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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Education Superhighway

MAY 30, 2019

She’s a big advocate for expanding broadband access and digital equity, and she has become a key strategic planner for school Internet in Virginia. This diverse group of stakeholders gave us feedback on network infrastructure and broadband to VA school divisions. The biggest barrier was getting all schools on fiber.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

When I got connected on social media, my lens grew and I became aware of more organizations, as well as some of their supporting tools and resources. CoSN also holds a national conference each year. ICLE also holds the Model Schools Conference each June which is attended by over 5,000 school leaders each June.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

What led you to become passionate about expanding broadband access, and what motivates you most about your role as Director of Instructional Policy and State E-rate Coordinator at DESE? And Compare and Connect K-12 shone a light on what districts paid for broadband, giving them leverage to negotiate better rates.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

We're excited to announce the keynote panel for our second Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Open Data," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 5th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Local, state and federal governments are releasing data - the public's data - in new ways.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

We're excited to announce our second Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Open Data," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 5th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). This web conference will explore how librarians are using open data, teaching others about it, and even creating it.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

We've added information on the accepted sessions for the second Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Open Data," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 5th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). We already have 2300 registrations, but we're unlimited in size, so we hope you will join us!

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Brechner is not ignorant of the fact that broadband provision is a necessity for such projects to succeed, indeed he even declared that 'broadband is a human right'. I met Doug when we were both invited to keynote a conference in Barcelona this year. Douglas Thomas.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 17, 2017

During parent-teacher conferences, I would give family members names of websites/apps they could go on at home or at the library to help their kids with vocabulary and sight words. Mark Hurty: Without a broadband connection to the internet, none of my students’ resources would have been available.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 17, 2017

During parent-teacher conferences, I would give family members names of websites/apps they could go on at home or at the library to help their kids with vocabulary and sight words. Mark Hurty: Without a broadband connection to the internet, none of my students’ resources would have been available.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Through edtech conferences such as ISTE , coaching programs such as Digital Promise and DigCit , teachers and coaches can be trained to teach in innovative ways that include critical components in digital learning and digital inquiry. Schools and teachers/coaches cannot wait for months and years to do their part to close the homework gap.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Dr. Seuss The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" Look for our upcoming email on Thursday which will detail the fun and free events coming up at the ISTE conference. We''re currently working on the schedule, so look for updates soon on the conference site ! Future of Museums Keynotes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! MORE INFORMATION ( Conference Website ) As libraries shape their futures – and adapt to the future needs of their communities – what are the near- and long-term trends that point to our brightest opportunities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Register now for our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th, and we'll send you the information on how to either attend the live sessions or watch the recordings afterwards. Sponsored with ALA’s Center for the Future of Libraries. See you online! Steve Hargadon Library 2.0 public libraries.

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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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Nik Peachey

JULY 16, 2008

You can embed videos or your call messages into blogs websites and a whole range of social media sites including Facebook and Blogger. They could also interview an expert in groups from home with a conference call. This is almost certainly a tool that will be more useful to broadband users.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

hours on social media. Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. Today, 95 percent of teenagers have access to a smartphone, and the average teen is now spending more than 7 hours per day on their screens , including over 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Joe Sanfelippo, superintendent of Fall Creek school district in Wisconsin, leads a social media campaign for his schools using the hashtag #gocrickets. Parents can follow the Twitter feed, and say, ‘Don’t you have that paper due soon in social studies class?’ ” Terrill said. Photo: Cindy Kolpien.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). He is one of TechSoup's primary presenters at conferences in the U.S. Please join them and us! YouTube channel.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Tomorrow is our second Library 2.020 mini-conference! This mini-conference will focus on innovation and innovative thinking in rural, independent, tribal, and other small libraries--as well as the many unique challenges that they face. He is one of TechSoup's primary presenters at conferences in the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

We're excited to announce our second Library 2.020 mini-conference: " Small, Rural, and Independent Libraries ," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, June 17th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). He is one of TechSoup's primary presenters at conferences in the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Our second Library 2.020 mini-conference is just one week away! This mini-conference will focus on innovation and innovative thinking in rural, independent, tribal, and other small libraries--as well as the many unique challenges that they face. He is one of TechSoup's primary presenters at conferences in the U.S.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

At the San Francisco Public Library, family engagement specialist Christina Mitra has invested heavily in developing deep lines of digital communication with families through a targeted newsletter and their social media channels. At the American Library Association’s virtual conference in June, executive director Tracie D.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Pat Farenga: Trusting Every Child's Unique Learning Path THE AERO CONFERENCE Yong Zhao Keynote at the 2016 AERO Conference Peter Gray: Self Directed Education. Gina Riley: Intrinsic Motivation and Self Determination in Learning Blake Boles: Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School? What Is It, How Does It Work? More to come.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on social media and asking him to kill her teacher.” From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” ” For those not up on corporate conference speak, Dreamforce is Salesforce’s big annual event.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Starting in fall 2020, the library hosted IT specialists and teachers from the school in one of the library’s conference rooms. Similarly to Garrett County in Maryland , the geography of this rural district makes broadband access inaccessible for many families.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

Via Motherboard : “The FCC ’s New Broadband Map Paints an Irresponsibly Inaccurate Picture of American Broadband.” From the press release : “ Campus Technology Conference to Merge with UBTech.” ” The Pew Research Center is out with its latest report on “ Social Media Use in 2018.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

There’s lots more from Betsy DeVos’s talk at SXSWedu in the conferences section below. Meanwhile on Campus… The New York Times on “How the Parkland Students Got So Good at Social Media ” – a really important corrective, I’d argue, to that “digital native” silliness.

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