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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. Products that use voice assistant technology to measure a student’s language comprehension and creation skills are one example.

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Resources, stories, and connections with those who use social media in today’s k-12 classrooms

The Innovative Educator

In the webinar, I shared case studies of amazing students, parents, and teachers. In case you missed it, the webinar was called “Social Media: An Essential Tool for Today’s Classroom.” You can view the webinar here [link] com/edwebnet/EA59D688824C. social media in education'

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Research to Better Support Your Students with Reading Disabilities

edWeb.net

Using assistive technology in the form of computer-based text-to-speech or human-recorded audiobooks can help students with reading problems sooner and more comprehensively. For example, if listening comprehension is no better than reading comprehension, assistive technology may not be beneficial.

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Annual Invent It challenge launches, focusing on solving health problems

eSchool News

ePals, a product of Cricket Media, in partnership with the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, opened the call for entries for the Spark!Lab For complete entry guidelines and Official Rules, visit [link]. Lab Invent It Challenge. The deadline for submitting inventions to the Spark!Lab

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

As we know, the pandemic led to a proliferation of learning technologies, with districts reporting the use of an average of 2,500 edtech tools in the 2023 EdTech Top 40 research study. This rapidly evolving technology has only begun to make an impact in the field of education.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

As we know, the pandemic led to a proliferation of learning technologies, with districts reporting the use of an average of 2,500 edtech tools in the 2023 EdTech Top 40 research study. This rapidly evolving technology has only begun to make an impact in the field of education.

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How a Blind Student Who Felt Locked Out of STEM Classes Challenged—and Changed—Her University

Edsurge

What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. “If The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. “It But I can’t do that.”

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