The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

Last-minute decision-making is the new normal, as schools and districts vet a multiplicity of strategies and applications to support their reliance on digital learning in a pandemic. But access alone wasn’t enough. What are the potential effects on these groups? But access and vetting were only part of the equation.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Outcomes 142

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. Additionally, sourcing digital solutions that can undergo upgrades without having to re-purchase the product or license is also a bonus. Confirm That Internet Connectivity is Ensured.

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How To Software Education EdTech 375

Education Superhighway

JULY 20, 2017

The Northeast Board of Cooperative Educational Services (NE BOCES) provides technology support for 12 Colorado school districts that all needed faster, more reliable Internet access to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. The consortium’s path to better digital access took a positive turn in August 2016.

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Groups Broadband E-rate Accessibility 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. border, Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private university, founded in 1943 by a group of wealthy local business executives, supports 33 campuses across the nation and in 15 countries abroad. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 128

Education Superhighway

JULY 10, 2015

In our work over the past three years to understand and analyze school broadband connectivity and costs, we have discovered high variance in the prices that school districts in different areas of the country—and even within the same state and county—pay for Internet access.

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ExcelinEd

APRIL 5, 2019

Visit EducationSuperHighway.org to learn how your state can upgrade internet access in every public school classroom to empower more students to take advantage of the promise of digital learning. ” USED Office of Educational Technology , Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning. . million U.S.

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Accessibility E-rate Broadband Libraries 28

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. ELI is a comprehensive three-year plan to close the digital divide and empower every learner through investment in technology?, information and access for families? Not only digital curriculum, but also productivity tools.

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Future Ready Digital Divide Digital Learning Broadband 130

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2017

Despite sizable challenges in technology and internet access and experience, immigrant Hispanic families are among the most likely to prioritize technology purchases that will support their children’s education, according to a new survey. Access is still a troubling issue among this group.

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Broadband Survey Accessibility Data 71

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

Fourteen percent of households with school-age children do not have internet access, most of which earn less than $50,000 a year. And research indicates that students from low-income backgrounds could fall further behind their peers if learning stops too long and the country sinks into recession.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 217

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By Kathleen Costanza.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

These devices and the included applications like Google Docs support collaborative learning. Using Chromebooks for interactive lessons and group work helps encourage problem-solving and teamwork in the classroom–skills students will be grateful to have in the future. Broadband improvements. However, investments of over $1.5

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Broadband Technology Chromebook Tools 57

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 9, 2017

With just over two million people living in New Mexico and almost 700,000 of them spread across rural regions, many New Mexico students still lack access to the high-speed broadband necessary to take advantage of digital learning in the classroom. Learn more about our Broadband Upgrade Consulting Program.

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E-rate Broadband Elementary Digital Learning 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

It will provide more support for students who are struggling in the online environment, it will take some of the burden off of the teachers, and it will help schools support educational equity by creating greater access to services that previously were only available to families that could afford it. – temperature, lighting).

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 140

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

For me, students' access to tech at school wasn't the issue. Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. Today, using tech for teaching and learning -- both in class and for homework -- is a lot more common than it was. featured_content_1%%.

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Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 50

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. To support this work, Hoang secured a software donation from Adobe & ConnectED to help increase technological literacy for Burbank’s students by integrating digital media into the art curriculum. Safari Books.

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Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

The report was produced by EducationSuperHighway , a small nonprofit that works with schools to help them improve their choices about increasing high-speed internet access. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Today, that figure is 75 percent, but an estimated 11.6

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Meeting E-rate Broadband Blended Learning 40

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Overcoming Barriers. Innovative Approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 70

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

As America’s classrooms become increasingly connected, the nation inches ever closer to reaching a major milestone: 100 percent of schools with high-speed internet access, defined as at least 100 kbps (or 100 thousand bits per second) per student. At that speed, Marwell said, “digital learning” takes on a whole new meaning.

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Digital Learning Broadband E-rate Learning 143

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

For me, students' access to tech at school wasn't the issue. Because the majority of my students lacked internet access at home, I never assigned homework that required technology. Today, using tech for teaching and learning -- both in class and for homework -- is a lot more common than it was. featured_content_1%%.

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Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility 40

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The district’s Director of Technology Services, Keith Bockwoldt, has spent the last several years ensuring that his teachers have the tools and resources they need to help all students take advantage of digital learning opportunities. I saw the need to start paying attention to a cloud-based curriculum as we moved towards 1:1 devices.”

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E-rate Broadband iPad Accessibility 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

And now, what can I do with what I have learned to find solutions to unmet needs? A group of students with screwdrivers in hand taking apart old desktop computers to learn about circuits. schools to receive blended learning grants. Why we all need time to tinker with tech. Nathan Deal’s office said.

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Blended Learning Broadband Groups Accessibility 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

And now, what can I do with what I have learned to find solutions to unmet needs? A group of students with screwdrivers in hand taking apart old desktop computers to learn about circuits. schools to receive blended learning grants. Why we all need time to tinker with tech. Nathan Deal’s office said.

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Blended Learning Broadband Groups Accessibility 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Proposed legislation would ensure students have access to digital learning resources, internet outside of school. The Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 , introduced by Rep. The Homework Gap is the cruelest part of the new digital divide. “The “The Digital Learning Equity Act of 2015 (H.R.

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E-rate Digital Divide Digital Learning Industry 40

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This can cause several issues from inequity in how students are taught to network issues as teachers access their personal playlists. In addition, PD leaders can’t possibly provide appropriate professional learning on using tools in the classroom when no two teachers have the same ones.

EdTech 41

EdTech Data Student Data Privacy Libraries 41

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

A lot of our kids don’t have internet access,” said Coe, who knows students who routinely head to the library or the town’s McDonald’s to get online. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high.

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Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The top problems they identified were decreased student enrollment at colleges and insufficient access to and understanding of digital technology among students and instructors. After all, remote learning that relies on video calls and emails doesn’t work well for students who don’t have internet access. she asked. “If

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Policies Broadband Digital Divide Outcomes 124

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

To give further context, I’ve sorted them alphabetically, into four categories; (1) those organizations that are instructionally-focused; (2) those that provide supports for technology leadership; (3) those that focus on connectivity and access; and (4) those that focus on data privacy and security. Organization: Code.org ®. URL: code.org.

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Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. He holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He holds an M.Ed

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Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

The real-time view provides the most comprehensive look at digital learning disparities. and across different groups. and across different groups. For the first time, national daily edtech trends are aggregated and visible to understand and identify digital learning disparities. Raleigh, N.C.

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EdTech Digital Divide Trends E-rate 66

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. Below is a sample schedule for a 90-minute, 4th-grade class.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 137

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing.

Technology 106

Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 106

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet. The broadband speed is supposed to be up to 300 gigabytes — considered moderate usage for an American household — but it can run slow because everyone is using it, Tang says. Those resources seem to work.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 108

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. Below is a sample schedule for a 90-minute, 4th-grade class.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Full disclosure: Entangled Solutions, where I am a principal consultant, helped prepare the report.)

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