The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. John has authored several papers documenting the benefits of broadband.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In light of the recent Covid-19 pandemic and other natural disasters such as floods, drought, firestorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes, universal access to the internet has never been more important.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

While only about 10 percent of parents reported their kids used a virtual reality headset, personal assistant device like Amazon Echo or internet-connected smart-toy, that’s about the same percentage of parents that reported owning a tablet computer in 2011. Today, 42 percent of children have their own tablet.)

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Another issue is that the eligibility of Managed Internal Broadband Services (MIBS, or Managed WiFi), and Basic Maintenance for Internal Connections (BMIC) also expire at the end of FY2019.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. For some students who lack access to broadband and digital devices, and for some schools that can’t handle the logistics of a device for every student, print remains the most accessible way to learn. “But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. billion to $3.3

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

” To help increase digital literacy awareness in underserved communities, Broadband Rhode Island , a partner with RIFLI, created a curriculum in 2011 for adult education teachers to promote digital literacy among adult learners.

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

From 2009 to 2011, following the book’s publication, the Hume Foundation made grants to Rocketship in the Bay Area and Carpe Diem in Yuma, AZ, two charter schools that were already implementing blended learning, to promote their models. Innosight Institute later changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute.).

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. For example, the Broadband for Montana Schools program contracted with several E-rate consultants and provides grants to help Montana schools successfully apply for the E-rate Program.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 29, 2012

Dr. Bryan Alexander is author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media , published in April 2011 by Praeger. He lives on a Vermont homestead with his family, where they raise animals and crops, combining broadband with a low-tech lifestyle.' psid=2012-05-29.1709.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

One such effort is Black Girls Code , started in 2011 by Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer by training who has worked in biotech and pharmaceutical companies. But many of them may go home or go to a school where there’s no broadband access. This gap in technology access still frustrates me. You don’t learn by reading a book.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

He offered online live and video classes through broadband and satellite to teach students beyond the centers’ walls. By the time Raveendran formally incorporated Byju’s parent company, Think & Learn, in 2011, 110 million Indians used the internet, only about 9 percent of the country, according to a study from Google and KPMG.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks. David Cook, who leads the Division of Innovation within the Kentucky Department of Education, has been working since 2011 to find ways to keep kids learning through snowstorms and floods.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Future Ready movement grew out of the Connect Ed initiative launched by President Obama in 2013 with several goals: to connect 99% of students in schools to broadband, and to address the need for more professional learning and leadership to ensure the effective use of technology.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The 2011 ALT-C Conference is being held at the University of Leeds on a campus that is as convoluted as the maze of arguments and discussions we are enjoying. of which more in later posts from ALT-C 2011. Broadband is a human right by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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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. She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 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. She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2011, the renowned — but aging — U.S. Suddenly, space travel can enable expanded broadband access, real-time tracking for methane leaks, the spotting of wildfires before they spread and much more. But, most importantly, we must recognize that the status quo is broken. We need new thinking, new methods and new talent.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration). More common in 2010 and 2011, the early days of the current edtech investment cycle, those deals were prevalent at a time that saw an abundance of new ideas, companies and investments.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Formally launched by President Obama in 2011, Digital Promise is a national leader in procurement, micro-credentials, innovation clusters, and is home to the League of Innovative Schools. Such opportunity requires high-speed broadband in every school and Education SuperHighway is working to make that opportunity a reality.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” From Boing Boing : “Paterno was fired in 2011 after it emerged that during his tenure, [assistant coach] Jerry Sandusky had assaulted dozens of youngsters in his care. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 29, 2011

It was great to meet and talk with some very creative and inspirational people during my travels in 2011. Brechner is not ignorant of the fact that broadband provision is a necessity for such projects to succeed, indeed he even declared that 'broadband is a human right'.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The district has already spent more than $3 million since 2011 on tablets, laptops, software programs, fiber optic wiring, and engineers to oversee all the instructional technology. But computers are expensive. Colorado is famously parsimonious with its school district funding. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

" Tagged on: September 13, 2017 Back to school, back to the problem of rural broadband parity | Baltimore Sun → As students return to school, we are all reminded of the challenges created by gaps in broadband access in Maryland’s rural areas and beyond.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

" Tagged on: September 13, 2017 Back to school, back to the problem of rural broadband parity | Baltimore Sun → As students return to school, we are all reminded of the challenges created by gaps in broadband access in Maryland’s rural areas and beyond.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“The number of states planning to use the new tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016,” Education Next observed this fall , and many states and districts have opted to use the SAT or ACT instead of those assessments created by the Common Core consortia, SBAC and PARCC. ( Apple disputed the organization’s assertions.).

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. ” (In Cleveland.). Increased by just 2, but still.).

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