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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity. Commit to Systemic Planning – Before You Purchase.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

Even the school system, D.C. Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. information and access for families? So, we’ve had to look at how we come up with systems that will allow teachers to manage and lock kids down into applications. and only Isolated good examples?

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School Boards: 7 Steps to Supporting Digital Learning

Education Superhighway

The infrastructure must facilitate students having ubiquitous access to broadband so that they are learning skills for tomorrow but not hindered by with dial-up speeds from the past. High quality, high-speed technology, and infrastructure systems are essential to advance digital learning in a school district. Learn more.

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School Boards: 7 Steps to Supporting Digital Learning

Education Superhighway

The infrastructure must facilitate students having ubiquitous access to broadband so that they are learning skills for tomorrow but not hindered by with dial-up speeds from the past. High quality, high-speed technology, and infrastructure systems are essential to advance digital learning in a school district. Learn more.

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Looking Back on Three Years of the ConnectED Initiative: Did It Deliver?

Edsurge

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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Top 5 IT and technology trends for 2016

eSchool News

Krueger, CEO at CoSN – the Consortium for School Networking , said the fact that the modernized E-rate hones in on broadband and more robust networks is a net positive for K-12 IT departments and their CTOs. Broadband equity. Broadband isn’t a luxury anymore,” she says.

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9 Steps for Choosing a Device

Tom Murray

Districts that are working to purchase devices must not do so simply because the district across the highway just implemented a particular type of device within its system. Quite often, very few, if any, school leaders have a comprehensive understanding of what resources are in place system-wide.