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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. The audience tried to spice up the discussion.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

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Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, in his classroom with students at William J. The digital divide will not be bridged simply by coding but “by young leaders who have been educated to transform their reality” says Amouzou. Wybrant cites the North Dakota Access Pipeline as an example. Palmer High School.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The Flipped Classroom". Um, they do.) WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove.

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