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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

For instance, Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization that equips parents to support learning at home, worked with partner organizations to update The Learning Hero Roadmap , a free K-8 interactive guide with videos and tools to help parents support grade-level math and reading as well as social-emotional development.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

eSchool News

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. Consider this: 1 in 4 U.S. Consider this: 1 in 4 U.S. The result?

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Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]

Neo LMS

More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. BYOD deepens the digital divide. These students just don’t need another social status symbol tied to their persona.

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Advancing Equity in Education Through Wifi

MIND Research Institute

The so-called digital divide widens as soon as their students walk out the door. (To What if we told you that a tire shop in Las Vegas was standing at the front lines of the battle to close the digital divide? Clark County School District mobile device initiatives. Of course, share it on social media, as well.

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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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