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Merritt Public Schools: How a Rural Oklahoma District Developed its Digital Learning Program

Education Superhighway

As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms. By the time two years had passed and the school had 800 students, Merritt had fully implemented a 1:1 student-to-device policy. The Path to a Successful Upgrade.

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Creating Future Ready Schools and Classrooms

Tom Murray

Personalized Professional Learning. In future ready schools, technology and digital learning expand access to high-quality, ongoing, job-embedded opportunities for professional learning for teachers, administrators, and other education professionals. Such environments enable anytime, anywhere learning.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

It happened back in 2008 when new policies and funding sources were put forth with the intent to grow school districts’ abilities to supplement and meet the diverse needs of students—specifically in the face of foreign language teacher and Advanced Placement honors-level course shortages. Wyoming Switchboard Network homepage.

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App Overkill: Going Beyond the Buzz Words #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

App Overkill: Going Beyond the Buzz Words SXSWedu 2017 Panel Jena Draper, CEO, CachOn Inc Carl Hooker, Director of Innovation & Digital Learning, Eanes ISD P.H. Please see specifics on my re-use policy in the right-hand column of my blog before re-posting/re-using any of my blog content. And what you want it to do.

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Google Challenges for Teachers! (FREE Template by Pam Hubler)

Shake Up Learning

Pam also loves to create resources to share with educators through her website www.spedtechgeek.com , Twitter, as community manager of the Shake Up Learning Facebook Group and other social media platforms. She has presented at FETC, the EdTechTeam Low Country Summit, and EdCamps. See: Copyright Policy.

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A National Push for More ‘Active Use’ of Technology in Learning

Educator Innovator

In its 2016 National Education Technology Plan, the Department of Education emphasizes model approaches to digital learning. Several years ago, Heart of Texas Writing Project teacher Katie McKay was working with bilingual fourth graders in Texas to make illustrated comics about the history of discrimination in the United States.

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A Framework for Blended PD (Part 2) – SULS072

Shake Up Learning

There are always teachers who are eager to learn more and dive deeper into the content. The Edcamp model is a great way to offer teachers more ways to connect and learn together with very little planning. If you aren’t familiar with the Edcamp model, visit this page to learn more. See: Copyright Policy.

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