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Responding to COVID-19: How Are the Children?

Digital Promise

As teachers look for supplemental material to send home, they can share this Roadmap with parents via school portals, email, social media platforms, and texting. Bridging The Digital Divide. Across the country, several school districts are diligently working to try and bridge the digital divide as best they can.

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

With that being said, metaverse learning is a relatively new concept and one that many educators are still getting to grips with. At the same time, because the metaverse is also being used in areas like social media and the creation of video games, its use as an educational tool has not necessarily been fully understood by all.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

eSchool News

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. Consider this: 1 in 4 U.S. The result?

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

Hunter and her colleague Rachel Krumenacker at the Chattanooga Public Library in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had filmed the DIY craft on a Zoom call from their respective living rooms. They posted it to the library’s YouTube channel as part of their new summer programming, the majority of which is taking place online due to COVID-19. . “We

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Top 10 BYOD concerns — and how to overcome them [Part 1]

Neo LMS

BYOD deepens the digital divide. Even when schools provide for these students — like making them beneficiaries of a BYOD funding program, or letting them check out a device from the school’s library — the digital divide doesn’t disappear completely. BYOD will distract students from learning.

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Advancing Equity in Education Through Wifi

MIND Research Institute

The so-called digital divide widens as soon as their students walk out the door. (To What if we told you that a tire shop in Las Vegas was standing at the front lines of the battle to close the digital divide? Start with the obvious like public libraries and recreation centers. Schools and Communities Team Up.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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.”

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