Classroom, Digital Divide, Laptops and Online Learning

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

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

Digital Divide

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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Laptops Tablets Online Learning

How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Laptops Tablets Online Learning

How K?12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Laptops Tablets Online Learning

How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Laptops Tablets Online Learning

MLTI is not a Tech Buy or Commodity. It’s a Learning Initiative.

More Verbs

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

It’s easy to walk into a big box store or search eBay and look at some of the inexpensive tablets and laptops that are available, then look at the per-pupil cost of a MLTI and think that it could be made less expensive. The first misunderstanding is that MLTI simply buys a laptop or tablet for each student.

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4 ways we can use edtech for engaging, high-quality learning experiences

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Here are four areas we can start: Rapidly Train Our Teachers to Harness Tech Amid historic challenges, with no roadmap and often no experience in remote learning, educators worked tirelessly to keep students learning during the heigh of the pandemic. It’s one thing to learn about U.S. Consider this: 1 in 4 U.S. The result?

EdTech

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Digital divide hits small towns hard

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

“Unfortunately, the digital divide is a very real barrier to success in our community,” said Audra Bluehouse, an English teacher at Hatch Valley High. “We Next page: What policymakers are doing to close the digital divide.

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Impact of Education’s Digital Transformation In recent years, education has undergone a digital transformation , and this will be apparent when you consider the average classroom today compared to the average classroom 20 or 30 years ago.

Learning

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We We don’t have a distance learning plan that is operating on all cylinders,” he said in April.

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OPINION: U.S. public schools should be federally funded

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Even as distance-education removes the spatial component from public education — lessons no longer happen in a particular classroom, or at a particular school, but on the (ostensibly worldwide) web — these lines still separate children from one another. State and local budgets are shrinking and, absent federal support, schools will flounder.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). ” that by 2019 half of all high school classes will be taught over the internet ; Raised questions about a new study on personalized learning ; Added four new incidents to the K-12 cyber incident map ; and. Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly.

EdTech

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Inequity looms large.

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The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. Lubelfeld, whose district will transition from hybrid to full in-person learning next month. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. With JumpStart, says Ms. Millions of students still face access issues.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

And during tumultuous times, the need for information, access to literacy, and digital access have become even greater. . For schools that closed and moved to online learning due to the coronavirus, digital access became a necessity overnight. Louis Public Library have moved completely online.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

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 extend the learning day. We can flip the classroom. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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. It has been slow.”.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The number has fluctuated as cases rise across the country, but throughout this fall pandemic semester, between 40% and 60% of students have been enrolled in districts that offer only remote learning, according to a tracker maintained by the company Burbio. In short, online learning is the reality for a majority of students this fall.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

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. But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One notable piece of K-12 tech innovation news is the integration of interactive devices and digital learning tools, transforming static learning spaces into dynamic, multimedia-rich environments. The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks.

Trends

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

EdTech

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, The Flipped Classroom". Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. Um, they do.)

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MLTI is not a Tech Buy or Commodity. It’s a Learning Initiative.

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Digital divide hits small towns hard

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

Homework in a McDonald’s parking lot: Inside one mother’s fight to help her kids get an education during coronavirus

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