eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

At the end of June, eSpark joined the thousands of district and edtech leaders headed to Denver, CO to meet innovative educators and discuss the current state of technology in schools. Working Towards Equity with Edtech. Over the course of the week, three themes dominated the conversation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Because moving around has been shown to bring many benefits to students, she often designs activities that take her kids outside the classroom, ingeniously folding in the features of her edtech resources. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Department of Education’s recent edtech plans] discussed active vs. passive consumption of technology. And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held. That's a lot of computers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

From gamification to digital citizenship to PD for teachers to classroom robots and everything in between, the 102 posts that have been published on the NEO Blog in the last 12 months covered oh so many subjects related to education technology and e-learning for educational institutions. It was a long year, this year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As we examine current events and issues on technology in the classroom, it helps to take a look at what education looks like in 2024 and where it will go in the future—and there are plenty of edtech updates and K-12 news to track. Edtech is transforming the learning experience for students and educators.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. Speaking of predictions about the future of online education, EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin pens part 2 of his look at Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn ’s prediction that “ by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“What Betsy DeVos means for edtech ,” according to venture capitalist Ryan Craig. Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Union busting , outsourcing , and “ unbundling ,” apparently.

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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, Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, the World Bank issued a report in January arguing that digital technologies – not just robots in factories – stand to widen inequalities as well, “and even hasten the hollowing out of middle-class employment.”

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