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How to work for equity of access in classrooms

eSchool News

Here are five key strategies to ensure equity of access: 1. Digital inclusion and accessibility: Embrace digital tools while ensuring they are accessible to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background or ability. Ensuring equity of access in the K-12 classroom requires a comprehensive and multifaceted approach.

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Maximizing Instructional Time With EdTech

edWeb.net

The more educators feel confident working with the technology, the more likely all studentsnot just some will have access to it and the same chances to develop tech skills. Therefore, to ensure equity of access, schools must budget for teachers to be properly trained. Its no surprise that so much instructional time is lost.

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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access.

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Bring Powerful Maker Learning Experiences to Learners

Digital Promise

In what ways can we be more intentional about addressing equity of access to our programs? We required applicants to design a project guide without implementing a process to provide guidance on how to do this. In what ways are we including and excluding important stakeholders in the framing of our program opportunities?

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Leading is learning

eSchool News

Mission accomplished. The skill set was learned and the only thing to do was to put it into practice.

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The New National Education Technology Plan: What’s in it for Me?

Tom Murray

The plan emphasizes the need for school leaders to develop a shared vision for how technology can support learning and teaching and how to secure appropriate resources to sustain technology initiatives. C ollaborative leadership is third key theme of the NETP; a research-based foundation in developing Future Ready Schools.

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Districts put DEI into action

eSchool News

We have to take us older-school education people and retrain our way of thinking about how to deliver [instruction]. And that provides that equity and inclusion for students where they are, but were still delivering the content they need in order to succeed in society. Those programs do not prepare teachers to actively use technology.