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APRIL 28, 2025
Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development.
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JUNE 18, 2025
For example, most PBS Kids episodes are 11 minutes, accounting for children’s shorter attention spans and how much they can retain in a single sitting. There is also a large focus on “child-centered content,” designed specifically for the age of the target audience and how much they can process.
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Edsurge
JULY 3, 2025
Cardholders also cite state-specific legislation that alters what their teachers can teach and their libraries can shelve, and librarians who draw unwanted attention to the age-appropriateness of the titles they check out. Or privacy, for that matter.
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JANUARY 16, 2024
When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed. You use a phrase for this that you call ‘budgeted attention.’ What does that mean?
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OCTOBER 19, 2017
But researchers at the Internet Archive and Tulane University say they’ve found a legal way to scan and make available many in-copyright works published between 1923 and 1941, which will come as welcome news to those who want to dive into a digital copy of a book like In Love With a T-Man , a 1937 pulp novel by Rob Eden. “We Public Domain.”)
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NOVEMBER 14, 2018
To try to better understand this dynamic and fast-changing environment, thousands of entrepreneurs and education leaders from 34 countries gathered here this week for the Global Education Technology Summit. An estimated 34 percent of all mobile internet traffic in China flows through WeChat.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 10, 2023
People were just applying approaches to information on the internet that weren't really appropriate to the internet, that people were applying some of these pre-internet approaches that weren't really applicable.” In fact, it's probably the skill that you apply the most because the internet is relatively unfiltered.
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