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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

Some of these are: different approaches to teaching adapted to students’ needs, developed ICT skills, professional development for teachers, attempts to bridge the digital divide, improvement of resource accessibility, funding and curriculum changes. Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills.

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Why I’m optimistic about bridging the digital divide

eSchool News

Related content: When the digital divide is made worse by a pandemic. Despite many efforts to close the digital divide, not all students have equal access to the proper devices and connectivity needed to continue their education. million U.S. The need to address this inequality has a new urgency.

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Equitable access to AI in classrooms is a problem–the solution is professional learning

eSchool News

Key points: Rapid AI adoption in well-resourced classrooms is deepening the digital divide How much AI is too much? Most parents know AI will be crucial to their children’s future For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Generative AI is transforming the nature of work in many fields.

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Change Needed Today to Prepare for Tomorrow

A Principal's Reflections

Here are some highlights and areas of focus for this year’s event: Closing the achievement gap and digital divide – Teams from model districts and schools will present proven pedagogical and leadership strategies on how they accomplished this in challenging times. There will even be a special Future Ready Schools strand.

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Student engagement requires more than edtech tools

eSchool News

During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. Just because it’s digital doesn’t mean it’s any good,” Murray said.

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Balancing sustainability and innovation in education

eSchool News

From an infrastructure standpoint, that means eliminating the digital divides that exist within our own campus. To remedy this, we are building a future-ready wide area network (WAN) that can scale with user demand to deliver robust and reliable connectivity campus-wide.

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This Program Is Empowering the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers

Edsurge

Yang: We were first prompted to address concerns over the digital divide. And we want to close the digital divide. This goes hand-in-hand with the concept of future readiness. EdSurge: What inspired the creation of CoolThink@JC? We want to close the wealth gap.