From the NY Times opinion article “A Digital Tool to Unlock
Learning” by David Bornstein (here) …. One way to help students
gain agency over their own education is through technology.
Despite the Internet revolution, the field of K-12 education has
been relatively slow to respond to digital media. That’s why I
paid a visit last week to the site of a promising experiment in
digital learning in New York: the Bea Fuller Rodgers Middle
School in Washington Heights. Last year, CFY, a nonprofit
organization, provided home computers (and arranged for
discounted broadband access) to every one of the sixth grade
students in the school. (Almost all the school’s families are
Hispanics who qualify for the federal government’s free or
reduced lunch program. Currently, half of all Hispanics in the
United States lack broadband.). In addition, CFY provided a
four-hour training for the students and their parents in a free
Web-based platform CFY developed called PowerMyLearning which
contains 1,000 (soon to be 2,800) digital l