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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

Edsurge

One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. When combined with state-of-the-art cloud technology, it is also a secure, effective way to share customized digital content with students.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

Edsurge

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

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What the flip?

Learning with 'e's

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.

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5 Ways to Flip Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

You kow, we haven’t closed that digital divide quite yet. I can use that information to gauge how I’m using videos in the classroom. As the producer of HipHughes History, he was recognized in 2012 by YouTube and Khan Academy with a YouTube Edu Guru Award. And the partial flip or the in class flip. Vicki: Yeah.

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After a Hurricane, Earthquakes and a Pandemic, Teaching in Puerto Rico is an Act of Resilience

Edsurge

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. There was a lot of communication between teacher and student—information flowed.”

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Furthermore, adaptive learning platforms, like Khan Academy and Duolingo, cater to individual student needs, offering personalized learning paths and immediate feedback. One popular technology tool for K-12 learning is Khan Academy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Information is power. Um, they do.) Course Signals. The TED Talk.

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