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What’s next? Lessons from the lockdown on traditional education

Neo LMS

There’s no secret that a digital divide is creating barriers between students and learning. That could also be true for seminars and lab projects. What this pandemic has shown us is what many teachers — and remote learners — have known for years: that it can work, once you figure out what works best for your circumstances.

Education 401
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Students Size Up Edtech’s Dark Side

Edsurge

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

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5 key recommendations for AI in education

eSchool News

Invest in equitable access to AI technologies: Ensure all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, have access to AI tools and resources, addressing the digital divide and preventing the exacerbation of achievement gaps.

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PROOF POINTS: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. children were taught remotely during the spring school closures

The Hechinger Report

AIR presented early results from its “ National Survey of Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 ” at a virtual session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar on July 22, 2020. This digital divide had enormous consequences for what instruction meant.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

Listen to the problems Schaberg identifies in that final section: the digital divide; students not having a good physical location to be on camera; missing the physical campus. Over the past two years I’ve taught a series of HyFlex seminars at Georgetown. These aren’t HyFlex problems, but issues with online teaching.

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Elevating Innovation – SULS0205

Shake Up Learning

New curricula is available from partners including Discovery Education, McGraw Hill, and NYU Also, don’t miss their professional development virtual conference with Digital Promise, Elevating Innovation, on November 7th, helping educators explore ways to integrate tech in the classroom. Start your journey at Verizon.com/shakeup.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

As the Coronavirus has changed the landscape of education, I have become more and more aware of inequity and the digital divide. In my reflection, I have attempted to present ideas for all schools across the digital divide. MARCH 30, 2020 · 11:02 PM | EDIT. Welcome to a post that has taken be a while to write.