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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways. However, even as technology has evolved to more effectively support learning, our education system faces another great divide: the Digital Learning Gap.

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Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

At DCPS, he has been able to take the helm and drive forward an ambitious plan, whose aim is to “empower a community of learners by leveraging technology to develop critical thinkers who curate, collaborate, create, and communicate, in order to broaden, accelerate, and share their understanding of a digital and globally competitive world.?”.

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Fun with GIS 198: Two ConnectED Years

esri

Dateline Washington DC, The White House, May 27, 2014: President Obama welcomes Esri to the ConnectED Initiative , a partnership with private industry to help all US K12 students engage in digital learning. At the 2014 launch, focus was on the potential “ billion dollar commitment.”

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Taking a NAP

Learning with 'e's

Since 2014 I have served as chair of the steering committee of the Network of Academics and Professionals, an elected body that works autonomously alongside the European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN). It’s now time to step down, as my 3 year term has been completed.

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Nearly 60% of Teens Use Their Own Mobile Devices in School for Learning

The Innovative Educator

Not to be forgotten, there are still students who report no regular access to technology in schools: 13 percent of high school students and 21 percent of middle school students. Speak Up identified students participating in after school computer programming (coding) clubs, school sponsored technology support teams and STEM Academies.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.