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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

To better understand how using technology can create equity in schools, we’ll outline how technology creates more equitable situations in the classroom. One of the most straightforward ways that technology contributes to equity in schools is ensuring that every student has access to learning materials, even outside of the classroom.

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

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Of course, there are technical aspects to protecting data, and as many schools have learned during the pandemic, district IT staff need to stay on top of evolving efforts to compromise systems. Based on CoSN’s “ Student Data Privacy: A School System Priority. However, it’s about the right data in the right hands.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. This talent for seeing how edtech can transform, rather than replace, traditional methods enhances every decision Colene makes in the classroom.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out.

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The Keys to Discussing Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

Despite universal concerns about student data privacy, communicating school policies can quickly overwhelm school leaders. CoSN has stepped in with guidance for superintendents and principals to help them with several aspects of student data privacy, including best practices for informing the community. Then, start with the basics.