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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It’s a transformation that’s been largely driven by the unprecedented pace of technological advancement. Technological Integration The 21st-century classroom is unimaginable without the integration of technology, and soon AI (artificial intelligence). ” Both critical thinking skills (e,g.,

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

Ask a Tech Teacher

For the past decade, schools have invested millions of dollars in technology. But there’s another side to the story of print vs. digital , one that is at the core of why 2015 e-book sales dropped in the United States and the UK. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. More on changes in education.

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Increasing digital equity in rural areas

Education Superhighway

They created a community survey to obtain the necessary financial information to receive an E-rate discount and released a Form 470 and RFP requesting increased bandwidth. Next, they shared their vision for educational technology with their local school board. But equitable access has an emotional component, too.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

Just as a sculptor can take a rough block of granite and turn it into a piece of art, the leader of a 21st century organization must take a 20th century organization and sculpt it into its modern equivalent — an organization prepared to leverage technology to enhance education. The E arly adopters move with the change.

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In DC, Teachers Run the Jail. It’s Turning Inmates Into Students.

Edsurge

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. Central Detention Facility, slipping past security checkpoints and into cells where incarcerated residents watch Khan Academy videos and craft their resumes. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. ” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3

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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 the AP : “The sponsor of one of the nation’s largest online charter schools says it’s cutting that tie, which could halt the Ohio e-school’s operations for its roughly 12,000 students within days.”