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Maine’s Statewide Laptop Program Boosts Tech Access, but Digital Divide Persists

EdTech Magazine

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom computers can’t boost student outcomes if educators don’t know how to use them innovatively.

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We're All Digital Citizenship Teachers - Here's the "How To Guide"

The Innovative Educator

School leaders have finally taken more seriously the work of bridging the digital divide. Along with this shift comes the responsibility of ensuring every educator understands the importance of, and knows how to teach, digital citizenship at every grade level. Learn how to get started.

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When a dollar and a dream isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

“With less than 3% of VC funds employing black and Latinx investment professionals, only a small fraction of that sum will find its way to businesses owned or run by people of color,” according to the magazine Fast Company analysis of data compiled by the venture capital database Pitchbook. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital school strategies

Learning with 'e's

A recent interview I did for the New Zealand teachers'' Interface Magazine touched on some of these issues, and here I would like to elaborate on some of the answers I gave. One of the most important digital divides to overcome is the technophobia divide - the wills and the will nots. Unported License.

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

This morning, the May issue of Wired Magazine landed on my doormat, and what did I see inside? Another objection to the flipped classroom is the digital divide. According to the Wired magazine article, 'flipped teaching is essentially a type of tutoring. Does anyone know, or is the term being misused or misrepresented?

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Rally to Restore Philadelphia School Librarians: Responses, reflections, and resources

NeverEndingSearch

Effective use of these e-resources requires time to learn how to navigate and search each one. In addition, school librarians teach students and faculty alike how to integrate these digital resources into their teaching and learning. He discussed the digital divide with them. He’d worked in that very school.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online. Tech and Learning Magazine e-Learning Resources – Since I am an advisor for the magazine I thought I would include this list of abundant resources. MARCH 30, 2020 · 11:02 PM | EDIT.