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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2021. Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. In 2021, I believe the spirit of innovation and flexibility within K-12 education will continue to grow.

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How Can We Close the Digital Learning Gap This School Year?

Digital Promise

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. artificial intelligence , the future of assessments, and leveraging block chain technology to facilitate the transitions from K-12 to higher education and the workforce). I am a father of four.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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New research finds widening educational inequity in year of COVID

eSchool News

The research examined MAP Growth assessment scores from 5.5 public school students in grades 3-8 between fall 2020 and spring 2021 and found: On average, students across most grades and subject areas made learning gains in 2020-21, but at a lower rate compared to pre-pandemic trends. million U.S.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Hotspots no silver bullet for rural remote learning

The Hechinger Report

A team of fifth grade teachers at an elementary school invited Muri, the superintendent of Ector County Independent School District in West Texas, to participate in an online scavenger hunt they had designed for students. To assess the full extent of the home connectivity gap in Ector County, the school district commissioned a study.

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What Is the True Cost of a 1:1 Device Program? One State’s Careful Rollout Offers a Look

Edsurge

The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. MDE leaders agreed with the Mississippi Alliance’s assessment and advocated for a cost model that reflected the true cost of configuring devices so that they were “ready-to-learn.” Accessibility was a particular concern in Mississippi.

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