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. Second, in response to talent-shortage concerns, schools will place greater emphasis on work-based learning, STEM education, and vocational training programs.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

No software needed! I'll be honest, I'm not really sure how providing device chargers to my students really fits into the Makerspace movement, I think it's important, and here's why. We've discovered that the mix of the digital divide, possible turbulent home lives, and general teenage forgetfulness can result in a loss of power.

Gamification 63

Gamification Robotics Libraries Guidelines 63

User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

They’re teaching a new generation how to repair rather than replace, and if what they’re looking for is not available, to invent it. They call themselves “makers,” and they will figure out how to build whatever you can imagine. ( Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. STEM to STEAM ).

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Maker Movement Education STEM Software 150

User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

They’re teaching a new generation how to repair rather than replace, and if what they’re looking for is not available, to invent it. They call themselves “makers,” and they will figure out how to build whatever you can imagine. ( Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. Focus on STEM and STEAM Education. STEM to STEAM ).

Maker Movement 120

Maker Movement STEM Education Software 120

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. — Laura Fischer , VP of Content Development, Learning A-Z Looking ahead, it is important for educators to help students develop 21st century skills, especially as more industries need STEM-focused employees.

EdTech 73

EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. We will see a continued surge in demand for K-12 digitized operations platforms. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

EdTech 120

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

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 98

Digital Divide System Assessment Robotics 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. But computers are expensive.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) billion by 2025.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145