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The Power of Video

A Principal's Reflections

The program incorporates multimedia activities and digital resources, which allow students to engage in active learning. educational technology IWitness New Milford High School video' This educational tool includes over 1,200 video testimonies of Holocaust and genocide survivors.

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

The Hechinger Report

Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

. “At Fulton County Schools, we know that there is a huge opportunity to support our schools as they move towards increased personalized learning in the classroom – and one way to do that is to ensure that they are utilizing the most appropriate digital resources in their classrooms to support student learning.

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Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops

The Hechinger Report

He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. Initially, Hickman said, this move caused an uproar in the community. “One

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OPINION: Want to improve our public schools? Create an impressive principal pipeline

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic also made it impossible to ignore the inequities faced by Black and Latino students — such as limited access to digital resources, rigorous coursework and skilled educators.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

While disadvantaged students are catching up in terms of access to digital resources, their access to cultural capital like paper books at home has diminished,” the OECD report noted. As one gap closes, another one opens.

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