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2024 National Education Technology Plan targets the digital divide

eSchool News

The Digital Design Divide , addressing opportunities for educators to expand their professional learning and build the capacities necessary to design learning experiences enabled by technology. .” The Department will also release a collection of federal resources to support students’ digital health, safety, and citizenship.

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

4] Principals should be in the loop on things like access to the curriculum for special education, need for assistive technologies, and other accommodations. Educators should be sure to provide a checklist or task analysis for parents when they make these assignments.[8]. Strategies for When Special Education Moves Online.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Take facial recognition technology. Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. When used by police for surveillance purposes, the technology can lead to wrongful arrests or even deadly violence.

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Immersive Reader: A powerful tool to support schoolwide literacy

NeverEndingSearch

Microsoft Accessibility And Assistive Technologies For Education: A Total Economic Impact Analysis. Research: Leveling the Playing Field with Microsoft Learning Tools. Katherine McKnight, Ph.D., Center for Evaluation & Study of Educational Equity, RTI International. Forrester Total Economic Impact Study.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

Through the HathiTrust Research Center , scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright. So it’s not like my projects have to come to a screeching halt in 1923,” he says.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

They’ve been taking turns presenting on disabilities such as dyslexia, brain injuries and deafness; Noble gave hers, on assistive technologies for children with physical disabilities, last week. Her 24 classmates smile and wave as they log on from different states.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. She has 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, writing, and policy analysis, primarily in education.

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