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		<title>Tech Equity:  It’s not just for kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most districts, we want our teachers to have access to powerful instructional technology.  And, like most districts, technology purchases for us have been made with a mix of limited district funds, some grants, and site categorical funds.  This has led to a situation where there are haves and have nots in terms of access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Issues for 1:1 Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Lieux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking to move to 1:1?  Learn from the experience of this Arkansas district. Educators who promote the use of technology to improve learning almost always have visions of students engaged in exciting projects and solving challenging problems by collaborating and researching via the Internet. We in the Fort Smith (Arkansas) Public Schools have definitely had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to End the Tech Plan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Blackney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dread. It is time again to rewrite our district technology plan. Contemplating this Sisyphean task got me thinking about where the requirement for a technology use plan came from and how can we improve it? I did an Internet search for school technology plans to see what I could find. The oldest plan that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishers Get It With Online Resources—Why Don&#8217;t Educators?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 04:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Jarvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that publishers have such as Pearson, Holt, and Harcourt have worked to provide these resources show that they get where kids are these days. ]]></description>
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		<title>Education and the National Broadband Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:09:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us are aware that work is underway at the Department of Education on a new National Educational Technology Plan, but you may not know that education figures prominently in another federal technology initiative, the National Broadband Plan being developing at the Federal Communications Commission. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act directs the FCC [...]]]></description>
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