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Digital Divide 2.0: a few facts and figures

Neo LMS

Welcome to NEO Blog 2018! Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Digital divide: facts and figures.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In the 2018 school year, roughly one in every five California school children missed at least one day because of a natural disaster, school maintenance issue, shooting or other emergency, according to an analysis by CalMatters.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

Librarians were instrumental in helping guide teachers in those first weeks, said Leander district library coordinator Becky Calzada, sitting in on staff meetings, helping set up Google classrooms and Zoom calls, and answering copyright questions and curating digital resources. Louis Public Library have moved completely online.