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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

As teachers look for supplemental material to send home, they can share this Roadmap with parents via school portals, email, social media platforms, and texting. Bridging The Digital Divide. Across the country, several school districts are diligently working to try and bridge the digital divide as best they can.

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Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning

The Hechinger Report

New organizations like Devices for Students , a coalition of educators, tech employees, nonprofits and local businesses working to close the digital divide in the Bay Area, have sprung up alongside additional programs from established groups, like the new initiative, DigitalBridgeK-12 , from EducationSuperHighway.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

And during tumultuous times, the need for information, access to literacy, and digital access have become even greater. . For schools that closed and moved to online learning due to the coronavirus, digital access became a necessity overnight. Families can pick up a Chromebook and hot spot from the library.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

The number has fluctuated as cases rise across the country, but throughout this fall pandemic semester, between 40% and 60% of students have been enrolled in districts that offer only remote learning, according to a tracker maintained by the company Burbio. In short, online learning is the reality for a majority of students this fall.

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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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