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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. . Across the nation, libraries are stepping up in a time of crisis. Everyone in the school turns to you,” when dealing with computers and setting up online learning, said Four Points Middle School librarian April Stone.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, They recorded school resource officers. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The folks at Getting Smart promote CS and SEL resources on Facebook for Education. SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.” And sure, why not. Khan Academy is launching a new series on US history and civics. ” JFC. Thanks in advance.