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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. Each week I post a new question that our connected teachers have posted on a shared Google Doc and the students record a video explaining how to solve the problem.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

“I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 18, 2017 G Suite for Education Now Open for Personal Google Accounts, Outside Domains | Campus Technology → Raises privacy questions. " says Google Family Link manager Saurabh Sharma.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. The AI LAB is designed to allow students to work in different stations such as: Humanoid Robotics, Industry 4.0,

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

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. 00;11;23;22 – 00;11;32;11 Dan Fitzpatrick It's going to be huge.

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Deep learning

Learning with 'e's

She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. This week I read an article that documented the recent partnership between futurist Ray Kurzweil and Google''s Larry Page. Technology of the future is already here - we just haven''t seen it released on the general public yet.

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Makerspace Starter Kit Updated

The Daring Librarian

One of my AWESOME former 8th graders, Lillian, started a Makey-Makey Made Simple-Simple Crowdsourced Google Doc Tutorial. You an start with just one Sphero Mini : The App-Controlled Robot Ball Photo by: Jenny of The Brick Castle "Little robot. Sphero Mini fits a huge experience into a tiny robot the size of a ping pong ball.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “How Google Protected Andy Rubin , the ‘Father of Android ’ ” “Google could have fired Mr. Rubin and paid him little to nothing on the way out. Enjoy your Google for Education products ! Speaking of Google, “ Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online.