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Big test makers like Pearson are already doing this, he said.) Many schools still use paper products and struggle with spotty broadband and limited digital tools, she said: The digitaldivide is “very much part of this conversation.” It’s considering whether AI could score tests.
Their list includes: DigitalDivide and Educational Inequality GenAI may exacerbate existing inequalities within education: Unequal Access: High costs of advanced GenAI tools along with infrastructure requirements limit accessibility for underprivileged students and institutions.
Districts must use the money on evidence-based programs that help stem learning loss, close the digitaldivide, and address social and emotional learning needs. However, like the second stimulus funding, there are reporting requirements. Australia, Canada, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Turkey, Israel and India.
The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digitaldivide for students from low-income families. Arati Nagaraj is an education consultant, edtech advisor and school board trustee in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digitaldivide…and avoid an impending AI divide. Pearson Mudhol, High School Student, Meridian World School, Round Rock, Texas Let’s be candid: the education headlines from 2023 were bleak.
That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digitaldivide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks.
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Via Mic : “On Thursday, Pearson , an education publishing company, apologized for publishing a nursing textbook section that contained racist material about treating patients from different cultural backgrounds who have acute and chronic pain.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ Unizin Partners with edX , Cengage.”
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, Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Um, they do.)
” Contrasting community college takes: a Pearson op-ed in Edsurge versus pretty much anything “ Dean Dad ” writes. The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the DigitalDivide.” Via NPR : “The One-Room Schoolhouse That’s A Model For The World.” Oh VR promises. Never change.
“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via The New York Times : “To Close DigitalDivide, Microsoft to Harness Unused Television Channels.” BYJU’s has acquired tutoring company Edurite from Pearson.
Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digitaldivide – and then walks in the other direction.” Pearson’s Jay Lynch and Nathan Martin argue in Edsurge “Why ‘What Works’ Doesn’t: False Positives in Education Research.” ” That’s Gail Heriot.
Other companies with similar models: Spark Schools, which raised $9 million this year from the Omidyar Network and Pearson, and APEC, also funded by Pearson. Data about who’s funding the expansion of private schools in the developing world can be found on funding.hackeducation.com.
” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a DigitalDivide.” Via The US News & World Report : “The View From a Testing Giant.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” Go Ducks.
And Silicon Valley tech investors, as well as large education corporations like Pearson, are behind this. (Do note: “Tech Companies Expect Free High-Speed Internet for Poorer Americans to Pay Off Later,” The New York Times reported in October.). In March, the FCC approved a $9.25 “The fix” is always privatization.
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