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Tips for Making Documents Accessible for All Students
02/02/2022
Topics: Accessibility, digital equity, Inclusion
Imagine spending hours on a PowerPoint presentation for your class, adding all the pretty colors that will make it pop. You spend extra time squeezing in all the text details and editing to ensure all the…
3 Ways To Stay on the Path To Digital Equity
10/01/2021
Topics: digital equity
The pandemic has challenged all educators and pushed us further than we ever thought possible. In less than a year, schools and districts launched online programs to meet the needs of students and families.…
6 Ways the Pandemic Transformed Schooling — But Will It Last?
08/18/2021
Topics: Assessment, digital equity, Global collaboration, Personalized Learning
After nearly a year and a half of pandemic-related disruption, going back to school this year will look unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. And that’s a good thing — or at least it should be.
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A New Framework for Activating Equity and SEL in the Classroom
04/23/2021
Topics: digital equity, SEL
In my many travels to schools before the pandemic and my countless virtual interactions with educators since, I have come to realize that not all educators teach in districts where…
Oregon Teacher of the Year Brings Inclusion and Connection to Students
05/01/2021
Topics: digital equity
During a unit on African-American history, Nicole Butler-Hooton asked her second-grade students if they had ever seen anyone in real life who looks like her friend Mr. Hale, a Black teacher from Texas. The…
The Hottest Topics in Edtech in 2021
01/29/2021
Topics: Digital Citizenship, digital equity, esports, SEL, Virtual & augmented reality
For a few years now, we’ve shared the hottest edtech trends of the year based on the topics resonating with educators at the annual ISTE conference. Although the topics themselves often don’t change much from…
Teaching anti-racism
09/29/2020
Topics: anti-racism, digital equity
We’ve reached a watershed moment in racial history. What will educators choose to do with it?
When high school junior Jadyn Page first watched the video of George Floyd’s death at the hands of…
10 Resources for Teaching Anti-Racism
01/17/2022
Topics: digital equity
How do you nurture anti-racism in children? Can educators and parents teach young people to see past their unconscious bias and ingrained beliefs to truly empathize with peers of color? How can white educators…
5 Ways the Pandemic Improved Equity for Students
11/03/2021
Topics: COVID-19, digital equity, Online learning
If educators learned anything from the coronavirus pandemic, it was that digital equity is a complex and moving target. Never before was the breadth of the digital divide more apparent — and never had it been…
COVID-19 thrusts digital equity to the forefront
03/26/2020
Topics: COVID-19, digital equity, ISTE Expert Webinars, Online learning
With millions of students out of school across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, districts everywhere are scrambling to put in place remote learning programs. A big stumbling-block is guaranteeing…