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At the beginning of the pandemic, an estimated 15 million public school students in the US lacked the connectivity needed for onlinelearning. As nearly every school adopted some form of onlinelearning, students without computers and connectivity suffered.
At the beginning of the pandemic, an estimated 15 million public school students in the US lacked the connectivity needed for onlinelearning. As nearly every school adopted some form of onlinelearning, students without computers and connectivity suffered.
Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free onlinelearning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.
Because of these new technologies used in education during the pandemic, today, students who are home on extended illness-related absences, those who are traveling, or those who are otherwise unable to attend in-person school don’t have to worry about missing entire days or weeks of learning.
" Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Let Robots Teach American Schoolkids | Bloomberg → This is not a work of satire. Critical Reflection | Inside HigherEd → Achievement (grades) and learning are not always (often?) Tagged on: July 18, 2017 Schools’ information up for sale on darknet? wi.us, among other sources."
Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to onlinelearning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We
Kids from black and Latino communities — who are often already on the wrong side of the digitaldivide — 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.
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 DigitalDivide.”.
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.
Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digitaldivide – and then walks in the other direction.” ” That’s Gail Heriot. ” “What’s the bottom line on online preschool ?” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy.”
Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Futurism.com : “Here Are the States Where a Robot Is Most Likely to Steal Your Job.” ” Via Pew Research : “ Nearly one-in-five teens can’t always finish their homework because of the digitaldivide.” Thanks in advance.
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, Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones. Um, they do.)
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