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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. Is this is a necessary survival strategy for libraries (and librarians) when students increasingly carry the Internet around with them? Why the library?

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

“Why is it that when young people use technology on adult terms, they are praised as 21st century learners, but when they use technology on their OWN terms, they are castigated as deviant rule-breakers?” The students from the Hudson Valley and Aurora displayed an interest in technology, access, and fairness.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

Department of Education’s recent edtech plans] discussed active vs. passive consumption of technology. What’s fascinating, when you look at it, is students of marginalized subgroups–when we give them technology to use, we give them technology that is passive consumption. Technology is here to stay; it’s not going anywhere.

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The Human EdTech for Diversity

EdNews Daily

Technology dominates the education landscape discussion. It can bridge language-learning gaps and increase access with automation so fine that it can literally speak to a student and correct pronunciation and context, while removing any sense of embarrassment because it can be done privately anywhere. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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