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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways.

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The 2 Biggest Barriers To Learning in Modern Schools - Consideration 7

The Innovative Educator

2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet. The negative effects of content filters on Internet access in public libraries and schools are demonstrable and documented. Hertz is not alone in her thinking.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

But we knew that unless we proactively built bridges to ensure everyone could be included in the benefits of new technologies, each cycle of innovation would leave people further behind. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. New technology in the library or for your counselors?

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

But we knew that unless we proactively built bridges to ensure everyone could be included in the benefits of new technologies, each cycle of innovation would leave people further behind. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. New technology in the library or for your counselors?

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