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What Schools Need to Know About Voice Assistants

EdTech Magazine

voice assistants include Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft ’s Cortana, Samsung ’s Bixby and the Google Assistant. broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. In the U.S., According to Statista, 31 percent of U.S. Here’s why.

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What Schools Need to Know About Voice Assistants

EdTech Magazine

voice assistants include Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft ’s Cortana, Samsung ’s Bixby and the Google Assistant. broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. In the U.S., According to Statista, 31 percent of U.S. Here’s why.

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What Schools Need to Know About Voice Assistants

EdTech Magazine

voice assistants include Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft ’s Cortana, Samsung ’s Bixby and the Google Assistant. broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. In the U.S., According to Statista, 31 percent of U.S. Here’s why.

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Equity Isn’t Just About Technology. It’s About Supporting Students and Families.

Edsurge

By now the coronavirus, and the resulting fallout, has impacted just about every family in one way or another. And research indicates that students from low-income backgrounds could fall further behind their peers if learning stops too long and the country sinks into recession. But not everyone is equally affected.

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Teaching Online During COVID-19

Ask a Tech Teacher

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I get from teachers in my online classes and on my blog is: “How do I do it?” Pedagogies for distance learning.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learningbroadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

As the district prepares to reopen for full in-person learning on August 30, teachers are attending training sessions and figuring out just what role technology will play in their classrooms. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I