4.4 Leveraging Technology to Bridge Equity Gaps

“Technology can be a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent our approaches to learning and collaboration, shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps, and adapt learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners,” US DOE, Ed Tech Office. Listen to Sal Khan, Founder of the Khan Academy and Schoolhouse.world as he helps us consider how we might leverage technology to bridge the digital divide. For those who may want to extend the learning evoked by the podcast, the following facilitation guide (https://bit.ly/2P00FVR) has been developed to help with next steps in deepening the shared learning. This series is brought to you in collaboration with Learning Forward, the only professional association devoted exclusively to establishing and sustaining highly effective professional development for educators. To learn more about Learning Forward, visit www.learningforward.org. myPD Unplugged is a production of the Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Development in the Long Beach Unified School District.