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Letter from our new Director, ShapingEDU Stephanie Pierotti

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Broadband Access for Connecting Work & Learning: One Year Later

The whole world seemed to be shutting down in May 2020.
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Student Voices: Support is key

This anonymous story is part of a series of informal interviews with online students in various stages of their…
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Building Communities of Thought: Exploring Synchronous Tools

At yesterday's ShapingEDU LIVE: Building Communities of Thought  – Synchronous Tools
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Submit your ideas: Identifying broadband opportunities in the American Jobs Plan

At yesterday's Connecting for Work and Learning project team call, w
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The Power of the Moment: Building Communities of Thought

Time is our only truly non-fungible asset. Deficits of money can be made up but deficits of time are impossible to…
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Broadband + Digital Equity Conversations with Mark Goldstein and Steve Peters

On May 11, 2021, the project team for ShapingEDU's "Connecting for Work

Humans are More Complex Than Light: Iterating a Tool for Understanding Tools

The Teaching Toolset Project will reframe how we view the tools we use as teachers.
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American Jobs Plan Delphi Activity, with the ShapingEDU Broadband Project

Universal broadband access now looks to be within reach in the very near future, by virtue of its inclusion in the…

Conversation with Lyle Ishida, Chief of the Consumer Affairs and Outreach Division, Federal Communications Commission

This week, the Connecting for Work and Learning p
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Virtual Text-Based Interview Template

ShapingEDU Storyteller in Residence Paul Signorelli regularly uses Google Docs to conduct virtual text-based interviews…
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Resources from ShapingEDU LIVE: Elevating Student Voice & Choice

This week, a few dozen educators, students and changemakers gathered to consider ideas and strategies for elevating…
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You're invited to the ShapingEDU 2021 Unconference: Reshaping wicked problems!

Reshape wicked problems at our "remote" haunted inn this July!
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Student Voices: Time + Internet

by Anita Roselle
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Lost in the Maze: Motivating the Student Voice

I have always dreamed of having critical, curious, motivated students trying to understand the world around them.
We have a unique opportunity to use the disruption of Remote Teaching  to do a deep analysis of our  Systems and the Tools that support them in order to grow new ways of approaching learning.

The Systems-Tool Paradox - Part II - Breaking the Closed Loop at Both Ends

Part I - The
Tools drive Practice. Systems evolve from Practice. Systems standardize Practice. Practice drives the demand for Tools to support Systemic paradigms.

The System-Tool Paradox - Part I - The Perils of Letting Systems and Tools Dictate Practice

All too often we let our systems dictate the tools that we have to facilitate learning in our students.
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Developing + Telling the Stories of Broadband Access

Broadband access is a painfully timely challenge for anyone trying to work and learn in online environments; yesterday'…
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Student Voices: Samantha, NYC

by Anita Roselle
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Telling Broadband-Access Stories with Jessica Rosenworcel

Stories are at the heart of the developing relationship between

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