Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

To set the foundation for technology-empowered learning during and beyond the pandemic, education leaders are actively tackling internet and device access issues to narrow the digital divide. Educators tell us that they need more support when it comes to their knowledge of using technology in ways that best accelerate learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

It involves ensuring that individuals have equal opportunities to access and utilize digital tools, bridging the digital divide and promoting inclusivity in the digital landscape.

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Digital Citizenship Digital Divide Analysis Accessibility 105

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 25, 2023

For example, the summary suggested I talked about using AI for data analysis when in reality, I used AI to help generate real-world data to teach Excel to students. It is a subtle difference but one that is meaningful and results in a contextual issue. The integrity gap is going to be a major issue as we move fully into Web 3.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

A significant challenge for Delta communities is the ever-growing digital divide. The student-to-counselor ratio in Mississippi is 398 to 1, almost 60 percent higher than the American School Counselor Association recommendation of 250 to 1, according to an analysis done by Charlie Health.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Guidelines 117

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New 5G capabilities will come online, bringing easier, faster, anywhere, anytime connectivity to computing devices for K-12 and other industries like healthcare as they begin to augment traditional wireless solutions and help bridge the digital divide. New tools are needed in cybersecurity to fight AI attacks with AI protection.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

ChatGPT Enterprise differs from the free version of the product in what it can process (it has greater data analysis capabilities and doesn’t limit the number of requests), how quickly it can process requests and how secure the information is (with this type of account, OpenAI won’t use the data for its training models).

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The data was then sent to Baker’s team at UPenn for analysis. Source (for all charts in article): BrightBytes survey Such findings are not surprising to Baker, who notes that they reaffirm the existence of the “ digital divide ,” or unequal access to technology across different communities and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These methods include an interrelated set of skills, such as pattern recognition, abstraction and decomposition, applied to solve complex problems using, for example, automation, data analysis or computational modeling. Related: Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Digital Divides While some may end up with too much of the latest media, others are completely cut off, due to persistent lack of broadband. Perhaps the poor will inhabit a mostly digitally-meditated world as face-to-face contact becomes a luxury good.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Finally, they should build on the efforts to close digital divides during the pandemic to ensure that English learners can access and effectively use all the learning technologies they need to succeed at school. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.

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Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 133

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In the 2018 school year, roughly one in every five California school children missed at least one day because of a natural disaster, school maintenance issue, shooting or other emergency, according to an analysis by CalMatters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Related: Analysis: hundreds of colleges and universities show financial warning signs. There are several steps that policymakers can and should take to shrink the digital divide, including having Congress allocate emergency funding to schools and libraries that expand broadband access to their communities.

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Accessibility Broadband Survey Digital Divide 136

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automation of grading, attendance tracking, and data analysis facilitates efficient classroom management. There are privacy issues associated with the collection and analysis of extensive student data. Privacy concerns: The collection and analysis of extensive student data by AI raise privacy issues.

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Education Adaptive Learning Personalized Learning Gamification 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

A 2018 meta-analysis found that summer interventions are likely most effective for improving outcomes for low-income students and narrowing the achievement gap between students who are poor and those who are not. Schools’ actions matter in helping to alleviate the disparities created outside the classroom.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Listen to the problems Schaberg identifies in that final section: the digital divide; students not having a good physical location to be on camera; missing the physical campus. One more problem occurs and it’s one I found disorienting at first. The article starts by criticizing HyFlex, yet the second half might not be about that.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 28, 2020

An analysis from June by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Common Sense found that 30% (15 million to 16 million) of all K–12 public school students in the US live in households that have no internet connection or lack an adequate device for distance learning. Steyer, founder, and CEO of Common Sense.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

An 2016 EdWeek analysis showed that 2 in 5 high schools did not offer physics, which is problematic in an era when S.T.E.M. In almost every case, that will involve ensuring that schools have the capacity to offer such programs, and that underserved communities are not stuck on the wrong side of the digital divide.

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Learning Digital Divide Course Analysis 85

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

AI offers insights and analysis of the effectiveness of their instruction and its outcome. COVID-19 highlighted that the digital divide was not exclusive to rural areas, as many families in urban areas cannot afford internet connectivity. Teachers will continue to embrace AI for analyzing classroom data and grading tools.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

The new analysis, titled “Teachers and Technology Use in the Classroom: Exclusive Survey Results,” represents an in-depth follow up to the Education Week Tech Confidence Index , released earlier this month as part of Education Week’s 2016 Technology Counts report. Read more about the Education Week Tech Confidence Index.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Privacy concerns: The collection and analysis of extensive student data raise privacy issues. Furthermore, the digital divide may exacerbate inequalities, as not all children have equal access to AI-driven educational tools. The emotional and social aspects of learning, crucial for holistic development, may be compromised.

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Education Data Personalized Learning Adaptive Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

“With less than 3% of VC funds employing black and Latinx investment professionals, only a small fraction of that sum will find its way to businesses owned or run by people of color,” according to the magazine Fast Company analysis of data compiled by the venture capital database Pitchbook.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

times the rate of white students, according to an analysis of federal data by the New York Civil Liberties Union. Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. It’s one way pandemic adjustments can address discipline inequities long-term. The disparity was slightly steeper on average (3.9 Related: Schooling has changed forever.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 142

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Business Administrator Richard Jannarone said he and his technology team lobbied for the third-party analysis due, in part, to attempted attacks in the past. The contract will cost $14,910, according to the district. Tagged on: July 11, 2017 L.A. Unified gets a $3.26-million

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

John Harrington, Funds for Learning Among the groups commenting on the issue, both ISTE and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) raised the possibility that digital education providers can pay to deliver their content more quickly, and wondered aloud if the move would deepen the digital divide.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 13, 2016

history to bridge the digital divide.”. Big Differences in Prices Districts Pay for Web Connectivity, Analysis Finds. Students who get a smartphone can also use it as a hotspot, and for unlimited calls and texts in the United States, while on a Sprint network. District Extends Wi-Fi to Students in Public Housing.

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edWeb.net

JULY 26, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and, in many ways, worsened the digital divide and other inequitable aspects of America’s education system. However, it also created opportunities to develop more equitable outcomes, based on the widespread switch to digital learning experiences and new education models.

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Technology Education Professional Learning Outcomes 62

Mistakengoal.com

JUNE 25, 2014

Two weeks ago, I defended my dissertation NON-RESPONSE BIAS ON WEB-BASED SURVEYS AS INFLUENCED BY THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND PARTICIPATION GAP. It’s been about a year-and-a-half since my last post about my dissertation.

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Survey Digital Divide Analysis Data 40

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

One of the most important digital divides to overcome is the technophobia divide - the wills and the will nots. And yet, in the final analysis, most would admit that children and young people know quite a lot about how to use technology, and many have already learnt where many of the dangers lie in web use.

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Strategy Training Digital Divide Guidelines 70

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

is one of the nation’s leading experts in E-rate and is passionate in her work to close the digital divide. At EducationSuperHighway, Josh provides expert E-rate advice, analysis and training for districts, regional organizations and states across the country. Cynthia Schultz, Esq. She received her J.D.

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E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Young people] have views, insights and analysis that they’re doing all the time,” said Lissa Soep, senior producer and research director at Youth Radio. She already knew her experience, but she used it to bring more nuance to a much larger discussion about the digital divide. Photo/Sophie for Youth Radio Raw.

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Social Media Digital Divide Smartphone Analysis 41

Digital Promise

JULY 25, 2017

This is leading to an emerging “second level digital divide” in US schools, fueled by differences in how technology is utilized to advance teaching and learning. To close this divide, we must fully support educators with the skills and tools they need to power up the learning environment. Blazar, D., & Hogan, D.

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Digital Learning Digital Divide Learning Education 265

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2020

The digital divide is real. ” According to an Associated Press analysis of census data , Detroit is not alone. .” In interviews with teachers and school leaders across the country — about how this vast experiment in remote learning is unfolding — a few important patterns emerged.

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Elementary Accessibility Google Digital Divide 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

The digital divide. North Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley said the digital divide has hampered the ability of families to navigate the crisis. Since moving back, she’d kept her social circle small and been bit of a “loner,” as she put it. “We We don’t mumble or complain,” she said.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.

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Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 180

Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Network and content analysis in an online community discourse. Analysis of a global online debate and the development of an interaction analysis model for examinig social construction of knowledge in computer conferencing. Sharing perspectives in virtual interaction: Review of methods of analysis. de Laat, M. Freedman, A.,

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Groups Outcomes Training Study 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

A meta-analysis of 39 studies of children’s picture books finds that children score better on comprehension tests after reading a paper book than after reading a digital book. Digital picture books have been a godsend during the pandemic. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report.

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