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TCEA 2011 Legislative Update Advocacy Panel

EdTechSandyK

Notes from TCEA 2011 Panel. Vision includes not replacing books based on bindings wearing out, but purchasing content (EX: Shakespeare) and keeping it. digital content tcea tcea 2011 Texas Texas legislature Texas State Board of Education' The speakers words flowed fast and I caputred/paraphrased them as accurately as I could.

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OPINION: We need more problem solvers and critical thinkers for an increasingly complex world

The Hechinger Report

Following full-scale implementation of a proficiency-based system in 2011, postsecondary enrollment increased to 71 percent by 2018, up from an average rate of 59 percent over the 10 years prior to the district’s shift to personalized, competency-based learning. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

Students have fewer barriers to learning when they can use their tablets or laptops not only to find homework instructions, read e-books, and share important information with their families, but to create and work on independent projects, research topics that interest them, and connect with subject experts.

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Letters for Libraries: Advocacy & Action!

The Daring Librarian

Letters for Libraries: It''s Not Just About Books. The FY 2011 budget absorbs this grant program, along with a variety of others, into Effective Teaching and Learning for a Complete Education. Many of the libraries lack computers completely, or have outdated, poor quality equipment, and books are outdated.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

2011) Evolving the Virtual School Library, Part 1: Deconstructing My Own Interface. For more inspiration, check out these posts: We Are Teachers: Teachers are Creating Virtual Bitmoji Classrooms Bitmoji Classroom Tutorials (Jenny Murphy) How to Create a Virtual Bitmoji Scene in Google Slides or PowerPoints (Shana Ramin). Valenza, J.K.

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"Libraries as Community Anchors" - a Library 2.0 Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He was founding chairman of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition, founded in 2009, as a DC-based advocacy organization promoting government policies and programs to assure gigabit fiber to libraries and other community anchor institutions(CAI’s). She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico in 2011.

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Announcing October 21st Mini-Conference: "Libraries as Community Anchors"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He was founding chairman of the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition, founded in 2009, as a DC-based advocacy organization promoting government policies and programs to assure gigabit fiber to libraries and other community anchor institutions(CAI’s).