Webinar: Connecting Students to the World through High-Speed Broadband and Improved Technology Oct 21 12:30-1:30

The Alliance for Excellent Education Invites You
to Attend a Webinar

Connecting Students to the World through High-Speed Broadband and Improved Technology

October 21, 2014
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
(NOTE NEW TIME)

Participants
Tom Vander Ark, Chief Executive Officer, Getting Smart
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education

Please join the Alliance for Excellent Education for a special live and in-depth discussion on the importance of connecting America’s schools and students to high-speed broadband to improve education across the nation and transition to personalized learning.

Schools are moving rapidly to embrace school models and supportive new technology that are better suited for success in today’s world. When modern technology is available it enables students to have a more individualized education and allows teachers to do their jobs more effectively. Today, learning can take place anywhere and anytime, and offers students new opportunities to succeed in the twenty-first century.

The next generation of teaching and learning requires high-speed broadband so that students in blended, competency-based learning environments can move at their own pace and in the best way for them to best succeed. Improved connectivity to the internet will help those students experience future success.

During this webinar, Tom Vander Ark of Getting Smart and Alliance President Bob Wise will explore issues related to better connecting the nation’s schools to high-speed broadband, the current debate to expand E-Rate, modernizing federal and state policy, and other important initiatives that can improve or enhance learning for every student by providing better access to technology. Panelists will also address questions submitted by viewers from across the country.

Register and submit questions for the webinar at http://all4ed.org/webinar-event/oct-21-14/ .

Additional Upcoming Alliance Webinar:

Wednesday, October 29: An Educator’s Guide to COPPA: Connecting Students to the Internet: This webinar--another in the Alliance's Project 24 leadership series--will focus on the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1998 to protect the online privacy of children. What do educators need to know about this law? How can educators and school administrators successfully navigate COPPA to ensure that students are afforded the full benefits of online and blended learning opportunities? When do school districts assume the duty of COPPA compliance?

NOTE: If you are unable to watch a webinar live, an archived version will be available at www.all4ed.org/webinars approximately one business day after the event airs.

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