The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Rory Kennedy examines the gaps computer and internet access between wealthy and impoverished schools in her latest documentary, “Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America.”. But that won’t close what has come to be known as “the digital divide.”. How long has the “digital divide” been on your radar?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

. — Laura Fischer , VP of Content Development, Learning A-Z Looking ahead, it is important for educators to help students develop 21st century skills, especially as more industries need STEM-focused employees. The role of schools in providing accessible and equitable education will come into focus.

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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 make changes to provide systematic instruction and stem the bleed of learning loss. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

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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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, There were other flaws too: broken screens on about 1500 of its tablets.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

” The idea that preferred admission equals payment stems from the American ideology that opportunity, especially educational opportunity, is a “fair” form of recompense. Expansion of Bridge International Academies has been controversial, and the Ugandan government ordered all BIA schools there to close their doors.

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