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But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digitaldivide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. The tablets are theirs to hold onto for their entire undergraduate careers. Loaning the occasional laptop is not a new practice in higher education, but providing them en masse may be.
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Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. This new option under the Verizon Innovative Learning program will provide hotspots to students who need access the most so that their learning never stops.”.
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As students get older and afterschool participation decreases, opportunities to engage in high-quality digitallearning are few and far between for high-school aged students who need it most. These findings support the notion that out-of-school programs can be critical partners in the effort to reduce the digitaldivide.
In its 2016 National Education Technology Plan, the Department of Education emphasizes model approaches to digitallearning. The most obvious addition to the plan is its focus on the “digital-use divide.” Those approaches take fuller advantage of digital media’s potential to change practices in and outside of schools.
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