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How Librarians Continue Their Work Digitally Even as Coronavirus Closes Libraries

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To get a sense of what the widespread closure of libraries could mean, and hear some creative ways libraries are reaching out digitally, we talked with Jessamyn West, an educational technologist who runs the librarian.net blog and is author of "Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide."

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Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program

EdTech Magazine

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes.

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Equity Isn’t Just About Technology. It’s About Supporting Students and Families.

Edsurge

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. Brown : If we’re creating Google Docs, we could share those out. I was so happy today.

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Which Remote Learning Tools Will Teachers Bring Back In Person?

Graphite Blog

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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Celly Launches New Service and Android App for Building Mobile Social Networks

Educational Technology Guy

There is a full web console to control and monitor things and you can either create a Celly login or login with Facebook or Twitter. The company also announced today availability of the Celly Android App for free download on Google Play. “We There are also many more features such as media links, notes and more.

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14 Tips For Helping Students With Limited Internet Have Distance Learning

MindShift

While there are plenty of best practice guides available for online learning, strategies for bridging the digital divide are scarce. . Check-in via Google Forms . You can also use a Google Form to ask students how they’re feeling and what support they need to succeed. . Schools can create a Google Drive.

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Best Practices with Mobile Tech: #adjunctchat Tuesday, July 15

Connecting 2 the World

And new mobile technologies allow for more natural conversation through facetime, skype, or google hangouts. Social networking sites such as facebook or linkedin allows faculty to maintain that relationship which can be a reciprocal relationship for graduate school and employment.