Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Brantley about her experiences using McGraw Hill AR , a free app created by McGraw Hill in partnership with Verizon for Verizon Innovative Learning , an educational initiative that seeks to help bridge the digital divide with a goal of providing digital skills training to 10 million students by 2030.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The digital divide between rich and poor students isn’t what it used to be. As educational technology continues to proliferate, and as today’s careers demand tech-savvy job candidates who already know how to use devices, the argument over the right amount of screen time is getting louder.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

If I took a class on robotics, I could put the actual robot [coursework] on the chain, not the grade. They’re communities of people who share a pot of cryptocurrency and who decide by voting how to spend that money—kind of like a co-op. Instead, what if we focused on the output and performance you’re able to gain?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Dan developed Prep, which is all about how to prep the machine in prompt prompted to get the desired output. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. The math teacher who used student loans to show you how interest worked.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

They’re teaching a new generation how to repair rather than replace, and if what they’re looking for is not available, to invent it. They call themselves “makers,” and they will figure out how to build whatever you can imagine. ( The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ). Local teens’ inventions impress scientists ).

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. That's a lot of computers. It is a massive innovative market with supportive government policies and strong market demand.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The digital divide will not be bridged simply by coding but “by young leaders who have been educated to transform their reality” says Amouzou. Equity is not that everyone knows how to write a loop but that they understand why it matters and how a loop can help people,” says Wybrant.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digital divide — will face greater inequalities if we go too far toward digitizing education without considering how to check the inherent biases of the (mostly white) developers who create AI systems.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

They’re teaching a new generation how to repair rather than replace, and if what they’re looking for is not available, to invent it. They call themselves “makers,” and they will figure out how to build whatever you can imagine. ( The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ). Local teens’ inventions impress scientists ).

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

" Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire. Many want technology firms to do more, but they are divided on how to balance free speech and safety issues online. Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Schools’ information up for sale on darknet?

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

And this creates a digital divide between those who can afford it and those who cannot. We have to take us older-school education people and retrain our way of thinking about how to deliver [instruction]. Teachers need extensive training on how to actively expand and use technologies in their classrooms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Leaders will be looking for new ways to streamline observation to ensure teachers feel supported, connected with colleagues, and aligned on how to have the most impact with students. Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Students are using AI to develop their own future-ready skills and to learn how to navigate an information-rich world. Introducing robotics and coding into the curriculum helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This approach aims to enhance engagement and address diverse learning styles.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots. Think about how this vision will play into state legislatures as they consider merging or closing campuses, or how funders plan their investments, or how presidents consider their campus and its strategies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To meet this challenge, in the summer of 2020, Jhone Ebert, Nevada State’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the launch of the Nevada Digital Learning Collaborative (DLC). Except, after a year and a half of using this hand-picked program, Robert had to admit the truth: His students just weren’t learning how to read.

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Successful classroom technology should challenge and support every type of learner without widening the digital divide that’s often found in low-income and rural districts. During his keynote address, Dr. Michio Kaku predicted that in the not-so-distant future, the majority of today’s jobs will be taken over by robots.

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The Daring Librarian

AUGUST 25, 2018

You an start with just one Sphero Mini : The App-Controlled Robot Ball Photo by: Jenny of The Brick Castle "Little robot. Sphero Mini fits a huge experience into a tiny robot the size of a ping pong ball. Sure, you can can add lots more to a Robotics area in a Makerspace. And they did! Yes, please! Be creative!

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eSpark

JULY 11, 2016

Successful classroom technology should challenge and support every type of learner without widening the digital divide that’s often found in low-income and rural districts. During his keynote address, Dr. Michio Kaku predicted that in the not-so-distant future, the majority of today’s jobs will be taken over by robots.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

They settle in at the computers where Caine teaches coding and software, such as Illustrator and Photoshop, or they head to the back room for the 3-D printer, vinyl cutter and robotics kits. In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

Plus employers don’t want to pay more for older folks when they can pay less for younger ones and robots. Think about how this vision will play into state legislatures as they consider merging or closing campuses, or how funders plan their investments, or how presidents consider their campus and its strategies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

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 digital divide is at its greatest.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Speaking of Google, “ Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.” Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. Is It the Best Role Model?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. . It’s perhaps not surprising.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via NPR : “Teachers Report Stressed, Anxious Students In The ‘Age Of Trump’ ” “ Technology overuse may be the new digital divide ,” says The Hechinger Report’s Jill Barshay. Chatterbug is a language learning startup.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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