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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

Edsurge

Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. Lauren Lichtman Head of Strategy & Partnerships Learning Equality Learning Equality offers educational opportunities for the 2.6

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Technology overuse may be the new digital divide

The Hechinger Report

For years policymakers have fretted about the “digital divide,” that poor students are less likely to have computers and high-speed internet at home than rich students. Higher income and better educated parents often control and monitor what their kids watch online. They need exercise and free play.

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Summer Reading Online

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are a list of sites that offer digital books for kids to adults: Bookopolis Bookopolis is a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 7-12. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. Most books are only available through the website or a link to the website.

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13 Websites That Provide Lots of Digital Books for Summer Reading

Ask a Tech Teacher

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Open Library.

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Partnering Literacy and Technology to Improve One School

Digital Promise

We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. 1 Further, there’s a second level digital divide 2 that’s emerging in the classroom.

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

I remember the 1990's when search began and everyone bemoaned how kids wouldn't think and how it was the end of education as we know it. Now, we have schools again thinking this is the end of education as we know it. However, it is a genesis of an educational redefinition. What is Web 3.0? Really, what is it?

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Millions of Students Are Still Without WiFi and Tech—Why Haven’t Policymakers Stepped Up?

Edsurge

California Department of Education, which charges that schools in the state are violating the constitutional rights of children of color by not providing adequate distance education, called out state Departments of Education for failing to provide better WiFi options than visiting a local Taco Bell. Cases like 2020’s Cayla J.

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