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Which Remote Learning Tools Will Teachers Bring Back In Person?

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The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. featured_content_1%%.

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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, Google Reader. Um, they do.) The TED Talk.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” Oh VR promises.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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And speaking of copyrighting a language of a warlike people, the Oracle v Google case had its closing arguments this week. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Microsoft and Apple are two. Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. The Common Core. Perhaps finance has exacerbated the problem by insisting on the generic industrial term “technology” as a synonym for computing. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.