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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

Edsurge

In a way, it’s a shift to recognize another aspect of the digital divide in America: the quality divide when it comes to implementation of edtech, which arises because all this new technology isn’t necessarily being put to the best use in classrooms. It’s a mindset shift we need in education right now,” Jones says.

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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

Neo LMS

Last week we discussed the digital divide , and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms. 59% of teachers feel the digital tools they use frequently are effective.

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Colleges Are Providing Tech to Students to Shrink the Digital Divide

Edsurge

But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digital divide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. One is to prepare students for the additional online courses the system is looking to offer even after the pandemic, to meet student demand for remote options.

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How schools can help students overcome the digital divide

eSchool News

However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digital divide. Addressing these will be critical to ensuring that school districts and digital navigator programs are effective in closing the digital divide for students.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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OPINION: Chief equity officers wear many hats and are needed in school systems now more than ever

The Hechinger Report

I believe there are three mechanisms that district equity leaders and educators can reimagine to advance student equity, whether equity officers’ mission is supported or not: funding, policy design and collaboration. Designing an equitable policy would involve considering broader questions: Why aren’t the children reading at grade level?

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

eSchool News

Good teachers are finding ways to meet the learning needs of all of these diverse brains within the same classroom. Reliability measures the ability for a learning activity to meet its goals. In Equity in Discourse for Mathematics Education: Theories, Practices, and Policies (pp. Retrieved from [link] Gutiérrez, R. Ralabate P.

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