Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues.

EdTech 60

EdTech Robotics Maker Movement Conference 60

Marketplace K-12

JULY 5, 2016

The findings, unveiled in Denver at the annual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education , come from an exclusive, not-statistically-representative survey of roughly 700 teachers. What District Leaders Really Want From Personalized Learning. –Eric Risberg/AP-File.

Survey 66

Survey Analysis Digital Divide Report 66

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. million seed round to build a learning management system modeled after WhatsApp and Slack. Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies.

Kaplan 96

Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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.

Digital Divide 93

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 93

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145