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The 5 Strategies States Should Pursue Now to Make the Most of Future EdTech Investments in ESSA

Doug Levin

Be sure to consider the alignment of your strategy and expectations to the broadband internet infrastructure needed to support it. Consider whether and how your state will encourage districts to form consortia to pool resources to address identified needs and priorities.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ For more information, check out how to ‘ Equip Your School for the 21st-Century with a Solid Foundation. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016.

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Why Generative AI Is More Effective at Increasing Access to Educational Opportunity than OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Last week I posted the middle section of the presentation, How Generative AI Affects Open Educational Resources , in which I described how we need to move beyond narrow thinking about how generative AI impacts our work with traditional OER and begin thinking more broadly about the power generative OER.

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Navigating the Shift to OER

edWeb.net

During a tour of updates to SETDA’s Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) , which showcases state policies in support of digital materials, Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director for SETDA, discussed new features like professional development information.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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Announcing October 21st Mini-Conference: "Libraries as Community Anchors"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Four game changers

Learning with 'e's

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'. To help achieve this vision, Mackintosh is setting up the OER University and is evangelistic in his elucidation of this concept. Conrad Wolfram.

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