eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

This week, the digital divide is back in focus yet again. But there are some Google Fiber programs that might be well-positioned to tackle the digital divide. Read on for more: 3 Google Fiber programs that could help ease the digital divide. Digital divide hits small towns hard.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

The significant shifts in adapting to remote learning involve how time is used, providing flexible pathways, ensuring there is regular feedback and the purposeful use of digital tools when appropriate. Technology plays a huge role, which is why all efforts need to be made to eliminate the digital divide.

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Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

A recent report shared by Google and KPMG reveals that the education tech industry would cater to about 9.6 Despite claims that technology is negatively affecting learning schedules, edtech is a valuable tool for students. Effective education tools blend into the classroom workflow seamlessly regardless of location. Conclusion.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 1, 2023

From digital classrooms to interactive learning tools, EdTech is not just a fleeting trend but a fundamental change in the educational paradigm. The Digital Classroom Revolution One of the most significant changes brought about by EdTech is the digital classroom.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 20, 2022

Pre-pandemic there was an enormous digital divide. The pivot to a more powerful learning tool is not only better for students, but also more cost effective. That is because the devices provide digital accessibility and translation. Normal was a digital divide. Normal was outdated textbooks and tests.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

For instance, Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization that equips parents to support learning at home, worked with partner organizations to update The Learning Hero Roadmap , a free K-8 interactive guide with videos and tools to help parents support grade-level math and reading as well as social-emotional development.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning. “I This project was supported by Google for Education and involved a number of partners, including our organization, WestEd. Amy Ballard, Ph.D., Ballard understands that better than most.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

They might not realize that we’re actually creating a larger gap and additional inequities for students, especially when you’re trying to push greater use of digital tools that some students just simply don’t have access to. This is our opportunity to support families and students in moving forward in their digital learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

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." I live in Orange County.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

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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Neo LMS

AUGUST 13, 2020

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. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

. “Born connected: The rise of the AI generation”, reveals the app use and technology habits of children aged 4-18, detailing trends in screen time, social media and communications, mobile gaming, online entertainment, learning tools, and for the first time in the report’s history, use of artificial intelligence tools.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Whether you're able to video-chat with parents and guardians or need to rely on good old-fashioned phone calls, now is the time to consider what these important check-ins can look like -- and how to make them a positive communication tool -- during the coronavirus pandemic. So be flexible! Consider regular phone calls as an alternative.

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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

More than 50 years after Don Rawitsch introduced Oregon Trail in his eighth grade class, the debate continues : Can games become a legitimate tool for learning? While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning. That’s still anyone’s guess.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To inspire tomorrow’s brightest minds, educators need today’s best tools. It’s all part of Verizon’s commitment to help close the digital divide. This episode is sponsored by Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. Also, new professional development courses and lesson plans focused on esports and game design.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

The gap in digital equity must be put under the spotlight if schools are going to be able to redress, and address, the yawning “homework” gap. Only 3% of teachers in high-poverty level schools said that their students had the digital tools necessary to complete homework assignments, compared to 52% of teachers in more affluent schools.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. What other tools help you engage with students? All of my books are online, and all of my lessons are digital. So, in 2015, the “ Palmdale Promise ” was born.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 25, 2022

They are much more familiar with the tools they can use and students are more experienced with the tools as well. . Making a quick shift with digital tools is easier for many teachers. It seems that many teachers have begun using more digital tools in their in-person instruction as well. Best Advice.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 3, 2016

This has resulted in disruptive changes to the Model Schools Conference to provide attendees with the skills, tools, strategies, and mindset to initiate sustainable change. What better why to see how making impacts learning than through our own students?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Also note, and ironically so, that due to the extended nature of this episode and that we have four speakers, the AI tools I use to write the transcript had a bit of a meltdown, and I've had to apply a significant amount of human intelligence to the transcript which delayed this episode to Thursday. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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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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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

More and more schools adopt BYOD policies and allow students to bring their own mobile phones, tablets, eBooks, and other devices in the classroom, and use them as tools to enhance learning. BYOD deepens the digital divide. It’s really happening. But this shouldn’t stop schools from giving BYOD at least a chance.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 23, 2012

As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. The video resources and associated services provided for free by Khan Academy are powerful learning tools, if they can be accessed by populations (rural and urban) that need them the most. And they do.

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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. Why were some better than others?

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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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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. However, when misapplied, those very same tools pose significant threats and erode trust. What is Generative AI?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 2, 2013

The argument is that we are becoming increasingly dependent on search engines and other tools, that trivialise knowledge and simplify what we learn. Others, such as George Siemens and Karen Stephenson hold that we store our knowledge with our friends, and that connected peer networks are where learning occurs in the digital age.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The company also announced today availability of the Celly Android App for free download on Google Play. “We Our goal is to build the smallest communication tool that can have the biggest impact on the most scenarios in the shortest amount of time,” said Greg Passmore, co-founder and CTO of Celly. Feature advantages include: ?

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Unfortunately, school closures have meant a step backward for many when it comes to the digital divide. Being a co-teacher in Google Classroom has allowed me to keep that connection with students, as their math specialist. Supporting Students and Families. They know I’m here!”.

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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. . 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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MindShift

JUNE 9, 2021

He could provide grip tools for pencils or guide students’ hands with his own, familiarizing them with the strokes. . One of the tools that we use to build comprehension is repeated readings of the same thing. Offered on both Google Meet and Zoom, closed captioning can have benefits for all students. Accessibility Opportunities.

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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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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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