires is flexibility and a recognition that the controlled structure of a school is not replicable online.” PearDeck, Google and GoGuardian are among them.

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How Mastery Design Collaborative Helps Schools Redesign their Models to Personalize Learning

Edsurge

Prior to launching the nonprofit organization, both co-founders worked together at Education Elements , consulting with districts around designing and implementing blended learning models. For the pilot phase, this tracking happened in a Google Doc.

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Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

Uncover solutions for educators and students with a Google for Education event. You can also attend the Education Elements Summit , which brings together a diverse community of school leaders, researchers, designers, and more. You can also discuss classroom use and benefits with the developers of new digital tools.

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School Improvement: Strategies That Can Make It Happen

edWeb.net

To ensure the plans remain as “living and breathing” documents (to be updated as school context changes), the district uploads them to Google Docs, where schools can monitor the status of their action plans biweekly. CSI (comprehensive support and improvement) schools submit their plans through a comprehensive planning portal.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” WeWork, an eight-year-old company that has raised almost $7 billion in funding, has committed to pay some $18 billion in rent. And some related humor from McSweeney’s : “Quick Facts About the Silicon Valley Microschool That’s Disrupting Education.”). ” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. Via The Hechinger Report : “How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education.”