Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a super cool app that encourages problem-based learning and STEM skills for students. It’s all part of Verizon’s commitment to help close the digital divide. Every year, space agencies, companies, museums, schools, and more hold space education and outreach events to commemorate World Space Week.

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STEM Digital Divide Elementary iPhone 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on expert predictions for edtech. As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 68

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. As a professor of reading and children’s development, specializing in children’s digital tools, I've researched what works and what doesn't when it comes to coaching children to read.

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EdTech Company Digital Divide Trends 174

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital literacy and coding education prepare students for a technology-centric future. Despite these advancements, challenges like the digital divide necessitate attention. The emphasis on digital literacy, coding, and STEM education prepares students for the demands of a technology-driven future.

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Digital Divide Technology Education Future Ready 52

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

This is the edtech industry’s premier financial conversation, packed with more than 4,100 people and 350 CEOs. It celebrates the significant number of women and leaders of color heading up edtech companies. Nudge to event organizers: Time to move recognition of women to center stage, too!) Morning yoga, evening karaoke.

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Kaplan Company EdTech Industry 105

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2022. The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 108

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) The TED Talk.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. We saw hints of this, no doubt, in this year’s US Presidential election, although the malaise is much deeper and broader than one electoral event.

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