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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. Authors, industry leaders, and other schools can connect together on collaborative projects. Our students play Kahoot and Quizizz often for formative assessment.

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‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism

Edsurge

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. There’s not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. I work with industry partners to work with those students during their class period on real world projects.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. The AI LAB is designed to allow students to work in different stations such as: Humanoid Robotics, Industry 4.0,

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

Assessment tools and data analytics play a major role in education today, enabling educators to gauge students’ understanding and use data to determine what interventions students need to best learn. Introducing robotics and coding into the curriculum helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. ” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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