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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

Perhaps the most concerning survey result is that more than half of teachers (57 percent) say they do not feel prepared to facilitate remote and online learning. In some cases, immense challenges such as digital equity and limited parental support at home have had to be addressed and overcome. My favorites at bit.ly and tinyurl.

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The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

While students ultimately may go back to in-person learning, remote learning will remain a possibility for suspended students “whenever feasible,” he says. Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. Robinson says. With JumpStart, says Ms. Millions of students still face access issues. Everybody needs a check-in.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Read more about the Digital Divide. Photo: Michael Craddock. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Photo: Chris Berdik.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. with an emphasis on the what of deeper learning."

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AI can disrupt racial inequity in schools, or make it much worse

The Hechinger Report

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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, Um, they do.) Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck.

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