A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2020

At the same time, the digital divide has to be tackled where all learners have equitable access to a device, reliable WIFI, and quality resources. Importance of a learning management system (LMS) Before the pandemic, many districts had an LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom), but its uses varied greatly.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. 1 Further, there’s a second level digital divide 2 that’s emerging in the classroom.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2020

For instance, educators may use choice menus to give students options in assignments and assessments or design different learning paths to account for student preferences and abilities. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

We started a couple of years ago with a digital equity group to focus on this issue when we started seeing issues related to the digital divide. But access is maybe the first part of the digital divide. Hiefield: We’re a standards-based district and we assess our learning targets.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

In school subscriptions, quizzes are available to assess student basic comprehension skills. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

If your infrastructure cannot handle the lift of a one-to-one device program, your school may want to invest in assessing and refreshing its network. . For example, for teachers introducing Chromebooks into the classroom, Google offers a number of training videos through its Teacher Center. “Are they going to be [802.11]ac,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With Google's Applied Digital Skills as his foundation, Hicks prioritizes culturally relevant teaching through the vehicle of computer science. As part of our celebration of Black History Month, EdSurge spoke to Hicks about his culturally relevant approach to closing the digital divide. HBCU Google Docs 101 Assignment.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. featured_content_1%%.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the Common Core and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos. And they do.

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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 Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digital divide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We

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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. Together we used other software for more synthetic work: Google Jamboard, Google Docs, Miro, etc. Midnight deadlines become an infinite regress.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 3, 2023

Every verbal request to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google are dependent on AI, as are many of the chatbots that pop up when navigating websites. Deliver real-time feedback and assessments, empowering students and teachers to identify strengths to leverage, opportunities to improve, and any additional supportive needs necessary.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

In school subscriptions, quizzes are available to assess student basic comprehension skills. Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide.

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MindShift

JUNE 9, 2021

She said that specifically identifying which standard is being assessed, and providing accommodations for the standards not presently up to bat, can help make school more accessible for all students. Offered on both Google Meet and Zoom, closed captioning can have benefits for all students. She has been teaching online for seven years.

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The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

(graphic by Tim Holt) The digital shift revolution in educational practice isn''t about throwing everything out that has been done before (sometimes to Ad nauseam ) but to add projects & product choices that enhance learning and better demonstrate research assessments and the comprehension of data. It''s worth it.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper and online resources after shuttering schools because of coronavirus. She received her first response on the morning of April 9 and opened it immediately.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

This is evident in the way that Google Forms transform exit tickets by quickly and efficiently identifying areas of confusion, highlighting opportunities to dive in to the next day’s lesson. Socrative , Kahoot and TopHat , are great tools for augmenting assessment, especially in flipped classrooms.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

The most obvious addition to the plan is its focus on the “digital-use divide.” In 2010, when the department published its last National Ed Tech Plan, the phrase “digital divide” usually meant unequal access to devices like laptops and high-speed internet, a severe disparity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

learncentral.org/event/143030/ APPLES AND ORANGES: EMPLOYEE SKILLS ASSESSMENT DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (Elluminate) Wed 30 Mar 01:00PM New York / Wed 30 Mar 05:00PM GMT / Thu 31 Mar 05:00AM Sydney Ajay Pangarkar. tools that can be used to assist teachers and schools in closing the digital-divide and most importantly, the achievement gap.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 23, 2011

The Power of the Product: Creative, Meaningful, & Daring Ways to Demonstrate Information Mastery The conversation is a working and discovery session fueled by questions and assisted virtually by connected PLN members via Twitter with the goal of empowering our students by freeing them from repetitious, banal, and limiting assessments.

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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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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. We measure success in two ways.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Johnston County district leaders made it a priority to find out where they were going wrong.

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TeacherCast

AUGUST 27, 2015

Should individual teachers have to assess the pros and cons for themselves of systems like Edsby , Google Classroom, Edmodo, Schoology or Moodle? Google Classroom for assignment submission, Twitter for homework notification. A digital divide between teachers hurts students. Uniform assessment and reporting.

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

When the English proficiency assessment her program uses moved online several years ago, many of its corresponding course materials also went virtual, making her program’s transition to distance learning less difficult materials-wise. Translate closed captions in a Google Meet! Empower your #newcomers #ells. CAellchat #ELLchat.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2018

When it comes to the digital tools that you have discretion over, shop for your learners like you are on Amazon! You may actually be on Amazon, the App Store, Google Play, the Chrome Web Store, etc. We still have a huge digital divide. Use Digital Tools FOR Learning. Too many choices is a good problem to have!

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Learning management systems (LMS) streamline course administration, enabling educators to organize content, assess student progress, and facilitate online discussions. Online collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, empower students to collaborate on projects and share resources in real time.

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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.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The TED Talk.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

IHE blogger John Warner responds : “Algorithmic Assessment vs. Critical Reflection.” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Via Geekwire : “ Google quietly donates $10M to University of Washington in another major computer science gift.” Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” “ Amplify Slims Down and Spins Off Assessment Content Provider, Fluence ,” says Edsurge. . “Debut” is really not the right verb as it’s not actually released a product yet. Oh VR promises. Never change.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The latter group, which is more likely to be comprised of Black, Latino, and low-income students, performed better on writing assessments when writing with pencil and paper. Education technology companies now promise that they can help schools identify these struggling students, through an algorithmic assessment of who’s at risk.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. ” Go Ducks. ” Accreditation and Certification.

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