Education on the Edge Speaker Series - Karen Cator

"Closing the Digital Learning Gap"

Across the country are pockets of excellence in teaching and learning. Students are designing, coding, composing, animating, and publishing. Educators are engaging, motivating, and nutruting students to develop mindsets for lifelong learning. And yet, huge gaps exist between learning outcomes, graduation rates, and college readiness of students based on race, class, neighborhood, and available resources in the schools they attend. Karen Cator has dedicated Digital Promise, a nonprofit working to spur innovation in education to improve the opportunity to learn for all Americans, Karen will share her perspective on technology in learning and associated challenges, including the Digital Learning Gap.