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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

Students can access learning materials outside of school. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom. Ensuring internet access outside of school. Here are some examples.

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Equity Is Not Just About Access. It’s About Success.

Digital Promise

In November 2016, over 250 school district leaders, researchers, thought leaders, and other partners came to Baltimore, Maryland to learn from one of the nation’s most forward-thinking school districts, Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS). ” During a keynote address at the meeting, Dr. Freeman A. It’s about success.”

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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

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But ASU has an explicit mission to help more people access higher education — including, Austin says, students from low-income families and students from underrepresented minority groups. In addition to completing coursework, Osgood appreciated the opportunity to meet her classmates — and especially her professors — in person.

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

eSchool News

Educators with a mind towards equity typically excel at access. Good teachers are finding ways to meet the learning needs of all of these diverse brains within the same classroom. Ralabate (2016) gives us five fundamental questions that allow teachers to begin to transform their practice.

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The Debate is On: PBS Launches You Choose 2016 for Kids

EdNews Daily

PBS KIDS recently launched You Choose 2016 , a kid-friendly website for ages 6-8 providing kids with relevant, non-partisan democracy-related information through interactive exploration and video. You Choose 2016 allows kids to: 1. Meet the candidates” and learn fun & important facts about them.

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LED Throwies Meet the Magnetic Board

User Generated Education

I have been offered an opportunity to teach maker education again at a local summer enrichment program during summer, 2016. LED Throwies Meet the Magnetic Board. I now have this foundation and can build upon this foundation. LEDs (see [link] ). Coin Batteries (I get mine in bulk from ebay).

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

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The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. The plan separates technological divides — barriers that block some students from full participation — into access, design and use. These reports, some observers believe, mark a thoughtful step toward ensuring digital equity.