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Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula

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Edtech spoke with Leila Nuland, managing research director for K-12 at Hanover research to discuss some of the trends surrounding computer science in K–12 and how to overcome issues of accessibility and underrepresentation in certain populations. EDTECH: What interest have you seen from educators on including computer science in curricula?

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Purchasing Devices Does Not Equate to Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Below are some lessons we learned after hitting the reset button on our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative in order to get it right that I captured in a 2015 post. William Horton says it best, "Unless you get instructional design right, technology can only increase the speed and certainty of failure."

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Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

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Edtech is no longer a one-time purchase or a luxury item—it’s integrated across every system in school districts from the central office to classrooms to school buses. Demonstrate how technology is integrated into learning every day and the impact it has on student outcomes. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Charting a New Path for Strategic Edtech Planning

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Student outcomes. In the edWebinar, “ Strategic Technology Planning: Aligning Priorities, Costs, Outcomes and Sustainability,” the presenters discussed new items that must become part of strategic plans. Additional edtech budget items: Most administrators’ budgets have detailed estimates that include direct costs (e.g.,

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

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Strategic planning for edtech is an endless journey—and not just because of constantly evolving hardware and software. Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs.

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3 Common Student Data Sharing Solutions — and How to Overcome Them

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SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! It can be frustrating when applications monitoring different outcomes are not able to communicate with each other. However, bringing this kind of system to fruition is no easy task. Unconsolidated Data Streams Cause Trouble.

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Scaling, Sustaining, and Budgeting for Education Technology Innovations

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As highlighted in the EmpowerED Superintendent Toolkit , there are three essential focus points of smart IT decision making: total cost of ownership (TCO), student outcomes and budgeting management, and the value of the investment. ClassLink is ideal for 1 to1 and BYOD initiatives. Blog post by Eileen Belastock based on this edWebinar.