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Digital Divide 2.0: a few facts and figures

Neo LMS

Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Now, however, access to technology is becoming a rights issue.

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Nonprofit News Literacy Project Welcomes Former Educator as CEO, With Plans to Expand

Edsurge

Alan Miller, founder and outgoing CEO of the News Literacy Project In 2008, when Miller started the News Literacy Project following a visit to his daughter’s sixth grade class, he thought news literacy would be an important skill for students and educators in the age of burgeoning social media and smartphones.

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School districts are going into debt to keep up with technology

The Hechinger Report

We’re doing a disservice if we’re not teaching the next generation how to use technology. Using long-term debt to pay for technology that may be obsolete in a couple of years, he says, is “like taking out a mortgage to buy groceries.” In 2008, the San Diego Unified School District won voter approval for $2.1

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

During the “ National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET) Virtual Post-Inauguration Awards and Policy Panel ,” the presenters discussed the intersection of technology and education and what’s needed to create sustainable, equitable access to a 21st century education. Vrain Valley School District (CO).

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

British Journal of Educational Technology, 30(3), 201-215. British Journal of Educational Technology, 28, 199-217. The emerging importance of knowledge for development: Implications for technology policy and innovation. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 58, 181-202. Vingerhoets, J., & Moonen, J. Colquitt, J.,

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16 Great NonProfits Working to Support EdTech in Schools

Tom Murray

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Girls Who Code. URL: girlswhocode.com. URL: www.inacol.org. URL: makered.org.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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