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Efficacy in Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Applying this concept to digital learning can go a long way to solidifying the use of technology as an established practice, not just a frill or add-on. Once an overall vision for digital learning is firmly in place you can begin to work on the structures and supports to ensure success. This brings me back to efficacy.

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Transition to Digital Learning with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Williams fears that the nature of her school’s digital learning is insufficient for ELs and that it has widened the gaps for students with disabilities. Moreover, her district’s data shows that Black families in the district do not have consistent internet access to engage in digital learning. Resource overload.

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How To Sustain Powerful Digital Learning for the Future

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools has implemented and advocated for equitable access to technologies to close the digital learning gap since its inception in 2011. This individualized approach has the potential to inform the traditional classroom setting and improve learning for all students.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

They must be prepared to continually learn new skills throughout their lives for a future we cannot predict. And, they must be informed citizens in our democracy. And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways.

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How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning

EdTech Magazine

How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. To be honest, I hate the term blended learning. Let me explain why: In today’s world of education, blended learning gets thrown around for any type of new education involving technology. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 04/11/2019 - 15:35.

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How to Center Equity in Undergraduate Digital Learning

Digital Promise

The COVID-19 pandemic caused postsecondary institutions to abruptly transition many of their spring 2020 courses to digital learning. course leads, department chairs, and other higher education leaders) to respond by creating more equitable digital learning opportunities. Creating an Equity-Centered Course.

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U.S. 8th grade scores decline on critical computer and information literacy skills

eSchool News

Key points: Digital literacy is a key skill–but it remains a challenge for U.S. While digital literacy is rapidly becoming as fundamental to a well-rounded education as numeracy and basic literacy, many eighth-graders in the U.S. Basic digital literacy is a prerequisite to communicating, finding employment, and socializing.

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