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. It’s going to be a great year,” said Erik Stromquist, CEO of CTL.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

World Cat is a comprehensive curation of books, CDs, articles, videos, and more available at all libraries in a geographic area or around the world, for all age groups. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. The site is gorgeous, easy-to-navigate, with bright, visual, colorful books to entice readers. .

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Check out the following tools to make that happen: Google Calendar Appointments. Google Forms ( here's an example ) Sign Up Genius (free basic account) 2. After all, the digital divide remains a big issue across the country, and students may be participating in distance learning from wireless hot spots.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today’s case in point is an odd article in Insider Higher Ed. “ HyFlex Is Not the Future of Learning ” starts off by complaining about that form of teaching, then becomes a general complaint about online learning. To begin with, the article fails to connect with or even name anyone else’s work on the subject.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Listen to this article. It’s all part of Verizon’s commitment to help close the digital divide. She also shares the “Career Day” AR app that can help inspire your students all year long. Jaime always shares great ideas and tips, so you don’t want to miss this episode!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. Companies like Meta/Oculus, Niantic, Google and Apple are all putting dollars into education enabled by VR and AR and will be eager to highlight a positive impact on learning.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. Some of the ideas in this article were part of our discussions and writings. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 25, 2022

Listen to this article. . It seems that many teachers have begun using more digital tools in their in-person instruction as well. Jen shares how she feels that teachers are utilizing digital tools in a way that now goes beyond substituting paper for computer. . Jen also shares how the digital divide has become more apparent.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Other investors include Sander Daniels (Thumbtack), Bangaly Kaba (Instagram/Instacart/Reforge), Jack Altman (Lattice), Amira Yahyaoui (Moz), Iman Abuzeid (Incredible Health), Nick Soman (Decent), Jewel Burks (Google), and Liz Fong-Jones. The diversity of these backers echoes Career Karma’s $1.5

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

For both students and teachers, online learning has come with a lot of challenges, from the digital divide and technology access to mental health impacts , or a lack of essential school and community supports. Google Doc handout. See Google's cookie information for details.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks. “I

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The company also announced today availability of the Celly Android App for free download on Google Play. “We Celly’s features can be accessed, managed, and fully synchronized using text, web, email, and now an Android app available for download on Google Play. Feature advantages include: ?

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Unfortunately, school closures have meant a step backward for many when it comes to the digital divide. And a recent article in EdSurge, “ Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access ,” shared several more ideas that districts, government agencies, and telecommunications companies have advanced.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I wish to share with you this article I wrote for PBLWorks (BIE/BUCK Institute) of which I am part of the National Faculty. I hope pou find this first article helpful and that you return for continued postings in this series. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection. Read the article.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Gaggle. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

World Cat is a comprehensive curation of books, CDs, articles, videos, and more available at all libraries in a geographic area or around the world, for all age groups. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. The site is gorgeous, easy-to-navigate, with bright, visual, colorful books to entice readers. .

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

This week I read an article that documented the recent partnership between futurist Ray Kurzweil and Google''s Larry Page. Will such a universal translation tool become available to all, or will the social gulfs be amplified because of a new digital divide? Unported License.

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eSpark

MAY 18, 2016

Dr. Duckworth warns that districts are jumping the gun on building character development into accountability systems, and in a recent article for the New York Times , she writes , “This was not at all my intent, and this is not at all a good idea.” Duckworth referenced fellow MacArthur winner Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

D-ID – Digital people text to video Prof Jim – AI text to video to add to lessons Speaker Bios as Submitted Dan Fitzpatrick Dan Fitzpatrick is the author of The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. 00;28;45;04 – 00;29;05;10 Brad Weinstein Well, I look at it in a couple of ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice? Read more about the Digital Divide.

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MindShift

JUNE 9, 2021

For students who might not feel confident reading grade-level material, or who process information better when listening, read-along features for books and articles can be pivotal. Offered on both Google Meet and Zoom, closed captioning can have benefits for all students. Accessibility Opportunities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2017

Google Docs is a free word processing program that does 99% of everything a student will ever need to do when writing. What isn’t included as part of the Google Docs program tool can be augmented with mostly free third-party add-ons, extensions, and apps. Google makes it easy for groups to edit a document simultaneously.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2012

What changes are they making that bring them into the digital age, and enable them to compete with current advances in technology? Firstly, libraries offer specialised search services which go beyond the simple searches you can perform on Google or other search engines. Publications such as Kelly et al's Library 2.0 social media.

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The Daring Librarian

DECEMBER 11, 2010

From a recent article I contributed to at the Innovative Educator blog - txtN N d library: Ideas for Librarians Who Want to Embrace the Power of Cell Phones (btw, feels weird to post this in the third person and do I use quotes if I wrote it?!) In our hallway - promoting our Google Form Book Reviews ! Want More Ideas?

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 23, 2011

My gorgeous mentor Joyce Valenza has written a must-read SLJ article about the EduCon unconference experience: "It''s networking at its best," says Valenza. "It''s The goal - creatively and collaboratively build a Google slidedeck, & wiki pages of product ideas. You may ask what is EduCon, an unconference, and why a conversation?

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

From an article by Colleen Graves : " By far the most popular and widely used Makey Makey lesson in schools is designing a game in Scratch and creating handmade controllers with Makey Makey. One of my AWESOME former 8th graders, Lillian, started a Makey-Makey Made Simple-Simple Crowdsourced Google Doc Tutorial. So much fun!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I read an interesting article in EdSurge last week about how current educational technologies do little to move learners beyond rote recall of knowledge and it caught me off guard. What struck me most was the narrative in the article, which seemingly compared the role of technology to the role of pedagogy.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 11, 2016

As schools go more and more digital with systems, curriculum, assignments and more, they face the need to provide equity in digital access for their students. This year has seen a huge increase in attention to "Digital Equity" or the "Digital Divide". Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

During virtual learning, Tovar taught his students how to enable closed captioning on Google Meet, as well as how to translate those captions into a student’s primary language, with Google Meet providing instantaneous translation in more than 100 languages. . Translate closed captions in a Google Meet! CAellchat #ELLchat.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates.

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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, Google Reader. Um, they do.) The Death of Aaron Swartz.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Google has acquired lesson-provider Workbench. ” Via The New York Times : “ Digital Divide Is Wider Than We Think, Study Says.” I’m ending that series, I think, so I can focus on writing books.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. The software in question, Odysseyware , is featured in a recent series of articles in Slate , chronicling the worst online classes , particularly those used for credit recovery programs. ” Google responds. for Robotics Contest.”

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