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.

Chromebook 118

Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 118

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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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

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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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145