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TECHNOLOGY Offers HUGE new opportunities to learn. Mobility - 24/7 - school, bus, home, library, coffee shop Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0 Social Interactions - highly connected teaching and learning Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE.


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TECHNOLOGY

Offers HUGE new opportunities to learn.

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Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Mobility - 24/7 - school, bus, home, library, coffee shop

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Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Social Interactions - highly connected teaching and learning

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Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

New ways to see and use Data

www.hint.fm/projects/flickr/

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Photo by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

Digital Content

Nasa.com

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 The problem with education 
 across the world is not lack of

EXCELLENCE.

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It’s a lack of

EQUITY.

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Fueled by the

DIGITAL LEARNING GAP.

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  • 1. Lack of access: 


broadband, mobile, personal device

  • 2. Lack of participation: 


People who lack digital literacy - their voices are not heard

  • 3. Lack of empowering use: 


By individuals and schools

What is The Digital Learning Gap?

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RESEARCHERS DEVELOPERS EDUCATORS

We Invest At The Intersections

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For example,

  • ur Marketplace work
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Ed-tech is a multi-billion dollar industry

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But it’s hard to match the right tools with the right teachers and students ? ? ? ? ?

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We gathered information from both providers and educators

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Needs Assessment is Informal

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Limited Meaningful Evidence

  • f Products’ Success

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Districts often don’t trust provider’s evidence Providers don’t think districts know what evidence to look for

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With these evidence gaps, districts and providers alike rely heavily

  • n referrals and pilots
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Most Pilots Aren’t Rigorous

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When pilots are used frequently,
 they are mostly unstructured

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So, what can be done to
 improve ed-tech purchasing?

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Better guidelines and research for

Conducting needs assessments Showing and evaluating evidence Administering effective pilots Involving end users

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By working together to improve these practices, we can get the right products into the hands


  • f the right teachers & students
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Partnering to share and extend frameworks for piloting and testbed projects around the world

Millenium@EDU and Digital Promise Global