The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Related: ‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school. Until in-person learning can fully resume, family members are the only adults who regularly work with students on distance learning assignments.

Education 130

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Leaders will be looking for new ways to streamline observation to ensure teachers feel supported, connected with colleagues, and aligned on how to have the most impact with students. –will be refined and these ideas will become more established practices integrated into in-person learning. temperature, lighting).

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. Sustaining lessons learned. Robinson says.

Learning 141

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2023

Third, digital technology used by young adolescents should incorporate the best available evidence on how to support and protect the well-being of middle-school-aged youth. Digital technology companies should partner with researchers to perform ongoing safety monitoring and identify new potential areas of harm.

Smartphone 79

Smartphone Social Media Learning Digital Divide 79

Education Superhighway

APRIL 10, 2019

Seven years ago, a wide-scale digital learning conference was unheard of because the majority of school districts across the country weren’t equipped with the infrastructure or technology to implement a robust digital curriculum.

Digital Learning 65

Digital Learning Conference Blended Learning Digital Divide 65

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

When we started thinking about how to support schools working to close the Digital Learning Gap , we knew we wanted school leaders to feel just as confident and prepared as athletes ready for a race. Distribute devices at a celebratory event that is focused on learning, empowerment, and shared responsibility.

Digital Divide 96

Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility Mobility 96

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” Enter personalized learning (PL)."

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

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. Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences.

Trends 144

Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

During the 2015-16 school year, I visited schools across the nation to see how technology can transform teaching and learning. The “digital divide” is still very real. what makes the difference between using edtech to supplement the classroom experience and using it to transform learning?

EdTech 60

EdTech Classroom Digital Divide Data 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. Read more about the Digital Divide. Photo: Chris Berdik. And that’s what we should be setting our kids up for.”.

Broadband 90

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

EdTech 60

EdTech Robotics Maker Movement Conference 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. It was about, ‘How will we do it?’ ”. Inequity looms large.

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, educators across the country and around the world have been tasked with shifting to emergency remote teaching—a move from in-person to remote classes made necessary by pressing circumstances. Butash is right in pointing out the risks involved in this quick shift to using digital technologies.

Digital Divide 211

Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 211

MindShift

JUNE 9, 2021

Many schools engaged with new learning and accessibility tools they didn’t have the bandwidth or funding to try during in-person learning. And it’s a matter of teaching them how to use the tools,” Parkinson said. . This creativity will be an asset in higher education and in the workforce, Conway said. .

Technology 48

Technology Classroom Software Accessibility 48

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. Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Doing so also runs the risk of furthering the digital divide between those who have and can afford another piece of expensive technology and those who don’t, Platt added. In a policy brief earlier this year, she explored how to bring the best educational practices into the metaverse as it’s being created.

Education 126

Education Digital Divide EdTech Company 126

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. Tagged on: March 17, 2017 Problems with Personalized Learning | dy/dan → Dan Meyer says, "This isn’t good instruction.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Students must be proficient in navigating digital tools, critically evaluating online information, and using technology responsibly. Trends in K-12 education in 2023 will continue into 2024, most notably immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and online and hybrid learning.

Trends 115

Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 115

The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Don''t Hate the Hashtag: A Social Media Revolution for School Librarians Having a web presence, keeping hip with cultural literacy, transliteracy, and building strong personal learning networks is not just an extra burden, but a necessity for the modern teacher librarian. Those who know how to validate soft informationvs.

Social Media 41

Social Media Wiki Resources Digital Divide 41

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

How to know which is which? Both these e-learning conferences, along with her other events related to education, gather together thousands of people annually to exchange ideas and make schools across the world a better place for teaching and learning. Edtech is always changing. Edtech trends come and go. Rafranz Davis.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Trends Microsoft 150

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Challenges Current tech practices in schools do not support the demand for personalized learning. Digital media literacy continues to rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. Many activities related to learning and education take place outside walls of classroom. Now we have an "App Gap".

BYOD 60

BYOD Poll Everywhere Mobility Laptops 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. Vrain Valley Schools 2021 and 2022 were the years of urgency and near-term decisions to ensure learning continued through the pandemic. And phonics—and all foundational reading skills—are very important.

EdTech 72

EdTech Learning Industry Data 72

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

EdTech 119

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 119

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

Digital Divide 93

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 93

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

Digital Divide 218

Digital Divide How To Learning Broadband 218

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

And in Edsurge, Amber Oliver and Michael Horn write , “Without the Right Curriculum , Personalized Learning Is Just Another Fad.” More on the Gates Foundation changes [in Education Week](With Latest Education Investments, Gates Pivots Again) and in Chalkbeat and on my personal blog. .”

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

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.”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145