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As school leaders work to implement digitallearning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “
Digitallearning not only plays a crucial role in preparing today’s students for the jobs of tomorrow, it also has an important role in providing equity and access to education, especially in smaller and remote school districts. Broadband’s Big Picture. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Host.
We’ve been using distance learning tools for years. James Tiggeman DigitalLearning Coordinator, Irving Independent School District. Every Verizon Innovative Learning School is assigned a full-time instructional technology coach to support teachers with effectively integrating technology into learning.
When we started thinking about how to support schools working to close the DigitalLearning Gap , we knew we wanted school leaders to feel just as confident and prepared as athletes ready for a race. Read this : “Words Matter: Let’s Talk about Learning, not Technology”. Read this : “Making ProfessionalLearning Count”.
Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Without home access to broadband Internet, students don’t have a chance at an equitable education and have virtually no chance to compete for the best jobs and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty that is pervasive in the Washington inner city.
About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer.
Future Ready Schools ® helps district leaders plan and implement personalized, research-based digitallearning strategies so all students can achieve their full potential. Award winning principal, and now Senior Fellow Eric Sheninger , helps to lead much of the digital work. Organization: EveryoneOn. URL: www.everyoneon.org.
SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digitallearning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. Join the Community.
But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digitallearning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet.
At that time, the critical topics that bubbled to the top were broadband access, […]. It is difficult to believe that it has been 13 years since SETDA’s 2008 journey in developing and publishing the Class of 2020: Action Plan for Education. This project included a Student Bill of Rights and a series of white papers (below).
These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments.
About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
At the classroom level, modeling and encouraging innovation extend those digital equity conversations through reflection and reevaluation of best practices. ProfessionalLearning. When we think about professionallearning in this new era of education, it is not a linear process. Overcoming Barriers.
Essential Conditions: Support the essential conditions necessary for the successful acquisition and implementation of digital instructional materials for successful digitallearning including Leadership, Equity of Access, Accessibility for All Students, Interoperability Considerations and Student Data & Privacy.
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