The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Recognizing that student success in the classroom hinges on student wellness, new campus partnerships among faculty, staff and administration — such as student success centers and campus health counseling centers — give students support when they most need it. Second, we’ve taken ownership of the digital divide at the institutional level.

Digital Divide 142

Digital Divide Course Accessibility System 142

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Social Institute conducted focus groups and surveys with over 100 elementary educators including administrators, counselors and classroom teachers in order to better understand the specific needs of fourth-grade students. Why should this be any different?”.

Social Media 65

Social Media Digital Divide Survey Elementary 65

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Waterford.org also provides families with laptops and internet service, helping reduce the digital divide that would have prevented many low-income kids from logging on. The rural district has only one public preschool classroom. He also sees an upside to more children gaining access to technology devices like laptops.

Guidelines 110

Guidelines Laptops Learning Digital Divide 110

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

A llow s elementary schools the flexibility to add additional instructional days (up to 210 days); . Bridging the Digital Divide. Texas has the most rural students in America – between 800,000 and 1 million – which ma kes closing the digital divide challenging. It also : . platform. .

Digital Divide 28

Digital Divide E-rate Laptops Assessment 28

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them.

Libraries 124

Libraries Mobility eBook Android 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. on March 18, 2020. Inequity looms large.

Learning 69

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. An online Parent Academy – a digital extension of an already-existing initiative – was launched in Georgia’s Clayton County Public Schools last spring. With JumpStart, says Ms.

Learning 142

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. We can flip the classroom. Would 20 hours of one student logged into Google Classroom, or 20 students logged in for one hour, suffice?

Broadband 91

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 91

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 118

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Students with the internet at home could access online learning activities offered by the district or participate in virtual classrooms, while packets were provided for children without the ability to log on. The digital divide. School closures have already harmed the most vulnerable. We don’t mumble or complain,” she said.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. That's a lot of computers.

EdTech 170

EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

MindShift

APRIL 24, 2020

And a federal government plan for reopening, according to The Washington Post , says that getting kids back in classrooms or other group care is the first priority for getting back to normal. There are only 10 students to a classroom, with just one teacher. But there are still many more unknowns than guarantees.

Digital Divide 69

Digital Divide Broadband Groups Policies 69

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Digital media literacy continues to rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. Many activities related to learning and education take place outside walls of classroom. By 2014, mobile will be the DOMINANT source for the internet SURPASSING laptops & desktops. Now we have an "App Gap".

BYOD 60

BYOD Poll Everywhere Mobility Laptops 60

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

EdTech 70

EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

EdTech 110

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 110

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare by the pandemic. Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. Teaching experience. Ned Lamont. history by fall 2022.

Education 218

Education Digital Divide Policies Common Core 218

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Certainly in the 1990s , when E-rate was introduced, its goal was to address this very issue – “the digital divide.”

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49