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7 Shifts to Closing the Digital Divide

EdTechTeam

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. They consume social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. By connecting through social media your educators and students can see how the work they do matters.

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How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Kids?

Edsurge

The digital divide between rich and poor students isn’t what it used to be. Now, it's obvious when we look at extreme examples, but just take the case of social media and imagine a child who spends 15 minutes on Instagram. As more devices find their way into homes, screen time across the socioeconomic spectrum is growing.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. And I think we've got a lot of lessons to learn from how we've kind of dealt with social media over the last ten years. 00;11;23;22 – 00;11;32;11 Dan Fitzpatrick It's going to be huge.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. Tagged on: March 16, 2017 Shenzhen Capital Co-leads $29M Round In Chinese Robotics Firm Makeblock | China Money Network → "Recently, we are focusing on educational technology industry.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Sun Sentinel : “Student made social media threat to kill FAU professor, cops say.” ” “As Schools Comb Social Media for Potential Threats, Has Mass Shooting Anxiety Turned Administrators Into the ‘ Internet Police ’?” ” FAU is Florida Atlantic University.

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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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