Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Some of those big names include Google Classroom in K-12, Blackboard and Canvas learning management systems in higher ed, and across education the once-obscure video software named Zoom became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both are enhancements and add-ons to PowerPoint or Google Slides, and both work well.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 20, 2022

Pre-pandemic there was an enormous digital divide. That is because the devices provide digital accessibility and translation. Access to the Internet The pandemic no longer allowed elected officials to ignore the digital divide. Normal was a digital divide. Here are five pandemic learning gains.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. For example, in one of our focus groups, we asked teachers to examine the prototype for a tool they could use to evaluate whether and how to use edtech. Ballard understands that better than most.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2020

For example, one of the most frequently repeated benefits of online learning, according to teenagers , has been the flexibility it offers when it comes to time. Frequently soliciting feedback and concerns through tools like Google Forms can help teachers to make curriculum decisions and students to feel like their input is valued.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

I think of Corona-Norco Unified School District, for example, here in California. We started a couple of years ago with a digital equity group to focus on this issue when we started seeing issues related to the digital divide. But access is maybe the first part of the digital divide. Howard : Absolutely.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

With Google's Applied Digital Skills as his foundation, Hicks prioritizes culturally relevant teaching through the vehicle of computer science. As part of our celebration of Black History Month, EdSurge spoke to Hicks about his culturally relevant approach to closing the digital divide. HBCU Google Docs 101 Assignment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. For example, the Roblox Community Fund aims to reach 100 million students by the end of this decade and recently opened a $10 million fund for developers and educators to build on their platform.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

At the Innovation in Digital Education and Leadership Institute , schools looking to successfully plan a training program should give teachers plenty of time to work with the tech, stick with a few specific initiatives and have a clear vision educators will be able to follow. . Think About Device Use Outside of the Classroom.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Check out the following tools to make that happen: Google Calendar Appointments. Google Forms ( here's an example ) Sign Up Genius (free basic account) 2. After all, the digital divide remains a big issue across the country, and students may be participating in distance learning from wireless hot spots.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

New 5G capabilities will come online, bringing easier, faster, anywhere, anytime connectivity to computing devices for K-12 and other industries like healthcare as they begin to augment traditional wireless solutions and help bridge the digital divide. New tools are needed in cybersecurity to fight AI attacks with AI protection.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. featured_content_1%%.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. Consider online conferencing software such a Zoom, Google Hangout, and Go To Meeting.

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Digital Divide LMS Blended Learning Survey 217

Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 25, 2022

It seems that many teachers have begun using more digital tools in their in-person instruction as well. Jen shares how she feels that teachers are utilizing digital tools in a way that now goes beyond substituting paper for computer. . Jen also shares how the digital divide has become more apparent. She has an M.Ed.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, it’s easy to find this free and open ebook on HyFlex co-edited by Brian Beatty, who coined the term, did important work on it, and is unnamed in Schaberg’s piece. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole. I also enjoyed the DeLillo passage.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digital divide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

For both students and teachers, online learning has come with a lot of challenges, from the digital divide and technology access to mental health impacts , or a lack of essential school and community supports. Google Doc handout. See Google's cookie information for details.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The examples of assignments you receive that require internet access are frequent and daunting: Explain and evaluate “fake news.” Related: New documentary explores ‘the digital divide’. These assignments, like most made by your teachers, must be emailed or dropped into your teacher’s cloud-based Google classroom by 11 p.m.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

D-ID – Digital people text to video Prof Jim – AI text to video to add to lessons Speaker Bios as Submitted Dan Fitzpatrick Dan Fitzpatrick is the author of The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K. She understood metaphor.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

We already have access to a lot of the tech, and maintain some of it in house: campus hosted or leased LMS, document hosting (Google Apps, Office 365), email, some video solution (Elluminate, Connect, Shindig, Zoom, etc). Networked hardware is fairly widespread, if unevenly. Me this morning after voting, back in my office.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2012

The Digital Edge - Watkins is trying to understand role of digital media in lives of kids on the margins of digital access - second language homes, low socioeco environments, etc? Was inspired by the concept of digital divide - technology rich vs. technology poor. digital divide digital literacy sxswedu'

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

How to homeschool” is trending on Google. LA Unified, for example, plans on teaching students remotely by partnering with local television stations. The rapidly spreading coronavirus is instantly changing the way education is delivered, as school and home become the same place. million kids already home-schooled by choice.

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Common Core Digital Divide Online Learning Groups 139

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 3, 2023

Every verbal request to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Google are dependent on AI, as are many of the chatbots that pop up when navigating websites. A few of the many use case examples of generative AI in education include: Generate questions based on a student’s current level of understanding or achievement.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2020

While there are plenty of best practice guides available for online learning, strategies for bridging the digital divide are scarce. . For example, to qualify for Comcast Internet Essentials program, which provides affordable Internet ($9.95/month) Check-in via Google Forms . Schools can create a Google Drive.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 2, 2013

There are examples of how such cyborg existence might come about. Recently, demonstrations of Google Glass , eyewear that connects you via augmented reality software and gestural control to information beyond your normal visual experience, and Muse , a brain-wave sensing headband, have veered us in the direction of cyborg experience.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 14, 2021

There are some impersonals forces in history which no one can escape from, For example today people ask you for the mobile phone number for identity. But look at how a state like Kerala overcame the problem of digital divide during the lockdown. For example the primary school children learn to clean toilets in school in Japan.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The so-called digital divide widens as soon as their students walk out the door. (To What if we told you that a tire shop in Las Vegas was standing at the front lines of the battle to close the digital divide? Google Maps allows you to create and save a map that you can print out or embed on your website.

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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. She received her first response on the morning of April 9 and opened it immediately.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

Gestural computing for example, has been with us for a few years in the guise of games consoles such as the 360 Kinnect system manufactured by Microsoft. This week I read an article that documented the recent partnership between futurist Ray Kurzweil and Google''s Larry Page. Unported License.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) divides up the spectrum into allowable uses, such as for TV, radio, satellites and mobile data.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. The center’s database is filled with examples of how districts are trying to keep learning going from a distance. One teacher uses Zoom, another uses Google Hangouts and a third uses something else,” he said. Inequity looms large.

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Connecting 2 the World

JULY 14, 2014

And new mobile technologies allow for more natural conversation through facetime, skype, or google hangouts. For example, there are different designs for smartphone use, tablets, and laptops. I''ll try to put up some links of examples I''ve used in my classes. Smartphones require a different format than computer based content.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

To help her students better connect to the material, she also asked them to draw comic strips about microaggressions they faced in their own lives—being left out of a game for not speaking English fluently, for example. The most obvious addition to the plan is its focus on the “digital-use divide.”

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 3, 2020

We already have access to a lot of the tech, and maintain some of it in house: campus hosted or leased LMS, document hosting (Google Apps, Office 365), email, some video solution (Elluminate, Connect, Shindig, Zoom, etc). Networked hardware is fairly widespread, if unevenly. Me this morning after voting, back in my office.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 15, 2011

This conversation will consist of viable, creative, meaningful, and daring products that demonstrate information mastery, go beyond the regular research report and span the digital divide. On this second blog posting in one day (assuredly a first!) Want to teach this lesson with your kids?

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Privacy and Student Data During these pressing circumstances, many educators are curating and sharing digital tools, strategies, and tips for remote teaching with their networks. With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing.

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Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 216

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 2, 2012

What changes are they making that bring them into the digital age, and enable them to compete with current advances in technology? Firstly, libraries offer specialised search services which go beyond the simple searches you can perform on Google or other search engines. Publications such as Kelly et al's Library 2.0 social media.

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