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Join Digital Promise in Shaping the 2020 National Education Technology Plan!

Digital Promise

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology to develop and share the 2020 National Educational Technology Plan. The National Education Technology Plan (NETP) is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. Department of Education.

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Power Up Your Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

respectively by 2020. The USDOE’s Office of Educational Technology places emphasis on students and educators having access to a robust and comprehensive infrastructure when and where they need it for learning. The site eMarketer found that 41% of students ages 0-11 and 84% ages 12-17 owned a smartphone in 2016.

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PROOF POINTS: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning

The Hechinger Report

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit in March 2020, the research unit inside the U.S. Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work.

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COVID-19 and the Value of Edtech Coaches

Digital Promise

Edtech coaches also supported families by assisting with the use of technology, providing information around appropriate home environments for learning, and serving as a liaison between families and the school/district. COVID-19 has forced a lot of changes in our formal education. Technology use is now widely considered indispensable.

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EdTech Promised to Change How Students Learn, But the Real Revolution Lies Within Us

ED Surge

To understand how technology can change the way students learn and work together, you only have to go back to March 2020. Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021.

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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PROOF POINTS: Most college kids are taking at least one class online, even long after campuses reopened

The Hechinger Report

It spiked in the fall of 2020, when three quarters of all students were taking classes online. It’s not 100 percent, as it might have been in the spring of 2020, because some states and campuses had reopened by the fall. The green line of online course taking was growing steadily before the pandemic.

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