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29 K-12 edtech predictions for 2021

eSchool News

There is also a growing need for quality SEL data to ensure that educators are serving students’ SEL needs. Teachers will continue to embrace AI for analyzing classroom data and grading tools. AI offers insights and analysis of the effectiveness of their instruction and its outcome. Jeff Rubenstein, VP Product Strategy, Kaltura.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Three Key Steps Districts Should Take in Addressing Unfinished Learning

Insight Education Group

As you begin to identify ways to support students in your schools or district, these solutions must be grounded in data and evidence of success. The research and data collected will ensure that schools and district solutions do not exacerbate pre-existing inequities. Tie solutions into other goals or metrics.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

edWeb.net

By providing these examples of state leadership to support technology in education, though, states can work towards bridging the digital divide. The management of such projects includes coordinating data collection from all states, supervising consultants and staff, ensuring member input and supervising the publishing process.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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Report: 41 percent of schools are under-connected

eSchool News

. “Internet access is no longer an afterthought in education; instead high-speed broadband and wi-fi are now a vital component of K-12 school infrastructure, there is an increased emphasis on digital learning,” according to the report. Even fewer schools have met the long-term goal of 1 Gbps/1,000 users.

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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

Edsurge

That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.