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At ISTE Live Conference, Pandemic Lessons and New Challenges

Edsurge

As a district in a small, rural community, they suffered from the kind of broadband access issues that were spotlighted by the pandemic. Districts planned out how to deploy their relief funding in different ways, but its absence will likely present a nationwide obstacle. Quite frankly, I’m embarrassed,” Caposey said.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

During the edWebinar “ Technology in Rural Schools: Leading with Why,” the presenters discussed how they overcame challenges and helped the community understand the value of tech in schools. But in order to take advantage of edtech, they first need broadband access. About the Presenters. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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4 Ways Edtech Entrepreneurs Can Earn Trust and Unlock New Opportunities With Education Customers

Edsurge

The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities to better engage students and employees remotely. By 2015, technology had become an integral facet of learning , with devices ubiquitously present in students' hands.

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Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education

Bryan Alexander

Screenshots of students and faculty in their Hollywood Square boxes are the emerging icons of the new post-secondary order. Those that do might struggle with limitations of data caps or competing with folks thrust together in a lockdown and each hungry for broadband. Zoom University is a nickname I’ve seen pretty widely.

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Digital Transformation and Innovation in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

The four rural school district superintendents featured in the presentation reflected on the challenges and opportunities that have led to digital transformations and innovations in their districts. These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Challenges.

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How technology can amplify the effects of good teaching

Education Superhighway

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

A number of the speakers actually had wildfires raging nearby as they spoke, while the combined impact of the pandemic and related recession were also presenting urgent challenges to the well-being of local students and educators, as well as to parents and other community members. About the Presenters. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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