Monday 14 September 2015

How Digital Equity Can Help Close the Homework Gap

By Keith R. Krueger, Marie Bjerede, THE Journal

Does educational technology close the achievement gap or widen it? Even in the best-case scenarios, when the potential of digital learning is fulfilled and all student achievement increases, the gap is likely to increase. Why? As Tom Vander Ark points out in his book Getting Smart, when we use ed tech to raise the floor for student achievement, the ceiling is raised even further. Unfortunately, educational technology leaders often see only the best-case scenario. In reality, when the achievement gap increases, sometimes it is because the absolute performance improvements may be limited to select students due to a number of factors.

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/09/10/how-digital-equity-can-help-close-the-homework-gap.aspx

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