Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

On July 13, 2017, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that the state had connected Glen Rose School District, the final Arkansas district awaiting high-speed Internet connectivity. In a July 2017 statement , FCC Chairman Ajit Pai designated August as Rural Broadband Month at the agency. You can find the proposed meeting agenda here.

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Broadband Accessibility Digital Learning E-rate 40

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. Maker Learning and School Leadership.

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Digital Divide iPad EdTech Competency Based Learning 175

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.

Technology 166

Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 166

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

A blogger , speaker, author, technology advocate and prominent voice in social media, Rafranz Davis aims to bridge the digital divide in schools. She is the winner of ISTE’s Outstanding Leadership Award 2017 and holds many other industry distinctions, including a Microsoft Innovative Education Expert and Global Minecraft Mentor.

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EdTech E-rate Trends Microsoft 150

eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Our K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum along with our Connecting Families program give schools and communities a foundation for addressing these critical topics in and out of the classroom. For Digital Citizenship Week this year (Oct. Tips for teaching students with Autism about digital citizenship.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Digital Divide Twitter 79

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Since EducationSuperHighway began, creating digital learning opportunities for all children has motivated us to ensure that digital equity is a nationwide reality in our education system. According to 2017 data from the Federal Communications Commission: 2 million students and 2.6 So where do we stand?

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Report E-rate Digital Divide Broadband 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The digital divide is showing real signs of narrowing—but there are still 6.5 Overall, more than 39 million students enjoy bandwidth speeds to support digital learning. Even when these benchmarks are hit and every school can boast a fiber connection, it won’t be nearly enough to close the digital divide.

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E-rate Report Broadband Digital Divide 68

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

School leaders “should be keenly aware that this is not just a one-time thing,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the nonprofit Learning Policy Institute and of California’s State Board of Education. “If The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. For example, Thompson has leveraged the Labdisc All-in-One Science Lab from Boxlight to elevate the learning experience for his students.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 124

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning. Sometimes an LMS discussion will help and other times integrating with another tool can be beneficial. Perhaps a digital learning journal could be employed to promote reflection.

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And now, the final weeks of 2016 revolve around what will happen after January 20, 2017. Cambridge Analytica, a company on whose board Trump’s campaign manager and now chief strategist Steve Bannon sits, used Facebook “as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans.”

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40