The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Just two weeks away, our third Library 2.021 mini-conference, " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. The accepted conference sessions are listed just above the keynote bios and include links to full descriptions! Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

Our third Library 2.021 mini-conference: " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. Libraries are increasingly addressing challenges associated with digital equity, access, and inclusion, as well as issues of security and privacy. Please also join this Library 2.0

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

Our third Library 2.021 mini-conference: " Libraries as Community Anchors ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. We already have over 1,000 people registered for this event, and our mini-conferences almost always reache over 5,000 by the start date! The call for proposals is now open (see below).

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

Led interactive webinars to improve broadband price transparency and discuss opportunities for school districts to increase bandwidth for little to no additional cost. Met and mingled with hundreds of education leaders at the annual MassCUE conference in October.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Our third Library 2.021 mini-conference: " Libraries as Community Anchors ," was held online on Thursday, October 21st, 2021. The recordings of the mini-conference--which include the opening keynote panel, 13 presentation sessions, and the closing keynote--are now publicly available at [link]. You do need to be logged into Library 2.0

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Quite honestly, I was aware of many organizations because of their yearly national conference, a particular set of standards, or one or two dynamic resources that they had released, but in retrospect knew little of what they could provide. CoSN also holds a national conference each year. Organization: Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. In Utah, the Murray City School District had been slowly developing a broadband network for students for two years when funding from the CARES Act helped the district speed up the rollout. With JumpStart, says Ms. Millions of students still face access issues.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The fifth annual Global Education Conference is just a few weeks away, and we want to be sure that you have an opportunity to contribute to this year''s conference as a presenter. Global Education Conference Keynotes. See the Conference Schedule and mark your calendars for presentations by this great group of presenters.

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MindShift

APRIL 24, 2020

No assemblies, sports games or parent-teacher conferences. Eskelsen Garcia of the NEA says the equity issue is acute: “What we’ve been telling [political leaders] for years is the digital divide is hurting children. To have broadband, a tablet or a laptop is not to play video games. Remote learning continues.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2016

The image presented here was ironic, appearing as it did on the door to the main venue of the conference, but as several pointed out, the device in the image is a reference to a bygone age when mobile phones were primitive. Here is my summary of seven of the themes and challenges raised during the conference.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 5, 2016

At the invitation of Adobe Education , I attended the Educause Annual Conference this year and did a quick series of interviews about the education work that Adobe is doing.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

After struggling with what to do about the digital divide, and a parent survey showing that families were interested in digital camps, program coordinator Jenny Song said the library decided to move forward with digital programming to help parents out with long summer days at home.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Education Week : “ FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.” ’” – “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity on college campuses. “Higher Education, Digital Divides , and a Balkanized Internet” by Bryan Alexander.

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