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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

In Mount Olive, school officials were initially doubtful the district could support virtual learning. The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We Then they hatched a last-minute plan.

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This Student Saw Teachers Lacked a Place to Share Digital Resources. So He Created One.

ED Surge

An evolution of “ awesome lists ” used by coders to share information about specific programming languages, Bir’s website is a free resource updated by teachers and students, and it’s meant to be a hack for locating quality information without the hassle of sifting through endless search results. Bir says the site has about 10,000 users.

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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. “A

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

A key theme of Future Ready Librarians, which last year published a framework to revamp the bookish role, is that districts pouring money into hardware and software need people to shepherd these tools into classrooms and to curate these burgeoning digital resources. Getting kids reading is still a huge part of what we do here.

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Want Your Teachers to See Great Teaching? Quickly Build a Teaching Video Library

Edthena

School leaders, coaches, and teachers can contribute videos on an ongoing basis, and those videos are curated easily before releasing across the district. Whatever the school-wide priority, educators across your district only need to make a few clicks to drill down to specific grade-level and subject area videos.

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OPINION: Online homework tools trade ‘busy work’ for feedback to help end inequities in schools

The Hechinger Report

As a computer scientist and a former middle-school math teacher, I believe strongly that we can marry the promise of new technology and evidence-based instructional practices to address inequities in our public school system. Youth from low-income homes often lack access to reliable technology and the internet at home.