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The Second Digital Divide: Disparity in Online Skills Leaving Many Students Behind | NE... - 0 views

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  • While digital learning can infuse an exciting variety of technological resources into the classroom, many students lack the basic understanding and skills to maximize the academic potential of today’s technology.
  • experts came together to discuss ways to overcome what’s been dubbed a “second-level digital divide” in students’ abilities to use digital resources.
  • governments and schools need to make complimentary adjustments in digital readiness to help the population they serve use the tools that they’re pushing at them.”
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  • greater access doesn’t necessarily correlate to mastery of the technology.
  • The study found that 29% of Americans had low levels of ‘digital readiness,’ and that as many as 70 million Americans are not ‘digitally ready’ for online use.
  • how do you produce quality homework if you do not know how to properly research information available on the Internet?
  • the best way to overcome this divide is for educators to incorporate technology into their curriculums so that students can learn from a young age how to harness the academic potential of digital resources.
  • even while technology use in schools may be on the rise, students still lack the necessary digital readiness needed to not only succeed in school, but be prepared for a society that’s rapidly becoming more digitally centered.
  • The world has lost its patience with those who can’t navigate the online world. And because those folks who cannot navigate the online world are typically uneducated, poor, or otherwise vulnerable, this group is really easy to overlook.”
Britt Watwood

Three Social Trends That Will Influence Education in 2014 - 0 views

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shared by Britt Watwood on 12 May 14 - No Cached
  • Britt Watwood on 12 May 14
     
    Collaborating seamlessly face-to-face and at a distance, bringing the human element to virtual interactions, and personalized learning will prevail in 2014; each facilitated by technology
tammyhodo

Free Technology for Teachers - 0 views

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shared by tammyhodo on 20 May 14 - No Cached
  • tammyhodo on 20 May 14
     
    Article on free tools available to those who teach online
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