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Tech Access in Schools: Making Edtech Accessible to All

Digital Promise

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Foundry10’s 2018 study focused on technology usage in U.S. In our study, numerous inequities across the schools also became apparent. Focus on Tech Support and Infrastructure.

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?What Studying Education Taught Me in 2017—And Where Tech Can Take Us This Year

Edsurge

In 2017, this was especially true while taking a computer science course on data structures and algorithms. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. Without any guidance, and sometimes shoddy internet access, this is no easy feat. do not have the opportunity to take college courses.

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4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives

Neo LMS

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. 4 Examples of the best digital access initiatives. Between September 2016 and May 2017 the program donated 1,600 computers and 870 4G mobile hotspots to low-income families in Denver, Colorado. EveryoneOn.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition)

Doug Levin

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 33 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition)

Doug Levin

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 17 Edition). the ethical implications of Facebook in education → This site is intended as an accessible and easy to understand guide enabling visitors to draw their own conclusions about the appropriateness of Facebook in education. face up to. |

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PROOF POINTS: Study finds guaranteed free tuition lures low-income students

The Hechinger Report

A 2017 study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that many elite colleges, including the majority of the Ivy League, enroll more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. This study is evidence, however, that the upfront guarantee scholarship structure is more effective at increasing low-income enrollment.

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How Texas plans to make access to advanced math more equitable 

The Hechinger Report

In that class was Alexis Grant, an 11-year-old who thinks her year in sixth-grade honors math will pave the way for achieving one of her goals: Studying at Harvard. “I With an opt-out policy, he said, some students will be new to the advanced track and not have developed uniform study skills in the lower grades.