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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

Edsurge

suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. And this spring, 60 percent of low-income parents expressed that their children are likely to experience at least one digital obstacle doing their K-12 homework online. Roughly 21 million people in the U.S.

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Next Generation Learning: Personalization

Neo LMS

Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously. In 2013, Vista Unified’s acting superintendent interviewed more than 2,000 middle- and high-school students about their school experiences.

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New Generation Learning: Personalization

Neo LMS

Where last time we drew attention to schools that had made innovative leaps in assessment protocols, today we look at schools that are taking the design of personalized learning pathways seriously. In 2013, Vista Unified’s acting superintendent interviewed more than 2,000 middle- and high-school students about their school experiences.

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School Boards: 7 Steps to Supporting Digital Learning

Education Superhighway

Today, 99% of America’s schools have enough Internet connectivity to make digital learning available in their classrooms , but 1% of students are still on the wrong side of the digital divide. Plan for Growing Bandwidth.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.

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