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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap. The Digital Learning Gap is caused by differences in how Americans in and out of school access and use technology to improve learning opportunity and outcomes.

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Pillars of Digital Leadership Series: Student Engagement and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

This post is the fifth in a series that will outline the foundational elements of my new book, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. It provides leaders with the foundational elements to successfully implement digital learning across the curriculum.

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Digital Learning Isn’t Just for Students: How One Teacher Unlocked the Potential of Technology in the Classroom

Education Superhighway

This Digital Learning Day, I reflect on my experiences as a new teacher, discovering the potential of digital learning in the classroom. This was in 2014 when digital learning was still a growing trend and the daily challenges ranged from frozen screens and lost passwords to content filtering, and more.

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Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging

Digital Promise

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Students need an authentic purpose for learning 1.

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How to Determine if Student Engagement is Leading to Learning

MindShift

Schools and educators would be wise to take cues from the real world and make concerted efforts to integrate technology with the purpose to increase student engagement. Engagement, after all, is the impetus for learning in my opinion. The allure of engagement can be blinding as well as misleading.

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work—Building a Successful Blended Learning Program

Edsurge

The collaborative identified blended learning as one vehicle to implement competency based education and personalize student learning. The pilot was designed to create and then evaluate the most effective, scalable, and sustainable method of incorporating blended learning. Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.

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Inquiry Hub Secondary School – Confluence and Influence

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Before we even got started, a team of us designed two Board Authority Authorized (BAA) courses for the school: Foundations of Inquiry and Digital Learning (digital literacy). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course (2012). Applications of Digital Learning 10 – BAA Course 2018.

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