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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. Digital divide: facts and figures. Income vs. Access: The Digital Divide in the US.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education database that tracks a large group of students who started kindergarten in 2010. Other studies that don’t rely on students’ self-reported feelings have shown that young people who are heavy technology users sleep less and gain more weight , a sign that time on devices is displacing outdoor exercise.

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What Are the Implications of Distance Learning?

Education Superhighway

Department of Education’s most recent study of the topic, the percentage of public school districts whose high school students took distance learning courses rose from 30 percent in 2002 to 53 percent in 2010. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported that 1.99 Advanced Placement courses are still a major part of that preparedness.

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Library 2.0

Learning with 'e's

indicate the trends away from traditional repository approaches to a more distributed range of digital services for staff and students, with particular emphasis on the tools students are already familiar with - Web 2.0 In a future blogpost, I will report back on the librarians' perspective on these and other related questions.

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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. By early April, Washington County reported two deaths from the coronavirus. The digital divide. If this is what I feel, what are they feeling?” Unemployment rate doubles.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

This can further be linked to depth of knowledge being greater as it is internalized (Yaklief, 2010), as exhibit 2 illustrates. The greater the level of internalization of knowledge, the greater perceived depth of knowledge (Allee, 1999; Herling, 2000; Yaklief, 2010).

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Should rich families be allowed to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

The Hechinger Report

The school’s PTSA had zero assets or income as of 2018, according to a local public radio report. “I Still, since at least 2010, a small group of Seattle parents have tried to convince friends and neighbors to practice what many here preach about equity and voluntarily divert some of their wealth to high-poverty schools. García said.