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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

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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Best Practices with Mobile Tech: #adjunctchat Tuesday, July 15

Connecting 2 the World

I am able to point to different resources or help students learn how to navigate through information, developing their information literacy, communication, and critical thinking skills. Using technology in the classroom also helps the instructor to give instant feedback as students work in class.

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Why the Education Expenses are Rising and How to Deal with it?

Evelyn Learning

Operational Cost Gone are the days when the things required to impart education were just different subject books, a professor, a blackboard, chalk, desks, and students. How to Make Education Affordable? All of these speakers made some really interesting points about how to make education affordable. Now, the time has changed.

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Top 20 Tech Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

But we have too many teachers, even new teachers fresh out of college, with no idea how to utilize digital tools to increase student learning. You will probably notice that most of these tips are NOT about tech tools specifically, but how to maximize their use to improve student learning. We still have a huge digital divide.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. . It’s perhaps not surprising.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.” ” Via NPR : “Teaching The Intangibles: How To Ingrain ‘Grit’ In Students.” “ Blackboard ’s Online Learning Trend Report ” by Blackboard. ” Go Ducks.