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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

The district invested in mobile hotspot vehicles that are deployed daily across eight areas of town. To grow this learning culture beyond their district, Maine Township High School District 207 made all of their e-learning resources available to the public. Department of Education in 2011. And the exemplars continue.

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Communicating and Connecting With Social Media (An Excerpt)

A Principal's Reflections

The book is entitled Communicating & Connecting With Social Media: Essentials for Principals and will be available from Solution Tree on May 19, 2011 Using Twitter to Build Your School’s Brand The good news is that open-communication practices in a social media world don’t have to be intimidating. See figure 1.1 for a visual.)

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? “There will be more momentum for mobile devices in classrooms with an eye toward affordable alternatives to traditional 1:1 rollouts.” However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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The power of ed-tech in the developing world

Neo LMS

I have tried to focus instead on actual case studies demonstrating the success of e-learning models in these environments. What researchers have found is that mobile technology is widespread and heavily utilized, although the majority of mobiles are still non-smart phones with basic features. Community Health Volunteer Training.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Not only did postings for bachelor’s level jobs fall the most, but entry-level jobs also dropped farthest and fastest. With two-thirds of U.S. economy $1.2

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

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011. FY 2011 $100,000,000 (President Obama’s request: $0).

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Education funnels and webs of learning

Learning with 'e's

It's obvious to any teacher or parent that children develop at different rates, and all have different talents and interests. If those students could jump into a time machine and be transported a century or so forward to 2011, what would they be amazed by? Mobile phones and credit cards? The picture above was taken in 1909.

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