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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Top Tips for Teaching Online From Educators Doing It Now

edWeb.net

In regard to the online content she provides, Olivia focuses on making it accessible through the use of pictures, emojis, and screen shots. From an instructional and assessment perspective, Olivia recommends considering the relative importance of teaching critical skills, developing mastery, and providing grades.

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

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Access State-Reviewed Instructional Materials with SETDA’s Dashboard

edWeb.net

A pilot program of the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) has made 12 states’ reviews of secondary math and language arts materials available, with a wide range of K-12 resources from these and other states to follow.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all. Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania. Next in the Festival Five family series came Night Time!

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, will likely use whatever weapons exist in the federal policy arsenal to expand access to charter schools and private schools, shifting public funds to the private and quasi-private sector. Is there a place for “trust, but verify” in education policy?