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We're Closing the Digital Divide. Now Let's End the Participation Gap.

Edsurge

More specifically, the participation divide refers to the fact that some students are more plugged into an internet culture around creating, connecting with others and giving and receiving feedback around their work. Often seen as an “add on” consideration in many districts, digital citizenship needs to be addressed intentionally.

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How Educators Can Empower Students Through Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

Address the digital divide. As thousands of school districts across the country have rolled out remote learning, many have discovered that students have very different sets of resources when it comes to digital education tools. This raises the question: How exactly should schools invest in technology to keep up?

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Based on information systems research, you’ll explore the concept of “technostress” and its triggers, how to spot it in your students, and how it impacts learning. In addition, you’ll explore ways to get families involved and build support systems that empower students to learn. Learn More.

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

Neo LMS

You can’t have a traditional education system (that sometimes feel like it belongs to the dinosaurs era) become a modern educational system overnight. The educational system needs pioneer schools to test the waters of BYOD and share what they find with everyone that wants to follow suit. BYOD deepens the digital divide.

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

Lightspeed Systems

Prompts for other solutions take the form of text, image, video, design, musical notes, or any input that the system processes. Then, of course, the digital divide between students with and without ready access to technology may be destined to widen by generative AI in education, adversely impacting underserved and minority students.

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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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What New Research on Young Kids’ Media Use Means for Teachers

Graphite Blog

Introduce digital citizenship skills early. And with more schools moving to online learning management systems and paperless classrooms, our low-income students who don’t have reliable internet access at home are potentially getting left behind. Share great app recommendations with parents to guide media use at home.