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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out how one-to-one computing programs are boosting digital equity for K–12 students. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read about how K–12 schools are addressing digital equity with curriculum framework. Schools are Dealing with a Widening Homework Gap. Broadband access still is limited in some rural areas.

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. But there’s still a ways to go to hit the FCC’s “longer-term” target of 1 Mbps, which was to kick in by now, for taking advantage of bandwidth-hungry edtech apps. Think lots of nuts-and-bolts, this-should-go-into-a-checklist details punctuated with brief case studies. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

Edsurge

“They're not going to be able to even use the controller with great effect,” says Heather Kirkorian, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the impact of screen media on infants and young children.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. Through my journey in the EdTech world, I have seen first hand the transformative power of educational technology and its vast impact on students learning.

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Exploring different types of web filters for K-12 schools

Hapara

If a school receives E-rate program discounts for Internet access, they need to follow CIPA guidelines, including implementing a web filter. In this case, IT staff set up the filter as a program directly onto each school computer or tablet. Schools must filter or block online access to obscene or harmful images and pornography.

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Educators Want More Mobile Technologies for Classroom Use, Better PD

Marketplace K-12

Mobile technologies in particular have the ability to resonate with and support the instruction of special education students, said Richard E. Teachers can “capitalize on the abilities built into mobile tablets, phones, use talk-to-text, touch screens, and the ability to personalize instruction,” he said. Department Says.

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4 Tips for using accessibility features to promote inclusion

Neo LMS

Read more: 6 Awesome examples of EdTech for the visually impaired student. Although accessibility tools and assistive technology have made their way into all modern devices, studies show that a stigma still exists surrounding these features. Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design. Encourage usage. All in all.