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Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide

EdTech Magazine

Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide. I want to say thank you for your accomplishments and your efforts to close the digital divide,” Bulnes told Allen. ricky.ribeiro. Tue, 05/29/2018 - 23:37.

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 3)

Edsurge

While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. Nearly all of these skills are required for jobs in a digital world with an increasingly distributed workforce. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods.

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ISTE to Charge Businesses for Licensing of Standards, and Announces Microsoft Partnership

Marketplace K-12

Leaders of the International Society for Technology in Education are launching the organization’s first-ever effort to raise revenue through licensing fees tied to companies’ use of the organization’s digital standards, the group’s chief executive officer said Sunday.

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

While there are still challenges associated with the digital divide and access to technology, this gap is shrinking all the time, especially with smartphones widening access to digital content and software. That’s because this allows companies to onboard multiple new recruits and train many employees at the same time.

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What Could Web3 Mean for Education?

Edsurge

The metaverse should probably reference them,” says Patel, who previously held positions at workforce-training companies Thinkful, On Deck and Maven. The phrase that originated in a science-fiction novel refers to an immersive virtual reality that blurs the boundaries between digital and physical spaces. and between the U.S.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? ask Sonia Livingstone, Kjartan Ólafsson and George Maier. wi.us, among other sources."

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Teachers use high and low-tech means to reach English Language Learners during coronavirus crisis

The Hechinger Report

Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper and online resources after shuttering schools because of coronavirus. She received her first response on the morning of April 9 and opened it immediately.