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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Like many districts that strived to close the digital divide during the pandemic, Roselle Public Schools (New Jersey) took up the mantle to address student and community WiFi access across the entire borough. The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools was launched at the White House under President Barack Obama within the U.S.

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5 Ideas to Improve Rural Education in America

The CoolCatTeacher

This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. She is an NASSP Digital Principal, and was a featured panelist & Principal of 1st rural school featured @ Digital Learning Day Live! Rural education has a significant majority of perpetually impoverished counties in America. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

eSchool News

References Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education (2023). AIICE IIC Tenets. link] CAST (2018). UDL and the learning brain. Wakefield, MA. Retrieved from [link] Gutiérrez, R. Context matters: How Should We Conceptualize Equity in Mathematics Education?

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Stunning: Research shows intense spike in children’s media use

eSchool News

New research has unearthed a dramatic increase in the number of young children who have their own tablet device–42 percent compared to 1 percent in 2011. Next page: Has the digital divide between high- and low-income families closed?).

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The truth about “Maslow before Bloom”

Neo LMS

Further proof is this study by Diener and Tay (2011), involving 60,865 participants from 123 countries, which strongly suggests that the order of needs fulfillment has nothing to do with well being. Cyber)bullying, socio-economic inequality, the digital divide can be aspects of a student’s life whether we like it or not.

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New Survey Reveals How Much Time Kids Really Spend on Mobile Devices

Edsurge

That’s one of the key findings in a just-released Common Sense Media survey tracking media habits among children aged 0-8, which also found a narrowing but significant digital divide among lower-income households, and the first signs that virtual reality and internet-connected toys are finding their way into American homes.

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Recordings Now Publicly Available - Library 2.0 "Libraries as Community Anchors" Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Libraries increasingly have an important role to play: as second responders in large scale events via the development and deployment of collaborative connectivity projects; in developing strategies to bridge technological digital divides; and to promote digital access, equity, opportunity, and inclusion.