{"id":80202,"date":"2022-04-19T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80202"},"modified":"2022-04-19T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:07:51","slug":"bridging-the-digital-divide-in-online-learning-bates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/19\/bridging-the-digital-divide-in-online-learning-bates\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the digital divide in online learning [Bates]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2022\/04\/15\/bridging-the-digital-divide-in-online-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bridging the digital divide in online learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from tonybates.ca by Tony Bates<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The problem<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the start of the pandemic, in Oakland, California, 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, only 12 percent of low-income students, and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland\u2019s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The outcome<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo years into the pandemic, Oakland has been able to connect 98 percent of the students in the district. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also from Tony, see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2022\/04\/12\/getting-into-the-online-learning-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Getting into the online learning industry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Three years ago, I wrote a blog post called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2019\/06\/28\/so-you-want-to-be-an-educational-technologist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018So you want to be an educational technologist&#8230;\u2019<\/a> in which gave some advice on how to get into and develop a career as an educational technologist. In that article, I noted that I didn\u2019t have much experience to guide people going into the corporate training area, and this article by Matthew Lynch does exactly that. This article complements nicely what I wrote earlier.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bridging the digital divide in online learning &#8212; from tonybates.ca by Tony Bates Excerpt: The problem At the start of the pandemic, in Oakland, California, 40 miles north of Silicon Valley, only 12 percent of low-income students, and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland\u2019s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,127,200,286,346,343,347,32,533,211,180,119,55,46,74,7,510,559,87,62,560,480,20,48,118,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-collaboration","category-corporate-universities","category-digital-learning","category-distance-education","category-education","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-experimentation","category-funding-grants","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-hubs","category-learning-spaces","category-online-learning","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-strategy","category-telecommunications","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80202"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80212,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80202\/revisions\/80212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}