Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many people witnessed the change in technology from dial-up modems to broadband. Cybercriminals can access their information through an unencrypted network. It’s highly possible that they venture onto websites that can access their data and use it for illegal activities. There are numerous tools available for parental control.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn how mobile apps might help close the “homework gap.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Using learning material and platforms that are accessible on any device may help more students stay on track with schoolwork while they’re stuck at home.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers. patents in mobile technologies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

All state districts will have access to high-speed broadband connections. All 173 districts in Kentucky will have access to high-speed, fiber-based connectivity of more than 480 Megabits per second thanks to a partnership between the state department of education and AT&T.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

Something else that was immediate and dramatic: the gap between students who had Internet access at home, and those who didn’t. ” The suburban district is perceived by some as well-to-do, Nicol says, but he estimates that in any given year, roughly 15 percent of students don’t have Internet access outside of school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s according to the sixth annual broadband and infrastructure report released by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit made up of K-12 school technology leaders. The recent data breach at San Diego Unified School District, which is estimated to have affected 500,000 current and former students, is one such example.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2016

Much was discussed during the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week in Paris. The image presented here was ironic, appearing as it did on the door to the main venue of the conference, but as several pointed out, the device in the image is a reference to a bygone age when mobile phones were primitive. don't have internet capability).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

E-rate helps schools and libraries get affordable Internet access by discounting the cost of service based on the school’s location – urban or rural – and the percentage of low-income students served. billion annually. With approaches like these, digital learning doesn’t stop when students leave the classroom.'

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We We need to change that.”. We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2020

We put a spotlight on examples of how real IT leaders make innovation a priority for their district, and we examine priorities such as content accessibility, broadband access, and supporting UDL. You also can find a complete list of IT hardware and management partners and companies in the guide.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Jarret Cummings , EDUCAUSE’s director of policy and government relations, argued that net neutrality is an important issue in higher education, since open access to ideas and information is such a key principle of colleges and academic libraries. “It Cummings said net neutrality will ultimately “be back in the courts” and in congress.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. million more students left to connect.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

School bus wi-fi also is viewed as a way to close the persistent homework gap that occurs when students have internet access during school, but lack it at home. Next page: Five examples of school bus wi-fi programs. Specifically, Sen.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An initial needs assessment by CCSD found that 70,000 respondents did not have a device, 18,000 did not have Internet access, and 120,000 did not respond at all. The survey results demonstrated the urgency of eliminating broadband accessibility as a barrier to remote learning. This program was called Connect2Compete.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Here’s some of what we learned about the challenges and opportunities in mobilizing new technologies to address educational equity. A Rising Tide of Inequality Edtech efforts at broadening access to opportunity often falter when running up against entrenched forms of inequity and discrimination.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. On June 25, 2020, Mayor Lori E.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As I continue to examine the challenge of digital equity, I've learned about many strategies school districts might use to mitigate the lack of Internet access outside of school. Grundy Center Community Schools in Iowa is a great example of a district that has visualized its data around home infrastructure and access.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The video’s simplicity and accessibility is the point for ReadyRosie, which offers parents ways to turn a chore like putting away groceries into vocabulary practice. An example of a ReadyRosie video lesson for parents. It’s smooth and in the pantry,” the boy says slowly. It’s soft and smooth.” Peanut butter? she asks. “Uh-huh,”

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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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Source: Courtesy of CoSN ( [link] ) During the past two decades, efforts to provide America’s schools with high speed Internet access have made great progress. However, the increasingly ubiquitous use of technology in instruction has resulted in a new digital divide between students who have home Internet access and those who do not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020. Mackey Pendergrast. School District.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 20, 2017

We can use Kaltura and Blackboard , for example. Disadvantages: Challenges for students without access to needed technologies, including video recorders (how many don’t have smartphones?) and broadband. Requires support for accessibility, such as captioning. Young mentions Flipgrid and one I know well, VoiceThread.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. The California Virtual Academies was forced to refund some $2 million to the state’s Department of Education for improperly used funds this year, for example.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. Just three days to mobilize a community of partners and volunteers to assist our schools.” Three days!

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MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon consider adopting a new version of its Lifeline program to increase broadband access for the millions of low-income Americans who do not have consistent service. Address the lack of broadband Internet access in many lower-income homes. The answer is: not yet!

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will soon consider adopting a new version of its Lifeline program to increase broadband access for the millions of low-income Americans who do not have consistent service. Address the lack of broadband Internet access in many lower-income homes. The answer is: not yet!

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2012

Never before has gaining access to information been so easy. The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. Access to information is one thing.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Developed by the University of New Mexico-Taos Education and Career Center and local business partners, Taos HIVE was designed to solve challenges unique to rural communities, such as geographic isolation, education deserts , and lack of access to broadband and other services. How can students access this space?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A graduation rate requirement for access to special funds for minority-serving institutions in a proposed House Republican rewrite of the Higher Education Act would exempt historically black colleges and universities.” ” That bill: the move to re-authorize the Higher Education Act.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Just last year, for example, he said Tustin USD was using a nationally-known curriculum product that failed during a critical juncture. “We Craven sees this as the perfect example of how even the best-laid plans on the district side can quickly unravel when third parties are involved. “If It wasn’t enough,” said Craven. “As

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Accessing systems (network drives, online resources, etc.) Wireless access is a key part of many modern organizations. It should be easy to access, reliable and fast. Access to the internet must be fast and reliable. Access to the internet must be fast and reliable. A solid, reliable, well designed network.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” “Education is going to be a powerful example of the potential of VR,” he said. Via Edsurge : “ Salesforce Announces Mobile App for Advising at Dreamforce.” ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Third, learn how you can curate by organizing content into useful, easy-to-access collections. You’ll also learn about Digital Passport, an online/mobile game that teaches digital citizenship to 3rd-5th graders. Is your library mobile friendly? The curriculum includes resources for parents. Happy reading!

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