Monthly Archives: January 2017

FCC Releases Digital Inclusion Plan: “Strategies and Recommendations for Promoting Digital Inclusion”

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Stan Freeda

With this plan, several of the following goals laid out in the 2016 Lifeline Modernization Order are or can be realized. First, this plan marks another step in the Commission’s efforts to better understand non-price barriers to digital inclusion and … Continue reading →

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Teachers Need a Growth Mindset Too

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Stan Freeda

Pushing our students to adopt a growth mindset is an easy call. Adopting one ourselves is harder. For a teacher, it’s pretty easy to focus on improving students—that’s our job, right? So when I learned about Carol Dweck’s theory of … Continue reading →

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HUD issues new rules to narrow digital divide

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Stan Freeda

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued two new rules that will help narrow the digital divide. The first new rule requires developers to install broadband infrastructure during construction and rehabilitation of HUD-supported housing and the second requires state … Continue reading →

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Clarifying the Overall Pedagogical Approach

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Stan Freeda

Posted on iNACOL.org on December 29, 2016 in New Learning Models, Practice by Chris Sturgis.  This is the eighth article in the series Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders.  Links to the other articles in this series … Continue reading →

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