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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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John King: ‘The Failure of National Leadership Is Being Visited Upon School Leaders’

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So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We give low-income students and students of color less access to early childhood education, less access to resources in K-12. Low-income and students of color get less access to the strongest teachers.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems. Khan Academy reports that 25 percent of users in Mexico access their content on mobile devices.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. Not yet convinced?

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Forward Failures, Future of Work and What’s (Not) the Next Big Thing in Edtech

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Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. These goals could “push the rapid adoption of access codes across the institution,” the report states.

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Network Monitoring: What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us

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In addition to the classic uses of IT, other areas of educational technology are becoming increasingly important at a rapid pace. Course materials and books are online, classes meet through web portals, and non-IT systems like building control and laboratory technology are beginning to shift to the IT department.