eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Pearson Mudhol, High School Student, Meridian World School, Round Rock, Texas Let’s be candid: the education headlines from 2023 were bleak.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks.

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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, Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Contrasting community college takes: a Pearson op-ed in Edsurge versus pretty much anything “ Dean Dad ” writes. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” “Harvard Finds That DreamBox Learning Improves Math Test Scores,” according to Edsurge.

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