eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Take the guesswork out of new classroom tools and make sure that your district runs an organized and thorough pilot. Before introducing new devices or software into your district, make sure that you’ve identified clear, actionable goals for your pilot program. Set your goals early on.

Technology 52

Technology Classroom iPad EdTech 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Administrators at Dorchester School District Two in suburban Summerville, South Carolina, were well aware of the digital divide when they decided to give students both paper and online resources after shuttering schools because of coronavirus. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour.

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Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

EdTech 67

EdTech Learning Industry Data 67

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. COVID forced teachers and students to rely on digital learning more than ever, but they came away with different lessons from the experience.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 106

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s the present—except at the significant percentage of schools without reliable high-speed internet. A teacher at an elementary school in a Boston suburb leads students through a story creation session using Pixie.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. Look for Part 2 of this post soon, with tech tools for PBL in a blended learning environment. How do teachers and students learn about and employ these tools? What other tools are needed to compliment the LMS?

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

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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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2024

It plans to evaluate students on their ability to use AI tools and to recognize AI-generated information. Many schools still use paper products and struggle with spotty broadband and limited digital tools, she said: The digital divide is “very much part of this conversation.”

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Assessment Digital Divide Pearson Broadband 120

eSpark

DECEMBER 17, 2015

By following these 10 tips, you can take the guesswork out of new classroom tools and make sure that your district runs an organized and thorough pilot. Before introducing new devices or software into your district, make sure that you’ve identified clear, actionable goals for your pilot program. Set your goals early on.

Technology 40

Technology iPad eBook Blended Learning 40

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

As the ed-tech scene has exploded in recent years, most teachers can find apps, tools and resources for nearly every grade level, subject area and skill imaginable. But tools for ELL students and their teachers often seem to be missing. This raises an important question: Why? The Complexities of Teaching ELLs.

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Industry Tools Digital Divide Resources 28

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. Kids talking to kids. It’s tough.

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Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

And their cash-strapped school district has struggled to provide them with even the most basic digital tools. She uses a software program popular among architects and designers. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40