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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. And, accessibility technologies support learner variability and people with disabilities by ensuring navigation and information display is available in multiple ways.

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Increasing K-12 tech accessibility

eSchool News

Key points: Schools must ensure greater access to the tech tools students and teachers need The digital divide still holds students back DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable For more news on classroom equity, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Believing that all students have the same access to technology is a mistake.

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Transcription and Accessibility—New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon

Edsurge

The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level. Huang tells EdSurge the technology supports 60 languages, meaning a student listening to a professor lecture in English can get a transcription to, say, German. She says that the new technology, however, isn’t perfect.

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8 bids later: The power of group negotiations

Education Superhighway

The Northeast Board of Cooperative Educational Services (NE BOCES) provides technology support for 12 Colorado school districts that all needed faster, more reliable Internet access to keep up with growing demands for digital learning.

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Things to come.

Learning with 'e's

Those who have previously attended will know that Pelecon is a friendly, stimulating and lively Spring gathering in the beautiful South West of England for those who want to discover and explore more of the world of technology supported learning. at the early bird rate. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Half of school leaders expect significant impact from ESSA

eSchool News

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Training staff emerged as the biggest challenge, with procuring and maintaining hardware a close second.

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