Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

It’s a harsh and disastrous reality that is wreaking havoc on families, local economies and the education system. One key problem prevalent in many low-socioeconomic communities around the nation—like San Antonio, which now has the highest poverty rate of the country's 25 largest metro areas —is the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2024

The CoSN Withrow CTO Award recognizes an exceptional district CTO who serves as a true technology champion and whose leadership has been transformative for their school system. She was involved in the Raising Blended Learners Grant and the Math Innovation Zones Grant, as well as initiatives to bridge the digital divide.

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Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

The pandemic highlighted several challenges in the education system , including educational inequalities and performance gaps in countries. The digital divide in accessing learning and teaching tools and large gaps in teacher’s access to digital training are other areas of concern. Conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Chief equity officers in public school districts across the country have one key mission: to help address the inequities in our education system. And they face hurdles withinthe very school systems they serve. What systems and programs do we need to put in place for all students to read and write at grade level?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

She wrote , “Equitable access to digital learning means that every student has a device and access to the internet regardless of location, allowing for critically important connections with teachers and peers, instant feedback on mathematical problem sets, the ability to research, ask questions, find answers and explanations, and so much more.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

College Connect serves any interested student; however, its target population is the district’s most at-promise students, including young people experiencing homelessness and in the foster care system, English learners, and undocumented students. Demonstrated commitment to racial, digital, and educational equity.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child. Digital Divide.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

Difficult decisions have had to be made regarding grading, making funds available to get technology in the hands of disadvantaged kids, getting school work to kids where the digital divide could not be overcome, and figuring out how to provide professional learning support virtually. Here you can find a listing or some great options.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The metaverse and its ability to offer immersive learning could serve as another means of helping both students and teachers to create a successful learning environment that meets contemporary educational standards and prepares students for modern life.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Adaptive learning systems analyze students’ performance and learning patterns, adjusting the curriculum to suit individual needs and learning styles. These tools help educators tailor their teaching methods and content to better meet students’ needs.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

Technology plays a huge role, which is why all efforts need to be made to eliminate the digital divide. Asynchronous learning provides much-needed flexibility that better meets the needs of both students and teachers by relinquishing the familiar rigidity of school. The key, however, is balance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

However, we must continually push systems so that all students are able to be successful in spaces where they have ownership and feel a sense of belonging (identity). Good teachers are finding ways to meet the learning needs of all of these diverse brains within the same classroom. Systems produce what they are designed to produce.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Teacher wellbeing and work-life balance are essential to a sustainable education system. And while the entire system needs to change, you can still help a teacher out. That’s why neglecting this area can lead to a bigger digital divide among students. Read more: Why self-compassion is important for teachers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2016

The digital divide is a reality for three out of four American families, meaning approximately eight million individuals under the age of 18 are living without internet access. As a starting point, other companies must recognize the connection between digital inclusion and business success. The good news?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

Organizations and coalitions including Learning Keeps Going , Tech for Learners , Google , and Digital Promise have also compiled lists of resources from various education organizations as well as available edtech products. Bridging The Digital Divide. And, how are the children? Just fine, we want to say.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Students who have been underserved by a deeply inequitable education system often undergo a remarkable transformation at an HBCU. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. Across the U.S., for example, some 1.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2020

Communities around the country are facing unprecedented challenges that have exposed and exacerbated deep inequities across our society and educational systems. The power of approaches like those of Mindcatcher and CommunityShare isn’t just in the way they meet educator and student needs during challenging times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

I’ve also included courses from this blog post sponsor, Advancement Courses that meet the criteria for each topic. In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. Social-Emotional Learning. We have to relate to educate.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Source (for all charts in article): BrightBytes survey Such findings are not surprising to Baker, who notes that they reaffirm the existence of the “ digital divide ,” or unequal access to technology across different communities and socioeconomic backgrounds. There’s tech support for teachers. For students, not so much.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

With so many gatherings and meetings shifting into the virtual world, the time-honored tradition of family-teacher conferences will also most likely need to be remote this school year. After all, the digital divide remains a big issue across the country, and students may be participating in distance learning from wireless hot spots.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 12, 2016

You can’t have a traditional education system (that sometimes feel like it belongs to the dinosaurs era) become a modern educational system overnight. The educational system needs pioneer schools to test the waters of BYOD and share what they find with everyone that wants to follow suit. BYOD deepens the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

But instead of a deadly hurricane, this year brought another crisis that shut the city’s school system: the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps no school system had a distance learning plan in place that anticipated a shutdown on the scale of the coronavirus closures. This story also appeared in The Huffington Post.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 117

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

And as a person interested in digital equity, I had a chance to connect experts who were national leaders on the digital divide. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but a systemic framework for all of this new learning was not apparent. Amidst all of this energy, though, something seemed to be missing.

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My Island View

MARCH 27, 2020

The consequences of our nationwide quarantine however, may be having a profound positive effect on our education system. In the past, many discussions by several education leaders have sometimes suggested the idea of education reform needing to blow up the current education system in order to affect any real change.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 27, 2017

There is also a concern that BYOD creates digital divides in the classroom between well-resourced students and those from families that simply cannot afford to give their children devices. In the US, concerns also include how the system will comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

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N2Y

MAY 20, 2021

What technological innovations will best meet the unique learning needs of students with disabilities? What can bridge the digital divide within the special education community? How should school principals think about the new funding available to them?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI-powered adaptive learning platforms analyze individual student strengths and weaknesses, tailoring educational content to meet specific needs. Intelligent tutoring systems offer real-time feedback and guidance, promoting a more interactive and effective learning environment.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 10, 2020

They sighted accessibility concerns saying that remote learning couldn’t meet the needs of all students. They chose not to figure out ways to bridge the digital divide for the most vulnerable families and students. We could have been focused on closing the digital divide.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digital divide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles. featured_content_1%%.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

And I think we're probably in the mid-nineties version of AI at the moment, and how it's going to how is going to benefit learning and education as a system ultimately, I guess, is for anybody's guess at the moment. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter. 00;11;23;22 – 00;11;32;11 Dan Fitzpatrick It's going to be huge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Scrooge asks the spirit of his old friend why it’s shackled. “I

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Kajeet Private 5G is designed to meet this demand and support organizations with increased speed to market. The Kajeet Private 5G Network Operations Center (NOC) manages and maintains customers’ private networks 24x7x365 using advanced AIOps and analytics tools and systems to proactively manage the network and optimize performance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

education system. We need to help educators and students better understand the power grid system, how it impacts them and the changes that are coming, including renewables, storage, and electric vehicles. Zoom Meeting hacks, ransomware). – 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more.

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Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

A recent victory for Arkansas’ public school system shows that these collaborations can yield tangible and meaningful results, particularly for rural communities. Tune in to the FCC’s Open Commission Meeting on August 3, 2017. The meeting will address policies aimed to bridge the digital divide.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

C reate s reading academies , a year-round professional development training system based on the science of reading , for all K-3 teachers. . It include s a digital curriculum for full virtual, hybrid or in-class learning environments that districts may use , in full or in part , to customize and meet their needs. .

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