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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

Edsurge

The nonprofit was founded in response to the global wildfire adoption of its first-generation learning platform, KA Lite , which provided offline access to Khan Academy videos and exercises. Closing global education gaps How is Learning Equality addressing the challenge of the digital divide and the 2.6 Already using Kolibri?

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Generative AI, Chat GPT, and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter So, I’ve spent this week looking at and testing many AI tools. In many ways, exercise is a form of worship for me as I rejoice in being able to walk (and run) pain free again. The integrity gap is going to be a major issue as we move fully into Web 3.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. All one had to do was read the Twitter stream to deduce this. He began his keynote by sharing a video montage of Khan Academy highlights and then presenting some impressive statistics on usage.

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PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

The Hechinger Report

Kindergarteners with diagnosed disabilities were more likely to become frequent online gamers but not texters or users of social media such as Snapchat, Twitter or Facebook. The researchers compared the most frequent users with the children’s earlier kindergarten attributes. Book reading is so important for kids,” he said.

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Addressing the Digital Learning Gap with Effective Educator Coaching

EdTechTeam

However, in other scenarios, students are engaged with lower-level uses of technology such as test preparation, reading static online content, and seemingly endless drill and practice exercises. Karen Cator is President & CEO of Digital Promise. You can follow her on Twitter at @kcator. Cross-posted from Digital Promise

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How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

eSchool News

I think administrators at more schools across the county will lean into non-traditional supports for students including mentoring, behavioral counseling and socialization exercises for students. Displays in the classroom can also integrate with digital signage installed around campus—from the front office to the sports field.

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Education Technology's Inequalities

Hack Education

From the “Digital Divide” to “Digital Redlining” Discussions about education technology (and new digital technologies more generally) were, for many years , framed in terms of the “ digital divide ” – that is, the gap between those who have access to computers and to the Internet and those who do not. .”