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Executive Summary | U.S. Department of Education - 1 views

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shared by Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10 - Cached

1.1 States should continue to revise, create, and implement standards and learning objectives using technology for all content areas that reflect 21st-century expertise and the power of technology to improve learning.
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
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3.2 Leverage social networking technologies and platforms to create communities of practice that provide career-long personal learning opportunities for educators within and across schools, preservice preparation and in-service education institutions, and professional organizations.
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
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4.1 Ensure students and educators have broadband access to the Internet and adequate wireless connectivity both in and out of school
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
  Both in school and at home.
  
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4.2 Ensure that every student and educator has at least one Internet access device and appropriate software and resources for research, communication, multimedia content creation, and collaboration for use in and out of school
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
  1:1 just got national endorsement.
  
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5.2 Rethink basic assumptions in our education system that inhibit leveraging technology to improve learning, starting with our current practice of organizing student and educator learning around seat time instead of the demonstration of competencies
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
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Convening education stakeholders, in person and online, to share content, insights, and expertise and to collaborate on key elements of this plan. Ideas and best practices that emerge from these convenings will be shared throughout our education system
- Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10
  
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miles turner on 16 Nov 10

iI found this interesting. Wisconsin could benefit from some of this thinking.

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Bradford Saron on 16 Nov 10

Great job, Miles!

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Deb Gurke on 17 Nov 10

As you know Brad, I am all over this. One thing I have been thinking about: in the past some reformers have tried to bring a more experiential feel to public education. I am thinking of John Dewey, progressive reformers in Waukegan, IL and Gary, IN in the 1930s, open classrooms in the 1960s and earl 1970s. Each time these reforms failed to take hold and scale up. I think it would be smart to look at these efforts and think about what's different today, what's the same, and how do we avoid the same fate.

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National Education Technology Plan 2010 - 1 views

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National Education Technology Plan

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Mary Fitzwater on 24 Nov 10

Check it out if you haven't...The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.

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Crossing the Digital Divide: Bridges and Barriers to Digital Inclusion | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Bradford Saron on 08 Nov 11 - No Cached

95 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 use the Internet? And all of this is happening while we are in the midst of an explosive rise in mobile technology.
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Access to richer graphics and data, as well as superior tools, is still limited on many affordable mobiles. At the same time, many schools continue to demonize cell phone use during school, which may be an outdated policy. Not only are there an increasing number of educational applications for mobiles but, as Blake-Plock suggests, prohibiting phones now means "disconnecting the kid from what's actually happening in most of our lives."
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In 2009, the FCC began developing the National Broadband Plan, a work-in-progress that aims to increase broadband access across the country by providing additional infrastructure, incentives for companies to create low-cost access, educational programs, and much more.
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In some circles, the term digital divide is itself defunct. Instead, using digital inclusion is not only a way to reframe the discourse in a more positive light but also reflective of what access, adoption, and literacy in the digital world really mean today
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Today, physical access to computers and the Internet is only the first of three significant layers to digital equality, according to both Deloney and Blake-Plock. Here's how they break it down (and how we can change the game):
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National initiatives like the National Broadband Plan, as well as grants for hardware and software in schools and libraries, can help address the essential-tools gap that persists in some rural and low-income areas.
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This refers to literacy, not only with hardware and software but also with the vast global conversation that the Internet enables. He notes that there is a gap between those who are "getting connected into broader networks, building their capacity and their social capital, creating the new wave of learning" and those who are, for a slew of complex reasons, not doing so.
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Bradford Saron on 08 Nov 11

To what extent is leadership needed?

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