Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2024
Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that? The challenge facing us right now is ensuring that this access gets to everyone without widening that digital divide.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 26, 2020
Difficult decisions have had to be made regarding grading, making funds available to get technology in the hands of disadvantaged kids, getting school work to kids where the digital divide could not be overcome, and figuring out how to provide professional learning support virtually. Incorporate movement (i.e.,
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Edsurge
JANUARY 12, 2024
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
The CoolCatTeacher
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
You kow, we haven’t closed that digital divide quite yet. Don’t worry about how to do it. How to make exciting videos that students will want to watch. But as we finish up, could you give us a pep talk about how to make exciting video that kids want to watch? And the partial flip or the in class flip.
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 26, 2012
The Khan Academy videos have been hailed as a departure from 'boring old lectures', and I suppose the same could be said for the TED series of videos. Another objection to the flipped classroom is the digital divide. There are several vaunted examples of this. Don't get me wrong, video has its place in education.
Edsurge
MAY 25, 2021
Martínez Moyet, a math teacher at Villa Granada Middle School, located in San Juan, that meant getting creative, asking students to use short lessons and resources on sites like Khan Academy and ThatQuiz.org, and being available at all hours. However, the digital divide has remained.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”
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