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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. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post. Credit: AP Photo/Kantele Franko.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Crossing the digital divide safely and trustingly: How ecologies of learning scaffold the journey. Distance learning and computer-mediated communication: Interactive, quasi-interactive or monologue? Organization Science, 6 (4), 350-372. Collins, A., & Duguid, P.

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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, You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told. Um, they do.)

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