Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. A web version of the app that will work on Chromebooks will be available soon, in addition to a Spanish-language release.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube. Brown : When I think about digital equity, I think about ensuring that everyone has equal access and opportunity. We have seen some districts actually say, “Come check out a Chromebook. But access is maybe the first part of the digital divide.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 205

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

On a recent summer day, librarian Lyn Hunter posted a video to YouTube on how to make a weather thermometer using a straw, rubbing alcohol and a bottle. The craft videos are part of the Chattanooga Public Libraries’ summer program for kids, called Make. Families can pick up a Chromebook and hot spot from the library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. He suggested, for example, that teachers could email students a video link to a news report of a controversial issue, or a historical documentary, along with a few key questions and a post-viewing writing prompt. Inequity looms large.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

We would like for them to watch a video; we would like for them to do a drill-and-kill online. Now, our advanced students–when we give them technology, we ask them to create with it–create a video, or a slide deck, or make a movie. The other side of that is, let’s say the district allowed them to take the Chromebooks home.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 121

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Watch FOX19’s coverage of the Cincinnati rollout event: Jewel, a student at Sayler Park, served as a new correspondent for Verizon Innovative Learning in this video: Both schools in Glendale Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, rolled out earlier this month. After helping at Challenger Middle School’s event on Sept. 4, Melvin E.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. Tagged on: March 16, 2017 Bettendorf schools switch technology, puts used iPads up for sale | Quad-City Times → The Bettendorf district has changed to using Chromebooks. That's a lot of computers.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There are backlogs of items such as Chromebooks. “That rural Internet divide is real. And the digital divide is about more than equipment.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 30, 2018

He is passionate about helping educators transform teaching and learning through technology integration and closing the digital divide through equitable access to technology for all students. They wanted me to share with other educators how I was using Chromebooks and G Suite in Education in my high school English classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For the last few years, the local government — with schools, the telecommunications company EPB of Chattanooga, and nonprofits — has run “HCS EdConnect,” a program through which schools give Chromebooks, tablets and free training on the skills needed to use smart technology and the modern internet system.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 92

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Laptops and Chromebooks are not new, but they have a strong spot in many K-12 classrooms today. Online and digital learning tools let students explore a wealth of resources, including videos, articles, and interactive content that supplements traditional classroom materials.

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Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 103

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside. I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The platform provides teachers with on-demand guidance from a computerized coach as they self-reflect and comment on videos of their teaching. We are currently in the process of handing out 8,000 Chromebooks and hotspots for students to use at home. –Patty Hagan, Teaching and Learning Coach, St.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside. I think a lot about the future of technology and its potential impacts on students and the K-12 education system (intended and unintended).

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Viral School Videos. Schools recorded elaborate lip-sync videos.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.” ” Raybaby also “builds a photo/video collage of the baby for posterity.” ” That’s Gail Heriot.

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