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K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship

EdTech Magazine

is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens. JCPS relies on its Google Workspace… Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky.,

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Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

Is there a digital divide in our schools? Before we get into the importance of the digital divide in schools, what is the digital divide? A digital divide is a gap between different demographics and regions in the world that have access to technology and those who doesn’t.

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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. Each week I post a new question that our connected teachers have posted on a shared Google Doc and the students record a video explaining how to solve the problem.

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12 Websites for Digital Books Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Books can be read online or via iOS, Android, Google Play, and Amazon. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide. If a child cannot read a word, s/he can click it to hear it spoken aloud.

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30 Ideas To  Consider When Implementing School Online and Offline During The Coronavirus

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. Consider online conferencing software such a Zoom, Google Hangout, and Go To Meeting.

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Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]

Neo LMS

BYOD deepens the digital divide. Even when schools provide for these students — like making them beneficiaries of a BYOD funding program, or letting them check out a device from the school’s library — the digital divide doesn’t disappear completely. Top 10 BYOD concerns: 1.

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What is Generative AI and Why is it Important to Educators?

Lightspeed Systems

Every verbal request to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google are dependent on AI, as are many of the chatbots that pop up when navigating websites. Administrators, teachers and students alike will require advanced levels of media literacy and digital citizenship to identify incorrectly used AI-generated content.