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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

It estimates another 4,300 districts could be upgraded in the 2020-21 academic year. Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. It has also created a nifty visual dashboard with state-by-state drill downs. Podcasts, anyone?

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

The links didn’t work and as I researched, it looks like this AR experience debuted in 2020. I received some great-sounding stuff on Microsoft Immersive reader and a new Google AR Service called “The Hidden World of National Parks.” So, it sounded authoritative, but it was wrong and not current. So, the training data is older.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” This 2020 review of the research confirms that. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

on March 18, 2020. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Now, in an effort to narrow the digital access gap, school leaders and community partners have devised a bevy of creative, albeit short-term, solutions. on April 10, 2020. Inequity looms large.

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

The baby holds her smartphone, clicking, and Maria asks what I’m working on as she sees me typing obsessively on my laptop. Department of Labor, one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. Idit Harel. According to the U.S.

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Tools That Help English Language Learners Online and In Person

MindShift

efraintovarjr) August 15, 2020. While he began using this program prior to March 2020, he believes that the creativity required by the project was crucial for engaging students during virtual education. . “It’s are more likely to have smartphones than traditional computers or broadband internet at home than white adults.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

That was before 2020. The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. And the digital divide is about more than equipment. Copyright 2020 NPR. Here are five lessons learned so far: 1.