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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

While all of these schools have been rushing to block ChatGPT , many don’t realize that generative AI tools are making their way into Google Workspaces and Microsoft 365. (If Some questions to ask So, while universities and schools may block ChatGPT, will they remove Office 365 and Google Docs from their suite of tools provided to students?

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

McKneely was a teacher at Edna Karr High School in New Orleans when the 2005 hurricane devastated the city and closed his school for months. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. But more work needs to be done to shrink the digital divide.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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, Google Reader. Um, they do.) The TED Talk.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. DeVos herself sat on the Board of Directors of the Acton Institute from 1995 to 2005, an organization that recently blogged about repealing child labor laws. Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company. In March, the FCC approved a $9.25