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Tips for Running an Accessible & Affordable Virtual Conference

The Innovative Educator

As a result of the CoronaVirus Pandemic, we were faced with the choice of canceling our large yearly conference, or figuring out how to do a virtual conference. We opted for a virtual conference and decided to use Microsoft Teams and YouTube Live for our platform. Participants didn’t need a conference to access workshops.

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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. They consume social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. By connecting through social media your educators and students can see how the work they do matters.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

Edsurge

-Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones.

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Celly Launches New Service and Android App for Building Mobile Social Networks

Educational Technology Guy

These cells could also be used at professional development and conferences for back channeling and discussions. With Celly, cell phones have the potential to bridge the gap between the home, school, and social media world.” Plus, all members choose to opt-in, or out, of each mobile social network. ? Check it out.

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10 Edtech people to watch in 2018 [INFOGRAPHIC]

Neo LMS

Both these e-learning conferences, along with her other events related to education, gather together thousands of people annually to exchange ideas and make schools across the world a better place for teaching and learning. Rafranz Davis.

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Are Schools Disproportionately Surveilling Students Who Rely on School-Owned Devices?

Edsurge

Monitoring student activity online has become a hot button issue for districts, schools and parents alike in the digital age, where information is often shared freely and copiously via email, social media and other channels.

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

In an online press conference May 27, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said that while the state has worked with companies and foundations to distribute more than a 100,000 hotspots and 21,000 computers, “there’s a gap in supply.” On the other side of the country, an estimated 1.2