Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

BYOD deepens the digital divide. Even when schools provide for these students — like making them beneficiaries of a BYOD funding program, or letting them check out a device from the school’s library — the digital divide doesn’t disappear completely. Top 10 BYOD concerns: 1.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

While she learned to navigate and understand the value of her library’s network of databases, she knows that many kids don’t even know what a database is. She recognizes the library as a safe space for the individual and as an important space that creates community. See video at 28:40.) I am standing here in privilege.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

“This is an enormous educational equity challenge that can have life-altering consequences for vulnerable students,’’ said Ian Rosenbaum, director of The Education Trust-New York, a nonprofit group that released a host of recommendations for the coming weeks. Some 70 percent of the city’s 1.1

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Common Core Digital Divide Online Learning Groups 138

Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 25, 2022

In year two of the pandemic, Jen’s district shut down all of the libraries within the district and began a virtual school. This current school year is working as a hybrid model allowing Jen to be back in the library again supporting in any way possible. Jen also shares how the digital divide has become more apparent.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind. Application processes vary, based on the state, as do disbursements.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 28, 2013

LILAC was held in the heart of Manchester University , in a well appointed conference centre, where almost 300 library and information professionals gathered for three days to discuss information literacy. A social event in the spectacular surrounds of the iconic John Rylands Library was a fitting conclusion to Day 1.

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Technology BYOD Libraries Gamification 78

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She's recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital Innovator, served as president of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018, authored many books, The Canva Classroom, the Quiver Classroom, Teaching Land and a Barker Town. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Staying Organized and Healthy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

John Harrington, Funds for Learning Among the groups commenting on the issue, both ISTE and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) raised the possibility that digital education providers can pay to deliver their content more quickly, and wondered aloud if the move would deepen the digital divide.

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E-rate Broadband Digital Divide Libraries 85

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. By providing these examples of state leadership to support technology in education, though, states can work towards bridging the digital divide. Most important, CEN has advisory councils made up of their stakeholders.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Elsewhere, teachers hold daily virtual office hours to check on the academic and emotional well-being of students they can no longer meet face to face. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 72

MindShift

JULY 6, 2017

We meet kids where they are, where they’re already engaged with social and interest-driven learning,” said Mimi Ito , a co-founder of Connected Camps and a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on how young people engage with digital media. Accessible across the U.S. LEVELING UP WITH MENTORSHIP.

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STEM Digital Divide Study Game-Based Learning 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. See the Conference Schedule and mark your calendars for presentations by this great group of presenters.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. Last summer, UETN was among the groups that submitted comments to the FCC in support of the whitespace licensing of EBS spectrum.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 85

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. Perhaps more startling, participants from “43 percent of districts said none of their schools meet the broadband goal of 100 Mbps of Internet access per 1,000 students today.”.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. By improving access to district systems and processes, school leaders will be able to better serve and meet the needs and expectations of the families they serve.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. By improving access to district systems and processes, school leaders will be able to better serve and meet the needs and expectations of the families they serve.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

First, districts need to address the digital divide/homework gap in meaningful ways. Another aspect of the digital divide includes teachers. What’s needed to address the digital divide for all is sustainable, dedicated funding that allows districts to meet the needs of the community.

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System Digital Divide E-rate Education 53

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Substitution: Oxford meet Oxford 2.0 For instance, a student may refer to the Oxford online dictionary instead of meandering to the class library and sifting through the pages to find the word “obfuscate.” Tools that help make learning visible allow teachers to scaffold instruction and meet the needs of all of their learners.

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Assessment Educreations Digital Divide Tools 155

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 12, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. This Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference Accessibility System 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 21, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. This Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0 Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0

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Libraries Conference Digital Divide System 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 7, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) next week on Thursday, July 14th, 2022, from 12:00 - 3:00 US Pacific Time. This Library 2.0 This Library 2.0

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Conference Libraries Accessibility System 61

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 17, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. This Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0 Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. They will continue to step up in 2023 to meet the challenge.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2022

Our second Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Urban Librarianship: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities through Innovation, Leadership, and Best Practices ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, July 14th, 2022. This Library 2.0 Please also join this Library 2.0 Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0

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Conference Libraries Digital Divide System 36

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, millions of American students trek to public libraries and fast-food restaurants to get online after school, or they go without — a problem known as the “homework gap.”. Instead, these schools and nonprofits lease their licenses to commercial internet providers for cash (and free accounts) in secret deals.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

MindShift

JULY 10, 2020

Education leaders have said schools may need more than $200 billion in new federal education funding to stop these gaps and meet the new need. Guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls for social distancing, and grouping kids into small pods, to limit the spread of a potential infection.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

who is the highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee, introduced the legislation alongside a group of nine other Democratic co-sponsors in the Senate. The meetings around this legislation began as early as September 2018, according to Christine Fox, deputy executive director of SETDA.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “Influential conservative group: Trump, DeVos should dismantle Education Department and bring God into classrooms.” ” The group in question: the Council for National Policy. Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I mentioned in the previous article in this series that Palmer Luckey, the founder of the VR company Oculus Rift (acquired by Facebook in 2014), had funded an unofficial pro-Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and spreading hateful memes about Hillary Clinton. ” Voter suppression – via Facebook.

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