eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. We also are 1:1 with our devices–our students do take their HP or Lenovo laptops home. I believe the earlier we start with our students at the elementary level, they’ll become more proficient as they progress onto the secondary level.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Accessibility 124

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Do you know that feeling when you are told your questions about student privacy are unfounded by a representative of a company that earns 86% of its total revenue from advertising? But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Puzzling out TSA's laptop travel ban | CNN → Says Bruce Schneier: "In the end, national security measures based on secret information require us to trust the government. The new laptop ban highlights this mistrust." This is ALSO true for edtech.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Puzzling out TSA's laptop travel ban | CNN → Says Bruce Schneier: "In the end, national security measures based on secret information require us to trust the government. The new laptop ban highlights this mistrust." This is ALSO true for edtech.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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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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