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

Education Superhighway

Merritt has spent the past five years steadily investing in a 1:1 student-to-device program and building out the technological infrastructure to support it. Five years ago, when District Superintendent Jeff Daugherty first took on his role, he saw that the district was lagging behind in its technology use.

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The Greatest Challenge Facing School Leaders in a Digital World

Edsurge

As founding director of CASTLE (the Center for the Advanced Study of Tech­nology Leadership in Education), the nation’s only university center dedicated to the technology needs of school leaders, I have had the good fortune to work with administrators all over the world on digital leadership issues.

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Disintermediating IT: The Secret Sauce To Small School EdTech Success

There is no box

The high school district was fortunate enough to recognize that to make forward progress with technology, they had to make a change. The main reason: the shift towards authentic technology integration into everyday instruction is happening right now. How do we get reliable bandwidth at a decent rate? Google Apps for Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via E&E News : “ Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. ” Via The New York Times : “ Edcamps : The ‘Unconferences,’ Where Teachers Teach Themselves.” National) Education Politics.