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The Coming Cost of Convenience: AI Automation and Personal Services
I have reached the point that I am convinced AI tools will play a significant role in education and in our daily lives. The amounts of money companies are investing to develop and attract interest in their AI services is … Continue reading
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Struggles for rural students interested in coding
A recent The Hill article that despite colleges seeing a rise in computer science majors, students from rural high schools are being left out. Small differences in high-speed access in rural areas remain, but the main issue appears to be … Continue reading
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Emergency Broadband Benefit
The FCC will soon offer up to $50 a month toward broadband expenses for households that qualify. This will include the families with children that qualify for reduced income meals. Households whose children get free or low-cost school meals will … Continue reading
Maybe the FCC will act
The pandemic has revealed many gaps in addressing equity issues. While there is hope that in a few months things will normalize to a great degree, there may some motivation to address the problems that have been revealed. The challenge … Continue reading
Equity in pandemic education
The “Equity in Action” committee has developed a brief guide identifying and explaining equity issues exacerbated by the pandemic identified action steps available to educators and parents. Inequity has increased under the present administration with the pandemic compounding the insensitivity … Continue reading
Layoffs hitting K12 hard
This Reuters article describes the layoffs in K12 related to the economic downturn related to the Covid pandemic; 469,000 nationwide. With great uncertainty for how schools will function in the Fall, if schools must rely in part or totally on … Continue reading
Funding for public schools in trouble
This article from NPR explains the plight of public schools as the downturn in taxable income to states is causing state budget commitments to fail and public employees are an easy target. State revenues will likely suffer some time as … Continue reading
Who is responsible for oversight?
A recent supreme court decision has me confused. The court recently reversed the opinion of lower courts to indicate that K12 students in Detroit had “no right to literacy“. This seems a strange issue to make it to the court. I … Continue reading
Everyone On
Access from home is still an educational issue for many. In those situations in which family income is the issue. EveryneOn.org may offer helpful suggestions. Enter a zip code and the site offers options.
New FCC and e-rate
Educators – if your school makes use of the e-rate, you should probably pay attention to what is going on with the FCC. According to Education Week, the FCC has rescinded a report describing the success of the e-rate program. … Continue reading
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