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30 Jun 08
Web-based Learning Design: Planning for Diversity
2002 summary of research on how diversity affects online learning, focusing especially on Hispanics. Includes differences in communication due to culture, including differences between different Hispanic populations (i.e., Mexico isn't the same as Guatemala). Also notes that Hispanics are often on the wrong side of the digital divide and may have less prior experience with technology, therefore exhibiting fewer characteristics of the net generation.
11 Apr 08
Top News - Panelists: Online learning can help minority students
Advantages for online learning at the K-12 level to help disadvantaged students. In spite of the title, this is about more than just racial issues.
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In fact, Jackson said, out of all the high schools in Illinois that implement online learning, a predominantly Hispanic high school has the highest online learning pass rate. This school has managed to recover dropouts and has encouraged parents raising children and/or working full-time to enroll as well.
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“Online learning isn’t just some remedial course we’re giving to minority or disadvantaged kids,” said Rose. “It’s a high-quality education that’s helping to meet individual student needs.”Jackson argued that sometimes online courses are even more rigorous than traditional courses, because they are more interactive, require technology literacy, and provide a host of online resources for a student to take advantage of.
29 Nov 07
DDN Communities: Literacy & Learning
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Digital literacy and learning resources from the digital divide network. Some sections haven't been updated for over 6 months, but the archives might have some good resources.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-11-29
08 Nov 07
eSchool News online - School laptop program begets writing gains
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This 1-to-1 laptop program resulted in improvements in writing skills. 20% more of the 8th graders were rated proficient in writing than had been 5 years earlier. Quotes from page 2 of the article.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-11-08
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Laptops make it easier for students to edit their copy and make changes without getting writer's cramp, he said. As a result, students are writing and revising their work more frequently, which leads to better results. And it's important, Silvernail said, that those skills translated when the test was taken with pen and paper, too.
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"It's just a lot easier to edit, to self-critique. Our teachers engage students in a lot of peer editing. Not only are they helping themselves, but they're helping each other as they get to their final projects," Rebar said.
18 Aug 07
The Internet's new Dr. Spock? | Tech News on ZDNet
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Interview with Henry Jenkins about the younger generation and how being part of online participatory culture affects their learning.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-08-18
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The research suggests that kids who live online understand the process by which knowledge is produced and shared in an online environment, whereas those kids who come in within 10 minutes, they're trying to get the answer and get off. So they're not as critical of a corporate Web site, for example. That's just one example of some fundamental inequalities in access to social skills and culture competencies between the information-haves and have-nots.
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Really this becomes the basis for the new hidden curriculum. We now must say those kids who are raised in an environment where they have regular access to the online worldï¿??have a different way of learning that prepares them for school--to do better in school and in life--than those kids who were being left out.
06 Jul 07
21st Century Collaborative: Pew Internet Project latest report on the state of at-home broadband access
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New statistics on the digital divide, specifically about broadband access at home. 48% of whites have broadband access, compared to 40% of blacks. Urban and suburban areas have about 50% access, but in rural areas it's only 31%.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-07-06
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