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How courses like coding and design lead to tech literacy

eSchool News

Technology is ubiquitous in the lives of today’s students. As technology users, students access technology for entertainment, communication, and learning. Encouraging technology creators means engaging students in project-based technology courses that introduce them to coding, design, gaming, and animation.

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Teaching coding and design can lead to tech literacy

eSchool News

Technology is ubiquitous in the lives of today’s students. As technology users, students access technology for entertainment, communication, and learning. Encouraging technology creators means engaging students in project-based technology courses that introduce them to coding, design, gaming, and animation.

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Edsurge

It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. In Arizona, the House Education Committee introduced HB2421 , a bill allowing for schools to create distance learning courses.

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#DLNchat: How Will Net Neutrality Changes Affect Higher Education?

Edsurge

Protections for charging more for internet use in rural areas have been removed (and the FCC is currently attempting to recategorize internet access from a utility to a service which could compound the issue). But Cali Morrison reminded the chat, it’s not just rural students whose access we should be concerned about.

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Hotspots, YouTube, WiFi, Oh My! How Renton Prioritizes Infrastructure Over Devices

Edsurge

But too many have also had a chilling moment when they realized their bandwidth infrastructure couldn’t begin to deliver on their technology goals. Everyone is saying ‘we are in a digital world,’ so how do we support every student, especially those that might not have WiFi access at home?” Hotspots and YouTube and WiFi, Oh My!

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

Of course, money is hugely important for K-12 education and a key benefit to adopting OER. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway. I also depart from Clark on the issue of the importance of cost savings to OER in the U.S. K-12 context.

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How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

Gaelyn: I think your description of “iterating” is accurate, because we are making small changes all the time, and really always have been any time there was a change in technology. It is important to remember who we serve to make sure we’re meeting their needs, not doing what we’ve always done because it is comfortable. Why the library?

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