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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Subscribe today!

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Colleges Are Providing Tech to Students to Shrink the Digital Divide

Edsurge

But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digital divide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. And patching the gash between the technology haves and have-nots might require a more substantial remedy than a band-aid.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This trend follows the pattern of other public interest phenomena.

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What keeps edtech leaders up at night?

eSchool News

If the results from today’s release of the 2023 State Ed Tech Trends Repor t are any indication, it’s long and complicated. This emphasizes the digital divide’s persistent impact on education. How is your district to-do list looking?

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Close the Digital Learning Gap: How One District Tackled Tech Disparity in the Classroom

Edsurge

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. How do you combat this trend? District leaders knew that something had to change, and it needed to happen fast. So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born.

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What Keeps Edtech Leaders Up At Night?

eSchool News

If the results from today’s release of the 2023 State Ed Tech Trends Repor t are any indication, it’s long and complicated. This emphasizes the digital divide’s persistent impact on education. How is your district to-do list looking?

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

The metaverse is most commonly associated with extended reality technology (virtual reality and augmented reality), as well as with social media capabilities and the use of digital avatars controlled by users. Additionally, the use of avatars within the metaverse delivers something akin to student-centered learning.

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