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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

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According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Innovative Approaches. Howard, Ph.D.

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Looking Past COVID: Science Education Post Pandemic

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All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet. In 2007, Dr. Pellegrino was elected to lifetime membership in the National Academy of Education. New Meridian is a nonprofit assessment company on a mission to support quality education for all students by fostering deeper learning.

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What a School District Designed for Computational Thinking Looks Like

MindShift

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. Computing devices and broadband Internet are abundant both inside and outside of school. SOUTH FAYETTE, PA.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor. Nor is he the only one on a digital crusade.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.