article thumbnail

How Asynchronous Tech Can Bridge the Digital Divide

eSchool News

So it is when discussing the idea of digital equity. Reality check: A 2021 report from Common Sense Media found that 15 to 16 million K-12 public school students in the U.S. Every student deserves the right to high-bandwidth, solid-state, always-on access to the Internet, right?

article thumbnail

Summer Reading Online

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface.

eBook 367
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. RAZ Kids includes hundreds of K-5 interactive, animated leveled ebooks spanning twenty-seven levels of reading skill. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

Libraries 470
article thumbnail

12 Websites for Digital Books Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. RAZ Kids includes hundreds of K-5 interactive, animated leveled ebooks spanning twenty-seven levels of reading skill. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

Libraries 365
article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. RAZ Kids includes hundreds of K-5 interactive, animated leveled ebooks spanning twenty-seven levels of reading skill. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

Libraries 124
article thumbnail

How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

Digital book loans have skyrocketed, with children’s e-book checkouts more than doubling since the COVID-19 closures began, according to a report from NPR. Louis, Missouri, kids, the diverse and wide-ranging menu of summer camp offerings provided by the St. Louis Public Library have moved completely online.