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

The Hechinger Report

Families are also aided by community groups like the Boston Public Library, which is lending Chromebooks and hot spot home kits to those who need them. BPS distributed 55,000 Chromebooks and 6,000 hot spots to students last year and paid for 2,000 Comcast internet vouchers.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work. Yet we also see academic deans and provosts showing more interest in digital learning than their faculty. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. post-2001) web.

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Rangatiratanga: How Tapping Into New Zealand’s Indigenous Concepts Sparked New Educational Gains

Edsurge

They will mihi (welcome) you formally in Te Reo (Maori, New Zealand’s first language) and proceed to inform and charm you over 20 minutes via an interactive presentation about their competency in digital learning. weekly, for three years via micro finance to lease a Chromebook for their child. Their message is crystal clear.