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This chapter aims at assisting and guiding educators, researchers, and policymakers who are interested in learning about Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digitization in education in the United States (USA). With a historical context covering the past 20 years, the chapter provides an overview of research, trends, and issues related to ICT and digitization in K-12 school settings. It presents a wide range of developments in ICT and digitization impacting the field of public education, exploring and analyzing the following four key issues: what technology integration is and what isn’t; why technology integration is important; emerging technologies in education; and funding for technology and the “digital divide.” The chapter ends describing the most recent stage on the key issues discussed and the implications for policy and practice these issues introduce.
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Duran, M. (2020). ICT and Digitization in the United States: Research, Trends, and Issues. In: Jornitz, S., Parreira do Amaral, M. (eds) The Education Systems of the Americas. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93443-3_16-1
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