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3 educational technology tools to be thankful for

eSchool News

Google is a familiar platform for most students, so it comes as no surprise that the Chromebook, which uses the Google Chrome browser, is the number one device of choice for more than 58 percent of U.S. These devices and the included applications like Google Docs support collaborative learning. Broadband improvements.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

Edsurge

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Going to a Tech Conference? Make Sure to Focus on What Matters.

Edsurge

Take the perennially-popular “50 Best Apps” or “How to Make a Google Form” sessions that crop up every year. Does the session require broadband access that is not likely to exist in the homes of many students? On the surface, this seems like a strong approach. If a session focuses on software, is it adaptable to all skill levels?

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Strategies for Closing the Digital Equity Gap

edWeb.net

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Honest Conversation. Connect with Regina at on Twitter @reginaschaffer.

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Where Diversity, Inclusion and Education Meet: A Conversation With Black Girls Code Founder, Kimberly Bryant

Edsurge

Exposure may be one factor: A Google-sponsored Gallup report ( PDF ) that found that female students are less aware of online and local opportunities to learn computer science. Our students definitely want to be involved in technology, and they also have high leadership potential. Source: Quartz ( See full image ).

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

When students at Woodman School, on the western edge of Montana, are working on research projects in class, they don’t have the option to start their search with Google. Its definition of what it means to be “rural” is beyond that which most Americans will ever come to know. Subscribe today! They can’t access online encyclopedias.

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Teaching Without Schools: Grief, Then A ‘Free-For-All’

MindShift

students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet.” by 8:00, she’s sending out the day’s assignments via email and Google Classroom. says her classroom had been paperless for two years, with her students using Google Classroom to turn in their work.