Broadband, Digital Learning, Groups and Libraries

Live Education Events Are Back. But if They Host It, Will You Come?

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

But first there will be DLAC, the Digital Learning Annual Conference , set for June 14 to 16 in Austin, Texas—with a parallel track running online. It’s what’s known as a “hybrid” conference, blending both live and virtual elements similar to how many schools slowly filtered back to full-time learning last fall.

Broadband

Broadband Conference Education Laptops

Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook

How to Select a Complete Digital Education Solution Provider

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. Collaboration is one of the most crucial skills that children can learn in school, and it’s one that is universally teachable. Confirm That Internet Connectivity is Ensured. Encourage Collaboration.

How To

How To Software Education EdTech

OPINION: Five ways to achieve equity in remote learning

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. An equity lens led the team to evaluate technologies along five dimensions: Who are the groups affected by the technology?

Broadband

Broadband Learning Accessibility Outcomes

Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. Public Schools, digital equity and access to technology at home is a very real problem. Not only digital curriculum, but also productivity tools.

Future Ready

Future Ready Digital Divide Digital Learning Broadband

Lessons from Digital Learning Day

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.

Digital Learning

Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning

#FactFriday: 44.7M Students Have High-Speed Internet Access

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. . What Others Are Saying.

Accessibility

Accessibility E-rate Broadband Libraries

Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

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

Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

We're just over a week away from our free Library 2.016 online mini-conference, " Libraries of the Future " on October 6th! Be sure to also join the Library 2.0 network to be able to connect with and correspond with 22,000 other individuals in the library world, and to be kept updated on this and future events.

Libraries

Libraries Conference OER Trends

CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. NASHVILLE, TENN. For more information about CatchOn, follow @getcatchon or visit [link].

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Company Education Broadband Libraries

4 Ways to Improve Digital Equity in Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

At one panel, a distinguished group of experts, from city officials to district tech leaders, discussed what they saw as the most pressing issues. Solutions they proposed ranged from providing free citywide broadband access to giving students cellphones with preloaded data plans.

Classroom

Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility

Get to the root of the edtech issues with three key questions

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

He has worked for the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, MA as Director of Technology and Digital Learning; Newton, MA Public Schools as Director of IT and Library Media; Sharon, MA Public Schools as Director of Technology; and as Consultant at Creativemindz Consulting Group LLC.

EdTech

EdTech Data Student Data Privacy Libraries

Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

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.

Adobe

Adobe Education Tablets iPad

4 Ways to Improve Digital Equity in Your Classroom

Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

At one panel, a distinguished group of experts, from city officials to district tech leaders, discussed what they saw as the most pressing issues. Solutions they proposed ranged from providing free citywide broadband access to giving students cellphones with preloaded data plans.

Classroom

Classroom Policies Broadband Accessibility

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

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. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on April 10, 2020.

Learning

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility

College Enrollment is Down. Can These New State Policies Help?

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That divide affected a significant share of college students in West Virginia, a state where officials say nearly 40 percent of rural residents don’t have broadband. So the state improvised an internet solution through the Kids Connect program , which created more than 1,000 wireless hotspots in parking lots at schools, libraries and parks.

Policies

Policies Broadband Digital Divide Outcomes

How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative

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.

Accessibility

Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy

This College Program Wants to Help Schools Use Technology With Intention

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. Participants are currently learning how to evaluate software privacy policies and make an informed decision about whether it’s right for their school.

Technology

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LearnPlatform Launches National EdTech Equity Dashboard to Improve Visibility of Digital K-12 Engagement and Gaps Across U.S.

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.

EdTech

EdTech Digital Divide Trends E-rate

How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

EdTech

EdTech Learning Industry Data

Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

Accessibility

Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone

Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Seuss The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. Newsletter Sponsors Click for more information Learning Revolution Events More information at [link]. How does your library manage digital collections?

Google

Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference

Digital Equity Act Would Provide $250M Annually to Address Digital Divide

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Proponents of digital learning, as well as those committed to closing the nation's “homework gap,” rejoiced on Thursday when the U.S. Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. The same holds for U.S. Patty Murray (D-Wash.),

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Libraries Advocacy

The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I mentioned in the previous article in this series that Palmer Luckey, the founder of the VR company Oculus Rift (acquired by Facebook in 2014), had funded an unofficial pro-Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and spreading hateful memes about Hillary Clinton. ” Voter suppression – via Facebook.

Technology

Technology Education Facebook Company

EdTech Update

Live Education Events Are Back. But if They Host It, Will You Come?

Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

Trending Sources

How to Select a Complete Digital Education Solution Provider

OPINION: Five ways to achieve equity in remote learning

Good News from Our Nation’s Capital

Lessons from Digital Learning Day

#FactFriday: 44.7M Students Have High-Speed Internet Access

Nearly all American classrooms can now connect to high-speed internet, effectively closing the “connectivity divide”

Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

4 Ways to Improve Digital Equity in Your Classroom

Get to the root of the edtech issues with three key questions

Celebrating ConnectED’s Achievements Toward Transforming Education

4 Ways to Improve Digital Equity in Your Classroom

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

College Enrollment is Down. Can These New State Policies Help?

How to reach students without internet access at home? Schools get creative

This College Program Wants to Help Schools Use Technology With Intention

LearnPlatform Launches National EdTech Equity Dashboard to Improve Visibility of Digital K-12 Engagement and Gaps Across U.S.

How did edtech impact learning in 2023?

Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access

Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

Digital Equity Act Would Provide $250M Annually to Address Digital Divide

The Politics of Education Technology

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