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Facing a Digital Divide, Student Success Requires Connectivity and Access to Technology

Edsurge

Technology proficiency becomes essential for future success, and connected devices empower students to navigate the modern workplace. — It also sparked a broader conversation about the importance of digital equity and the need for universal access to technology and the internet. In 2020, T-Mobile launched Project 10Million, a $10.7

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Lessons from Treadmills and Owls: The Most Important Feature in Educational Technology Products

Iterating Toward Openness

Many educational technologies have a treadmill problem. More often than not, learners and instructors will both try to use educational technologies as if they were textbooks – looking for and then attending almost exclusively to static words and images – if they use them at all. Duolingo as An Example.

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What are the Most Popular Classroom Technologies in 2020?

EdNews Daily

Innovative and creative technologies and strategies make it easier for teachers to keep their students interested in the topic, distribute pre-class, in-class, and post-class study material, and gauge how much each student really understood the concept discussed in class. . Every day, new educational apps and sites are popping up online.

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Is Augmented Reality Technology The Future of Education ?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Technologies like Augmented Reality, that enrich the standard methods of imparting education are always in demand, now more than ever. This is where modern technologies like Augmented Reality come in. What is Augmented Reality Technology? How Does Augmented Reality Technology Work? billion mark as of 2017.

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Vernier Software & Technology Offers Free Remote Learning Resources for STEM

Educational Technology Guy

To keep students engaged in STEM learning during school closures, Vernier Software & Technology is offering a robust collection of free remote learning solutions for teachers and students. Vernier Video Analysis™: An extended free trial of this physics app is available through the end of June 2020.

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Recovering From 2020 Requires Supporting Students, Starting With Their Basic Needs

Edsurge

Around the world, people are starting to turn hopeful eyes toward the new year as the fervent desire to banish 2020 grows. Higher education is no exception. This op-ed is part of a series of year-end reflections EdSurge is publishing as 2020 concludes. But the lessons to be learned here are not new or unique to the pandemic.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

Edsurge

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. And yet, Chilean education expenditure as a percent of GDP (5.35