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5 edtech opportunities that will emerge in 2022

eSchool News

The problems we’ve experienced educating students who are learning at home, either full time or in a part time model, spotlight needed improvements (particularly with equity of access) and spark new ways of thinking. . about how they had adapted to learning, teaching, and technology in general since the pandemic started.

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What school librarians make (revisited)

NeverEndingSearch

Let me start by reframing the words of a former, well-known political advisor, It’s equity, stupid. It’s equity of access. And it’s equity of experience. Forgive me if I, perhaps rudely, again remix the words of that political analyst: “It’s about equity, stupid.”

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DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable

eSchool News

Department of Education’s recent edtech plans] discussed active vs. passive consumption of technology. What’s fascinating, when you look at it, is students of marginalized subgroups–when we give them technology to use, we give them technology that is passive consumption.

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Esports Scholarships Are Growing. Do They Leave Some Students Behind?

Edsurge

The technology barriers to playing an esport are lower than ever and titles are increasingly available on laptops, tablets and even phones. With the reduction of technology barriers, cultural barriers have become more apparent. Schools are just as vulnerable to this access gap as well.

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The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning

Doug Levin

I have been critical of the treatment of technology in both the 2015 and 2016 Education Next back-to-school polls for a variety of reasons, including sloppiness in reporting, bias, and lack of relevance to education policy and practice considerations.