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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. Students had to study the US map, come up with questions, and use their critical thinking skills to try and guess where in the US the other school was from.

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

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 Doubts about whether internet filters protect teenagers online | University of Oxford → A new study casts doubt on whether such technologies shield young teenagers after finding no link between homes with internet filters and the likelihood of the teenagers in those households being better protected.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Bible study, I’m guessing. This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

’” – “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on the #RealCollege conference on food insecurity on college campuses. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ Online Trackers Help Promote Better Sleep in Indiana U Staff Study,” says Campus Technology. “‘I chose abuse, because it seemed safer.’”

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Education Technology's Inequalities

Hack Education

Charter schools, according to a study based on this OCR data, have an even higher rate of suspending Black students and students with disabilities. ” While new technologies are spreading rapidly, the “digital dividends – growth, jobs and services – have lagged behind.” Black students are 1.9

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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, The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. Um, they do.)

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