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Bring Powerful Maker Learning Experiences to Learners

Digital Promise

The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning. This blog post is the beginning of a series sharing our Maker Learning team’s experience designing this professional learning opportunity. Explore project guide examples for making at home.

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The New National Education Technology Plan: What’s in it for Me?

Tom Murray

The webinar conversation included the purpose, key areas and themes, practical examples of districts leading the way, and advice on how school leaders can best take advantage of the nationwide guidance provided in the NETP.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

According to the Brookings Institution there is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning. There are essential conditions for digital learning like state leadership, equity of access, accessibility for all students, interoperability considerations, and student data and privacy.

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2024 National Education Technology Plan targets the digital divide

eSchool News

Key points: A federal outline for education technology intends to close access gaps How to work for equity of access in classrooms How schools can help students overcome the digital divide For more news on digital access, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership page The latest iteration of the U.S.

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Why #techquity

Educator Innovator

Aguilar’s quote reminds me that our equity goals should rise out of our long, tangible experience with inequity. Our experiences with equity in education are too fleeting and too scarce for us to marshall large-scale, long-standing examples. Instead, we can identify a problem we hope to solve in order to pursue equity.

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

One of the major new commitments from the Office of Educational Technology for Future Ready moving into 2016 will be a set of professional learning resources to help district superintendents and their principals and teachers most effectively transition to digital learning. “United in purpose and mission, we can do anything.”.

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Future Ready update adds new resources and PD for leaders

eSchool News

One of the major new commitments from the Office of Educational Technology for Future Ready moving into 2016 will be a set of professional learning resources to help district superintendents and their principals and teachers most effectively transition to digital learning. “United in purpose and mission, we can do anything.”.