eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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. As we know, the pandemic led to a proliferation of learning technologies, with districts reporting the use of an average of 2,500 edtech tools in the 2023 EdTech Top 40 research study.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Mic : “On Thursday, Pearson , an education publishing company, apologized for publishing a nursing textbook section that contained racist material about treating patients from different cultural backgrounds who have acute and chronic pain.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with edX , Cengage.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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, The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via The New York Times : “To Close Digital Divide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” BYJU’s has acquired tutoring company Edurite from Pearson. ” Oh look.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” Via Education Week : “ Online Charter Students in Ohio Perform Far Worse Than Peers, Study Finds.” Via NPR : “Beyond DeVos , What 5 Key Trump Appointees Could Mean For Schools.”

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JUNE 10, 2016

” Contrasting community college takes: a Pearson op-ed in Edsurge versus pretty much anything “ Dean Dad ” writes. That doesn’t seem like much money if you’re selling access to your students as a “case study” for a tech company. ” Accreditation and Certification. .” Oh VR promises.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

Charter schools, according to a study based on this OCR data, have an even higher rate of suspending Black students and students with disabilities. Another study conducted by the Department of Education found that using computers widens the “achievement gap” between high-performing and low-performing students.

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