eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

As many experts will point out, DEI initiatives are prone to fail when they aren’t getting at the crux of the issue—existing systemic processes and challenges that prevent promising solutions and DEI-focused policies from being successful. Diversity stands for acknowledging that there is a range of differences in the classroom.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 121

Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. Dr. Audrey Peek is a Senior Government Policy and Data Analyst from ACE University. A lot of problems are going around related to social-economic aspects, historical aspects, digital divide, etc. Now, the time has changed.

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How To Secondary Education E-rate 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. Though these policies made a big impact, many have expired in favor of returning to the status quo.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 72

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. And, for those getting hyped by blockchain in education, my take on some of the magical thinking underlying the promise of blockchain for education. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. And, for those getting hyped by blockchain in education, my take on some of the magical thinking underlying the promise of blockchain for education. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare by the pandemic. Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. Teaching experience. history by fall 2022.

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Education Digital Divide Policies Common Core 217

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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.) 3D Printing.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Certainly in the 1990s , when E-rate was introduced, its goal was to address this very issue – “the digital divide.”

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