The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 24, 2017

This digital divide and poverty create unique challenges. The need for more rural education advocacy. An example of a rural program from the Farm Bureau that is an exemplary idea we can use in education. Rural education has a significant majority of perpetually impoverished counties in America. Listen Now.

Broadband 176

Broadband Advocacy Digital Divide Education 176

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015. But more work needs to be done to shrink the digital divide. Credit: AP Photo/Kantele Franko.

Digital Divide 115

Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Wybrant cites the North Dakota Access Pipeline as an example. Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, in his classroom with students at William J. He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 90

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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.” Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.) Online Grade Portals.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. What will happen to encryption , for example? Or maybe it was a reality TV show.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40