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Makerspace Starter Kit Updated

The Daring Librarian

Download the HUGE Poster size for free from my Fickr Gallery. Download the High Rez or poster version of this for your class or Makerspace. We've discovered that the mix of the digital divide, possible turbulent home lives, and general teenage forgetfulness can result in a loss of power. Or make your own! It's all good!

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

The Hechinger Report

Since 2010, five rural hospitals have closed in Mississippi alone, and almost half of the state’s rural hospitals are at risk of closing. The digital divide. Some days, the device’s download speed seemed to function at a crawl. But she acknowledged of life lately, “It’s slow. It has been slow.”. Her cellphone had broken.

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Distraction 2 Reaction: BYOT (BYOD) Success!

EdTechSandyK

1/3 of all mobile users owned a mart phone in 2010. We used to hear about the digital divide. Puppet Pals - another puppet app QR Codes - Students scan them to download assignments and presentations or go to websites. billion people worldwide will have mobile phones by 2013. 73% of children have books in their home.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010.

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