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I am following a Twitter-er-er-er named Lyn Hilt (@lynhilt). She is a former K-6 principal who now works as an instructional technology integrator for her district. She has over 16k followers on Twitter and she posts fairly regularly. As her job title suggests, she posts often about technology and its uses in the classroom, but she also branches out and talks about general education as well. Many of her posts involve retweeting various articles relating to education.

One cause that she has retweeted and is now supporting is #internet4schools. This is a movement about getting better internet access to our schools. They make the case that schools have the same internet access as a everyday home. If 200+ people tried to connect to your wifi all at once there would be problems, which is the case in many schools. I know from experience observing in Atlantic City when they take out the chromebooks, that the internet goes incredibly slow for the students. This causes frustration, and they do not get as excited to use the chromebooks because of it. In a few weeks the FCC will be voting on whether to expand broadband services to all schools.  So this hashtag trend is trying to force the FCC's hand and vote yes on the issue.