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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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Hillary Clinton Releases Tech Agenda Highlighting Student Loan Debt and STEM

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Her boldest claim: That her administration would close the digital divide by 2020 with 100 percent of American families having the "option" of quality broadband. Clinton also made diversity in the tech workforce one of the goals of her higher education and job training strategy.

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Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With Their Own Money

Edsurge

It is also not too surprising, given that for much of this decade businesses and governments have laid the infrastructure needed to support online learning, through enabling better broadband internet access and providing cheap computing devices to schools. A different ‘digital divide’ has emerged.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Dr. Gonzales’s district is reaching out to local non-profits for help with the shift to 100% online learning, which cannot be done quickly or cheaply, especially at a time when the district is receiving less state funding. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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