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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Teachers there give students many options for how to use different technologies. Students using FUSE — a student-chosen name that is not an acronym — select the learning activities they want to try, including 3D printing, animation and robotics.

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How computer science education bridges the digital divide

eSchool News

The first one is decidedly a ‘platformer’ course, where every student is required to figure out how to build a traditional ‘platform’ game in Construct 3. Digital divide Our computer science courses needed to be accessible to all students, including those without connectivity or a sophisticated device.

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How computer science education bridges the digital divide

eSchool News

The first one is decidedly a ‘platformer’ course, where every student is required to figure out how to build a traditional ‘platform’ game in Construct 3. Digital divide Our computer science courses needed to be accessible to all students, including those without connectivity or a sophisticated device.

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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How do we use, integrate, and engage learning with the newest technology? How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. Our fifth grade used the Wonder Workshop robots for a variety of lessons across the curriculum.

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Celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the NEO Blog

Neo LMS

From gamification to digital citizenship to PD for teachers to classroom robots and everything in between, the 102 posts that have been published on the NEO Blog in the last 12 months covered oh so many subjects related to education technology and e-learning for educational institutions. It was a long year, this year.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

Edsurge

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Brantley about her experiences using McGraw Hill AR , a free app created by McGraw Hill in partnership with Verizon for Verizon Innovative Learning , an educational initiative that seeks to help bridge the digital divide with a goal of providing digital skills training to 10 million students by 2030.

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. We have to take us older-school education people and retrain our way of thinking about how to deliver [instruction]. Teachers need extensive training on how to actively expand and use technologies in their classrooms.