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FETC 2025: Transformation, innovation, and 5 new sessions

eSchool News

Session tracks focus on topics and insights relevant to various K-12 leadership titles: district leaders, school leaders, classroom leaders, IT leaders, coach leaders, inclusion leaders, esports leaders, and library leaders. E-rate & Edtech Funding: Essential Insights for Educators: What do edtech leaders need to know?

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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

Unlike hybrid learning, the method of student-centered learning is not specified. It could involve digital media as well as offline resources like classroom makerspaces or library books. Hybrid learning, however, must include both classroom and remote learning. Why Use Blended and Hybrid Learning?

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

Doug Levin

As such, states can expect to support a great variety of approaches to educational technology in their districts under the program, from those that spend some smaller portion of funds on activities to fill in the gaps in local efforts to those that devote the maximum allowable funds to ambitious personalized learning implementations.

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A Look Back at Digital Promise’s 2015

Digital Promise

Perhaps the single most significant development in ensuring access was the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) modernization of the E-rate program. Over the past 15 years, the E-rate program has achieved the goal of connecting almost every U.S. school and library to the Internet.

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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

Hapara

Teachers may also customize digital textbooks to create a personalized learning experience. Some websites are dedicated to K-12 learning, while others feature textbooks for all learning levels or high school and college. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER). OER Commons.

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OPINION: How targeted federal action could finally chip away at the broadband racism faced by Black students

The Hechinger Report

This likely explains why a quarter of Black teens reported not being able to do their homework due to a lack of reliable internet access — nearly twice the rate of white teens. A quarter of Black teens reported not being able to do their homework for lack of reliable internet access — nearly twice the rate of white teens.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam.

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