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Website Maintenance Announcement – September 19–21
Activities begin at 6:00 PM CT on Friday, September 19 and continue through Sunday, September 21.
During this time, Product and My Product List functionality will be unavailable
Create a plan to address the challenge; start by determining where you are on the scale of digital disparities facing schools, students, and communities.
Reflecting on the National COSN event in April, one thing is clear. Digital equity is a complicated, and an all too common challenge facing primary education. Thought leaders, recognized for their innovative and successful solutions to the challenges of digital equity, delivered powerful messages around the importance of tackling digital disparities facing schools, students, and communities. While everyone agreed that the goal was to achieve equitable access to opportunity, the differences between suggested causes and solutions ranged from nuanced to significantly divergent. The standardized testing and curriculum achievement standards are becoming the measures of success for students and teachers, like it or not. If this continues, shouldn’t we expect the formula for digital equity to be standardized as well? According to superintendents and K-12 CTOs leading the effort, absolutely not. As proposed in The Digital Equity Dilemma: Part 1, digital equity assumes that everyone begins in a different state of access to opportunity based on individual circumstance. Everyone faces different challenges, each requiring varying accommodations. Listed below are some of the major variations in digital access challenges and solutions.
Only one thing is clear. There is no argument that we must take action to face what will determine the future of our students, nation, and global society. The longest journey begins with the first step - create your plan to address this seemingly overwhelming challenge of transitioning to digital learning. Start by determining where you are on the scale of digital equity, a framework developed by The Learning Counsel, to help you determine how you will tackle the digital equity challenge.