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Sponsored post Bridging the digitaldivide is a monumental task. Verizon is not only working to increase access to close the digitaldivide, but they are also providing critical support to improve learning. There are also learning outcomes aligned to CommonCore, ISTE, and Next Generation Science Standards.
The Khan Academy site now contains over 3000 videos mapped to the CommonCore and associated assessments that allow learners to practice and reinforce skills acquired through the videos. As the site increased in popularity it caught the eye of Bill Gates and Google with an end result being over 4 million in funding. And they do.
What Parents Need to Know About the CommonCore and How They Can Help Their Children The CommonCore is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating commoncore standards in grades K-12. assessments CommonCore computers content critical thinking knowledge NON-FICTION PARCC parents skills vocabulary'
In the meantime, remote workers who are parents are fretting over how they’ll have time to oversee lessons and keep their children on top of CommonCore math. A list of homeschooling activities organized by teacher Jamie Matus (Photo by Jamie Matus). Working parents wonder how they’ll arrange childcare so they don’t lose their jobs.
The digitaldivide between rich and poor students isn’t what it used to be. As more devices find their way into homes, screen time across the socioeconomic spectrum is growing. But some more affluent parents are starting to pull back, setting stricter limits on device use both in and out of the classroom.
The coronavirus pandemic has come with specific challenges for teachers: Keeping students engaged during hybrid or fully remote learning, addressing systemic inequity and the digitaldivide, and coping with days of seemingly endless multitasking are just a few among so many other obstacles.
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Permissive website access at school allows students who don’t have home Internet access to find essential resources for their personal and educational development, narrowing the digitaldivide that these students already may be experiencing. Linked to the CommonCore Standards for high school.
AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digitaldivide is at its greatest.
According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On CommonCore Tests Is Costing States Millions.” The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the DigitalDivide.” Via Education Week : “ CommonCore , College Readiness Skills Don’t Match Up, Study Says.”
” Despite all the CommonCore-aligned revisions and all the headlines to the contrary, “ The New SAT Won’t Close the Achievement Gap.” These inequalities are apparent in the longstanding biases that are found in standardized testing, for example, often proxies for “ are you rich ?”
Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digitaldivide – and then walks in the other direction.” Via NPR : “Beyond DeVos , What 5 Key Trump Appointees Could Mean For Schools.” ” (Not on the list but certainly important to watch, particularly for ed-tech, the head of the FCC.).
A focus on tackling the digitaldivide and resource inequities laid bare by the pandemic. This project was one of the biggest investments in remote learning per student in the country this year and closed the digitaldivide in Connecticut.” Teaching experience. An advocate for programs supporting underserved learners.
The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digitaldivide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, CommonCore State Standards. Um, they do.) In 2013, Pearson paid $7.7
Testing, Testing… “ CommonCore testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a DigitalDivide.” ” Go Ducks.
The CommonCore. .” What are the problems that Trump identified on the campaign trail about education? Political correctness. Foreign students. Tax breaks for wealthy universities’ endowments. Government involvement in student loans. In March, the FCC approved a $9.25
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