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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

This panel brings together the leaders of the Verizon Innovative Learning School (VILS) program to discuss how they have successfully leveraged the 1:1 model in conjunction with student data plans for low-income middle schools. Empowering 50,000 Students by Deploying 1-1 iPads. Student Tech Teams Supporting 1-1 iPad Deployments.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. Where LAUSD's iPads were used at all, they were used for whole-classroom instruction, just like whiteboards of old.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ McGraw-Hill Education Picks New CEO From World of Data Analytics.” New hires at the Department of Education include Mark Schneider, director of the Institute of Education Sciences , and James Woodworth, commissioner of NCES. (And Examity has acquired BVirtual.