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Announcing Digital Bridge Project to Support Distance Learning for SFUSD Students

Education Superhighway

We are proud to be a part of this project and look forward to sharing a playbook of lessons learned and practical solutions for addressing the comprehensive connectivity needs of students everywhere.”.

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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

Edsurge

It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. The audience tried to spice up the discussion.

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Digital Equity: It’s More Than Just Student Access

techlearning

The digital divide will not be bridged simply by coding but “by young leaders who have been educated to transform their reality” says Amouzou. We used the blog post for PD for teachers from two different districts,” says Rebecca Kaplan, instructor at CU Boulder. “I

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” .” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Number of Students Applying for Federal Aid Rises 6%, After Several Years of Decline.”

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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, Um, they do.) This product is a piece of s**t,” one doctor said.

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