The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

She's recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital Innovator, served as president of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018, authored many books, The Canva Classroom, the Quiver Classroom, Teaching Land and a Barker Town. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

The baby holds her smartphone, clicking, and Maria asks what I’m working on as she sees me typing obsessively on my laptop. I have said it before, CSEd is a new human right that should be accessible to all students, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, and universal access inevitably closes the digital divide.

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Digital Divide STEM Game-Based Learning Training 40

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. And the digital divide is about more than equipment. Here are five lessons learned so far: 1. “It’s very disappointing as well as concerning.”

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

During an editorial meeting, Dyer suggested building an app that would decode some of the propositions into language young people (or adults, for that matter) can understand. In it, Goodman sheds light on how tough it is to stay on top of coursework without a computer at home—even though she has a smartphone with internet access.

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Social Media Digital Divide Smartphone Analysis 41

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Lower-income Americans still lag in tech adoption | Pew Research Center → Even as many aspects of the digital divide have narrowed over time, the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. And in many urban communities, broadband access is plentiful but unaffordable to families struggling to make ends meet.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 25, 2017 Lower-income Americans still lag in tech adoption | Pew Research Center → Even as many aspects of the digital divide have narrowed over time, the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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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. Schools will look for educational solutions that meet the unique needs of their diverse student populations, not one-size-fits all options.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital equity thinks of access beyond mainstream solutions and meets learners and their communities where they are, providing supports and solutions that complement their current realities. Meet Maria. How do we ensure that Maria and others like her don’t have to wait ten years to engage in the digital world?

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Accessibility 163

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

“This issue constitutes a new civil right: the right to digital equity,” concluded a June 2017 report on the “homework gap” from the Consortium for School Networking. Related: Many low-income families get on the Internet with smartphones or tablets. That matters. Here’s why. We’re looking at a public asset, assigned to do public good.

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