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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.

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The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One

MindShift

Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. “Young people don’t have the attention or the executive function skills to be able to sit and learn online for hours every day on their own.”

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This is how your infrastructure should look before your next tech rollout

eSchool News

The IT department is important to ensure that the technical aspects are appropriate, but the LMS is a tool to enhance learning, not IT. Reliable and suitable devices (laptop computers) for staff. If we want staff to embrace technology to enhance learning and teaching, we need to provide them with devices that empower them.

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