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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

Edsurge

The nonprofit was founded in response to the global wildfire adoption of its first-generation learning platform, KA Lite , which provided offline access to Khan Academy videos and exercises. Closing global education gaps How is Learning Equality addressing the challenge of the digital divide and the 2.6

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Summer Reading Online

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Open Library.

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Partnering Literacy and Technology to Improve One School

Digital Promise

We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. 1 Further, there’s a second level digital divide 2 that’s emerging in the classroom.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

New Articles May Not Be Read Thoroughly As for me, the 10 Minute Teacher podcast went live this week with episode 798 as I wrote about the Practical Uses of AI in the classroom and the free lesson plan I used with my older students. So, the training data is older. The integrity gap is going to be a major issue as we move fully into Web 3.

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Chaos Learning: Classroom vs Online?

My Island View

The greatest problem exposed is the digital divide caused by the economic divide. Zip codes still determine quality of education even more in a digital system. There are many drawbacks in digital systems that were less of an obstacle in face-to-face environments. Teachers are trained for the classroom.

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12 Websites for Digital Books Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Thanks to the efforts of many devoted professionals and the financial support of more, there are a wide variety of free/inexpensive sources for books that students can use for classroom activities as well as pleasure. Here are eight sites that offer free books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Open Library.

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