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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

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PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

The Hechinger Report

AIR presented early results from its “ National Survey of Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 ” at a virtual session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar on July 22, 2020. This digital divide had enormous consequences for what instruction meant.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. MARCH 30, 2020 · 11:02 PM | EDIT. Welcome to a post that has taken be a while to write.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

the Virginia company at the heart of the operation.” A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” Here’s the EdWeek headline: “ Company Exec. for Ed-Tech Company Testifies in Ala. ” Ugh. ” Education in the Courts.