The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 25, 2023

If you have public website, your data can also be used to train tools like Chat GPT and some are trying to block their sites from being training data , as well.) When AI Fails Training Data is Older I did ask Notion to summarize the top three articles in edtech with hyperlinks. So, the training data is older.

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Microsoft Learning Tools Data 493

EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Digital platforms like Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams enable students to work together seamlessly, irrespective of their physical location. These tools facilitate group projects, discussions, and peer-to-peer learning, enhancing the collective educational experience.

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EdTech Gamification Education Digital Divide 113

EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 24, 2023

Another strategy is providing alternative activities to engage students who may become sidetracked by their devices, such as hands-on activities, group work, or class discussions. Schools must take measures to safeguard student data and ensure that students use technology responsibly.

Technology 187

Technology Guidelines Digital Divide Education 187

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Addressing the digital divide requires a human-centered approach In the early days of the pandemic, schools raced to provide devices and hotspots to students, responding to concerns over a widening digital divide. We are drowning in data. We are facing a time famine. Technology is not a panacea, but it can help.

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Digital Divide Education Data Technology 159

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. Yet, even as the number of unconnected students declines, there is another group that, for years, has made virtually no headway. The phrase ‘digital divide’ frames this as binary—there is no access or there’s all access,” Katz says.

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Accessibility Digital Divide Broadband Survey 169

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide” is a follow up to a June analysis by Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense.

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Broadband Report Video EdTech 152

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

In addition, you’ll explore strategies for proactively coping with trauma, including creating student-led support groups and peer counseling programs, getting students involved with community outreach programs, and partnering with local and national organizations focused on processing trauma. See Course Syllabus. Equity and Inclusion.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 493

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering. 1560 , and proposed adding sections designed “to close the digital divide in California.” Even when there are laws meant to address the digital divide in terms of devices and WiFi, they aren’t always effective. Jennifer E.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 132

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

A significant challenge for Delta communities is the ever-growing digital divide. Spending in Mississippi’s highest-poverty districts is 55 percent below the estimated “adequate” level and 18 percent below adequate in the state’s wealthiest districts, according to the Database.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Guidelines 119

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

According to data, students benefit from direct interaction with teachers and peers, which facilitates immediate feedback, personalized support, and collaborative learning experiences. In-person learning statistics underscore the advantages of traditional classroom education over online learning.

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Classroom Online Learning Learning Outcomes 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These methods include an interrelated set of skills, such as pattern recognition, abstraction and decomposition, applied to solve complex problems using, for example, automation, data analysis or computational modeling. Related: Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

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Training Digital Divide System Analysis 124

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The future of K-12 education with AI also includes the integration of data-driven insights, helping educators identify learning trends, assess student performance, and refine teaching strategies for continuous improvement. Access to AI-driven resources may vary among schools and students, leading to a digital divide.

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Education Trends Digital Divide Assessment 52

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. What education can be delivered on cell phone hot spots… keeping limited data in mind?

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LMS Digital Divide Blended Learning Survey 217

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

According to 2017 data from EdBuild , a nonprofit focused on inequitable education funding, schools in Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District were funded to the tune of $25,068 per student, while schools in neighboring Philadelphia received just $12,044. In truth, the pandemic hasn’t revealed anything new.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Report 99

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5

Digital Divide 52

Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5

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Digital Divide Secondary Elementary Strategy 52

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 8, 2024

Teachers can customize lessons to meet individual student needs using data analytics. Online digital textbook platforms and interactive learning software like KITABOO offer a wide range of educational materials that encourage essential digital skills. This can offer flexibility for those who need extra learning opportunities.

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Blended Learning Software eBook Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups. It also appears that English learners are being particularly adversely impacted by Covid-era schooling.

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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 134

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. Further, a near-future in which we spend more time within a digital ‘metaverse’ while the non-digital ‘real-world’ becomes increasingly dystopian is a terrifying thought for many.

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Game-Based Learning Broadband Learning Company 159

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The technology that tracks digital records has spurred a cryptocurrency gold rush and an NFT explosion. It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. Some groups call themselves “learning DAOs,” organized to educate members of their communities.

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Education Groups Robotics Course 166

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Educators, youth and experts in promoting positive development should be consulted in the design and delivery of any digital technology that will be used by significant numbers of young adolescents. Second, we must use regulations to make digital spaces safe for this age group. Targeted advertising should be limited.

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Smartphone Social Media Learning Digital Divide 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

From 2012, the earliest year data is available on distance learning, to 2018, the number of institutions where the majority of students took at least some coursework online has doubled, to more than 800, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. All of those tools are already in our toolbox,” Dr. Monroe said.

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Trends Digital Divide Learning Course 85

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

“Next year, many traditional education strategies will fade away as educators help students recover from the pandemic’s impact, especially with harder-hit groups like students who learn and think differently. There is also a growing need for quality SEL data to ensure that educators are serving students’ SEL needs.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 141

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

at Rice University (Texas) might have COVID-19 , so the campus “asked a ‘small group of students and faculty’ to self-quarantine.” My readers know that the digital divide means unequal access to bandwidth, which can limit use of video and large files. A researcher (not faculty?)

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LMS Digital Divide Study Video 137

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automation of grading, attendance tracking, and data analysis facilitates efficient classroom management. While the integration of AI in K-12 education presents immense opportunities, it is essential to address concerns related to data privacy, equity, and teacher training.

Education 52

Education Adaptive Learning Personalized Learning Gamification 52

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

You know, there's a lot more to that when it comes to the biases of the data and important things like that. What About the Lack of Data Transparency with the Data Sets Used by AI? So the lack of data transparency really concerns me. You know, when you're thinking about ethics from a classroom perspective.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 432

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. For instance, the percentage of Black people between the ages of 18 and 24 who enrolled in college increased to 37 percent from 31 percent, and to 36 percent from 22 percent for Latino people in that same age group.

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Accessibility Broadband Survey Digital Divide 131

MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. Leveraging data about summer learning loss, the researchers projected how COVID-19-related school closures could impact students across the country. Digital Divides and the COVID Slide.

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Meeting Digital Divide Education STEM 61

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Education Department is asking schools and districts to take measures to protect data and reinforce IT systems, and if any schools were victimized, to contact the agency’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center for help. Windows IT Pro → For most organizations, data breaches are foreign territory.

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EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Recently, the state announced that it had achieved near universal access for both device distribution and connectivity—a significant achievement in a state where 40 percent of households in some cities lack home access, according to census data. The impetus was really to close that achievement gap and that digital divide.”

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Libraries 197

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 51

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Successful tech pilots enhance learning, build excitement around new initiatives, and subject classroom technology to rigorous, data-based testing. If you’re not ready to share funding or host events, consider starting a blog or closed Facebook group for your district’s and another district’s educators. Share a Virtual Space.

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Technology Classroom iPad EdTech 52

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

limited data collection, limited program evaluation?, ELI is a comprehensive three-year plan to close the digital divide and empower every learner through investment in technology?, When we took on the task of digitizing our curriculum, we saw two different forms of resistance,” said McClary. “We It includes $4.6

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Future Ready Digital Divide Digital Learning Broadband 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48