Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child. Digital Divide.

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Survey Digital Divide Learning EdTech 277

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Continued research is necessary to assess the long-term effectiveness of online learning and identify strategies for optimizing student outcomes in both online and classroom settings. Are students more successful through online learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

International Children’s Digital Library. The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library.

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Libraries Mobility eBook Android 124

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 11, 2017 New Brunswick Public Schools to Test Its Cybersecurity | TAPinto New Brunswick → Good idea: The city Board of Education approved a resolution to spur an independent assessment of its network and cybersecurity defense mechanisms. the same thing, yet it is the basis for algorithmic assessment and feedback.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

And with online assessments now being required in many states, reliable broadband access is also essential so that students’ knowledge and skills are accurately represented, and technology is not a barrier to achievement and its documentation. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.

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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. Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) designated the Wednesday of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Banned Books Week as Banned Websites Awareness Day (BWAD, pronounced bee-wad ). Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies. Digital Citizenship by OSAPAC. For high school.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. 2024 presents an opportunity for teachers leading the adoption curve to experiment with AI as a tool for assessment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

For instance, a student may refer to the Oxford online dictionary instead of meandering to the class library and sifting through the pages to find the word “obfuscate.” Socrative , Kahoot and TopHat , are great tools for augmenting assessment, especially in flipped classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

I have to do the in-flip, which means I do the videos sometimes in class, and use tools like “EdPuzzle” to kind of insert that formative assessment and that sort of thing. You kow, we haven’t closed that digital divide quite yet. Vicki: Yes! And you know, I do this. But we do want to shift to these authentic projects. #3:

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 23, 2011

Creating a 24/7 Library through blogging, wiki web resources, & Twittering Librarians can up their web presence and promote their practice to the community. Our yearly MSET conference is in April & I''m going to be a featured speaker! It''s Ok to be Feelin Kinda Shy! Yes, you can start being "out there" from the comfort of your couch!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. 2024 presents an opportunity for teachers leading the adoption curve to experiment with AI as a tool for assessment.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. 1 | FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS EXPOSE DIGITAL INEQUITIES.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. Moreover, there's no external assessment to gauge if skills transfer to other texts, weakening the accountability of these technologies. Recently, a new kind of tool has emerged.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. It’s not enough just to assess students; we actually have to do something about what’s going on.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Lower-income Americans still lag in tech adoption | Pew Research Center → Even as many aspects of the digital divide have narrowed over time, the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Lower-income Americans still lag in tech adoption | Pew Research Center → Even as many aspects of the digital divide have narrowed over time, the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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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. E-books and online libraries provide instant access to an extensive range of reading materials, fostering literacy in digital formats.

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Khan Academy Technology Tools LMS 57

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without — a problem known as the “homework gap.”. A central issue when granting private use of a public resource is assessing the public benefit. We’re looking at a public asset, assigned to do public good.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

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, The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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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 Education Dive : “ Digital ed tech pricing library brings transparency to procurement.” Via NPR : “Beyond DeVos , What 5 Key Trump Appointees Could Mean For Schools.”

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

. “In the Leeds offering, for example, each course certificate will cost £59 and there are five taught courses; the sixth assessment course, which leads to 10 credits, is priced at £250 – making a total cost of £545 – which will also cover access to online library content,” The Guardian reports. (It’ll

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