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7 Ways to Close the Access Gap

Tom Murray

Community Partnerships is one of the gears of the Future Ready Framework and the 7th Key of Learning Transformed , indicates that “Community collaboration and engagement must be woven into the fabric of a school’s culture.” Last year, I wrote the post, “ Can Companies Like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap?

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The Features And Benefits Of The XP-Pen Drawing Tablet In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

Much of this has to do with fluctuating learning priorities where critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a future-ready, tech-savvy student body are given precedence. The Tools Of Mobile Learning. One such company is XP-Pen and their series of tablets. The XP-Pen Star G640 is Chromebook compatible.

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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Tools like Future Ready’s Interactive Planning Dashboard can allow administrators to identify an implementation plan that will allow their district to meet the needs of every type of learner. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

As edtech leaders and stakeholders work to eliminate the homework gap, solutions such as mobile hotspots, low-cost broadband, private LTE networks and even Wifi on buses have the potential to ensure that students have 24/7 access to their education. She is also a national advisor for the Future Ready Instructional Coaches Strand.

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ISTE 2016: Educational Equity, Lifelong Learning, and a Simpler Approach to Edtech

eSpark

Tools like Future Ready’s Interactive Planning Dashboard can allow administrators to identify an implementation plan that will allow their district to meet the needs of every type of learner. Throughout ISTE 2016, we had a chance to share a booth with JAMF Software, a company that’s reimagined mobile device management for educators.

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How peer video coaching is completely changing how our teachers teach

eSchool News

Department of Education to be “Future Ready,” the integration of video coaching is an extension of our pledge to empower educators through personalized learning. The company just launched a new iOS app, which makes it possible to have a video uploaded before the class period is finished. A picture IS worth 1,000 words.

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Memory Machines: Learning, Knowing, and Technological Change

Hack Education

Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. And the Internet? The Internet was not invented in 1991.