EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

Previously via laptop computers, but more recently via mobile devices. The Digital Tipping Point - moment in a young person''s life when they migrate to the digital world. They will have very different expectations of what a book will be and what learning will be even as they enters Kindergarten!

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Digital Divide Technology Social Media Mobility 61

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2016

North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District (MGSD), a recognized K-12 innovator, is deploying the platform as part of the broad digital conversion taking place as schools transition from paper-based teaching and learning to an online approach in which every student and teacher has access to an Internet device.

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Blackboard Digital Divide Competency Based Learning Learning 40

Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Far too many futurologists, authors and commentators are ignoring the issue of the digital divide. Several books I have read recently on new and emerging technologies provide a healthy balance. The digital divide will not go away, but it cannot be ignored. Not everyone can participate in the digital society.

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Digital Divide Broadband Facebook Outcomes 64

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 92

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge.

Learning 69

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

It’s happened to all of us– we’re at school trying to access the perfect website for a learning activity at school and… it’s blocked. While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar.

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Libraries Social Media 40

The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 11, 2010

A Quick Response (QR) code is a two-dimensional or 2D bar code which can be interpreted by any mobile phone with camera capabilities. Once on the Google form wikipage students input the “key” to a drawing for a chance to win an iTunes gift card or a bundle of free books. In our hallway - promoting our Google Form Book Reviews !

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Libraries Classroom Smartphone Wiki 74

The Daring Librarian

APRIL 3, 2013

During testing season we have a challenge to support student research with limited access to our computer labs and mobile labs. This playlist will help you find out all about their habits, attitudes, and yes.their powers!" A MentorMob playlist helps students focus their research without being distracted (hopefully!)

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Social Media Digital Divide Facebook Study 65

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

This made it difficult to run programs like Pixie or access online math games. Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers. Without reliable [internet] access, there’s no way you can do something like that,” Tower said.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

If you''re interested in volunteering, please join the Volunteer Group and follow the instructions there for booking your times. The Webinars are free, but when you purchase the "Mattering IS the Agenda" toolkit you get exclusive access to the recordings. Thank you, in advance, for your contribution to this great event!

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

techlearning

APRIL 17, 2019

A 2016 survey of 1,200 parents revealed that while 94 percent of families are connected to the internet, 23 percent access it on mobile devices, 26 percent share a single computer and 20 percent experienced loss of internet service due to lack of payment

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Digital Divide How To Survey Mobility 76

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

Competition resulting from the continuous evolution of tablets, laptops, and now Chrome books, puts schools in a better position to make large-scale investments in mobile technology. Advocates for 1:1 programs will claim that it is the only way to go as it ensures equitable access to all students regardless of socioeconomic status.

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BYOD Laptops Digital Divide Tablets 303

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Key trends from 2011 : People expect anytime anywhere access Resources becoming more cloud based Abundance of resources make it more challenging for us to function in the role of educator as we know it. Digital media literacy continues to rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. have a mobile phone.

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BYOD Poll Everywhere Mobility Laptops 60

MindShift

MARCH 20, 2015

This is life for the majority of American kids whose parents didn’t go to college, says social scientist and Harvard professor Robert Putnam in his new book, “ Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis.” The notion of being able to help them all becomes overwhelming. Courtesy of Robert Putnam. It wasn’t always this way.

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Facebook Digital Divide Meeting Mobility 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: March 31, 2017 The Digital Divide: A Quarter of the Nation Is Without Broadband | Time → Politically, the persistence of the digital gap defies logic. Accessible scholarship. Transparent science.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: March 31, 2017 The Digital Divide: A Quarter of the Nation Is Without Broadband | Time → Politically, the persistence of the digital gap defies logic. Accessible scholarship. Transparent science.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150