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2024 National Education Technology Plan targets the digital divide

eSchool News

Key points: A federal outline for education technology intends to close access gaps How to work for equity of access in classrooms How schools can help students overcome the digital divide For more news on digital access, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership page The latest iteration of the U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona. “As

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Building an Effective EdTech Strategy - Bring together workload, collaboration, and education

ViewSonic Education

Collaboration underpins the most successful technology companies. The lessons that ViewSonic learns from supplying technology to the corporate sector, and to education sectors across the world, are applied to what we do in the UK. Technology can have a significant impact for all children. ” This is a positive step.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

In the last few months, AI-powered technologies like ChatGPT and BingAI have received a lot of attention for their potential to transform many aspects of our lives. Take facial recognition technology. When used by police for surveillance purposes, the technology can lead to wrongful arrests or even deadly violence.

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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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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. Without Google’s backing and technological abilities, a resource like HathiTrust would have been much harder to create, she says. “We

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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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Accessibility, Audio Texts, and the Persistence of Print

ProfHacker

[ This is a guest post by Michelle Morgan, who is Assistant Director of Educational Technology at Yale University and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Connecticut College. We consider a wide range of non-visual and non-textual sources as evidence worthy of our attention and analysis. We teach films and images.