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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

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Apple provided “help” in the form of iPads and other Apple hardware to 114 low-income schools in 29 states. The future of ConnectED: Exactly how much play should and does the government have in bringing edtech to K-12? And to provide more digital content beyond OERs, the government launched the Open eBooks app back in February 2016.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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They are now in their fifth year of 1:1 with iPads for grades K-12, and have designed learning environments to create student engagement. This broadcast was hosted by edWeb.net , SETDA , and Future Ready Schools , and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bart Rocco. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.