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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. This lab includes various STEM products, modular seating, and curriculum. Smart transportation, and VR, among others.

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Not all towns are created equal, digitally

The Hechinger Report

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. For many, the so-called digital divide is a daily struggle, adding a sometimes embarrassing and often frustrating layer of complexity to high school life. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. But computers are expensive.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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, Um, they do.) But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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Education Technology's Inequalities

Hack Education

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. ” While new technologies are spreading rapidly, the “digital dividends – growth, jobs and services – have lagged behind.”