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EdWeek has "reprinted"a story about the efforts/ struggles in Massachusetts to address the "digital divide." Whereas some schools are moving fast-forward with efforts to provide devices to each student, leaders in other cities are concerned about equitable access.

In my own school in rural Vermont, we are concerned with how we get devices in front of each student also. Increasingly, I am convinced educators have a responsibility to reflect the emerging technology reality: many people have far better devices than we can provide them. By leveraging the capacity in students' pocket, we can use school resources to provide similar devices for those disadvantaged students and we can begin to make progress using technology to access, manipulate, create, and share information.