Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of emergency remote learning dramatically accelerated the push toward 1:1 computing initiatives that was already underway.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 122

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers. To learn more, visit?

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Broadband Digital Divide Chromebook Libraries 90

EdTech Magazine

JULY 24, 2018

For the past decade, bringing digital equity and broadband access to U.S. families with school-aged children — most of them low-income — lack broadband access at home, reports the Pew Research Center. Despite that, many teachers assign digital homework that requires web access. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Broadband Chromebook Tablets Accessibility 207

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

No longer just a haven for dusty books and stern shushes, the library is now a place for digital resources and makerspaces and flexible learning. As such, modern libraries should be outfitted with robust broadband and plenty of places for students and educators to charge equipment. Today’s school libraries are being reinvented.

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Libraries Laptops E-rate Broadband 406

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The internet has made it possible for learning to take place everywhere, all the time. Nothing illustrates this better than a one-to-one classroom , where every student has access to a computer. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 districts are successfully rolling out Chromebooks in their schools. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Broadband Chromebook Data Libraries 263

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Learn how mobile apps might help close the “homework gap.”.

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Digital Divide Broadband EdTech Chromebook 210

eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Empowering Learning Anywhere by combining Kajeet’s public & private wireless networks with Google’s Chromebook and Classroom EDU solutions. Many school districts aspire to provide adequate off-campus broadband access to their staff and students. To learn more about Kajeet Private 5G, visit Kajeet Private 5G Platform.

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Digital Divide Google Broadband Chromebook 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

At Kajeet, we believe internet access is a basic human right and are fully committed to efforts aimed at closing the digital divide,” said Daniel J. and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. Neal, chairman, CEO and founder of Kajeet.

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Libraries Digital Divide Broadband Software 91

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Technology giants are working to bolster K–12 education in middle America , specifically targeting subjects that will help young students learn the skills they’ll need as traditional jobs like agriculture and manufacturing evolve with the rise of emerging technology. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 09/10/2018 - 13:50.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Earlier this month, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released their report, The Broadband Imperative II: Equitable Access for Learning. In it, education leaders advocate strongly for policymakers to increase broadband internet access in support of student learning.

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Broadband Report Blended Learning Chromebook 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When we went into shelter-in-place on March 17, we were clearing out Chromebook carts [not only] for students but also for our own employees. Then his team had until the end of spring break to execute a remote learning strategy for the district’s more than 41,000 students. Overnight they became tech support for the entire community.

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Chromebook Laptops Broadband Accessibility 185

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. All their work is on that computer,” said Caine, “and they need that access.”. Some kids come to log extra time on class projects.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Mobility 84

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. 1 at the elementary level.

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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 64

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Thousands of Mississippi children will have access to the software this summer as part of an effort to support incoming kindergarteners during the coronavirus pandemic.Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Now, early learning advocates are even more worried about the state’s youngest learners.

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Guidelines Laptops Learning Digital Divide 113

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

– SULS099 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. During “ Learning with Google ,” a free online learning event for educators, Google shared a lot of updates to our favorite Google products. We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms!

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Google Chromebook Android Education 101

Education Superhighway

MARCH 7, 2017

Also, teachers were asking to use more instructional programs to help students with their unique [learning] needs – but they all required the Internet.”. As a result of the fiber upgrade, teachers in Jal are now able to offer their students full access to digital learning.

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Digital Learning Accessibility Broadband Chromebook 45

Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

These concerns are real and often become roadblocks for student learning. As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Commit to Ensuring Equity in Access and Opportunity.

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EdTech Future Ready Social Media Broadband 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Chromebooks. With 1:1 initiatives increasingly being either considered or implemented across the US, school districts need an affordable and easy-to-use device for their students: enter, Chromebooks. These devices and the included applications like Google Docs support collaborative learning. Broadband improvements.

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Broadband Technology Chromebook Tools 57

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

But a staggering number of families lack access to the digital tools required for learning at home. To date, much of the discussion around the digital divide has focused on the lack of devices and internet access: Only 56 percent of U.S. households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home.

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Digital Divide Broadband Software Smartphone 109

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

Students were excited about learning. Something else that was immediate and dramatic: the gap between students who had Internet access at home, and those who didn’t. “You can’t just send them home with an assignment or some research to do, because they have no access.”

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Resources E-rate Broadband Digital Divide 120

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The access to technology that students have is just as varied as the students and schools themselves. After conducting a survey in 2015, district leaders found that while a surprising number of students have access to broadband, the biggest obstacle to technological access rural students face is the lack of devices.

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Technology Blended Learning Chromebook Education 141

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

Fourteen percent of households with school-age children do not have internet access, most of which earn less than $50,000 a year. And research indicates that students from low-income backgrounds could fall further behind their peers if learning stops too long and the country sinks into recession. PT / 2 p.m.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 215

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

One overused catchphrase in education is that learning should be “student-centered.” A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010.

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Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 153

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.

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Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 102

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In numerous recent interviews, educators have told NPR they’re concerned the rural-urban divide will only worsen if kids can’t get online to learn. Most live on the Fort McDermitt Reservation and about 75% have no Internet access at home. Rural-urban divide. “We’re 80 miles from a WalMart.”

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Broadband Learning Chromebook Tablets 48

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Some might not have a Chromebook or internet. Of course, teachers want their students to master content, develop a love of learning and move on to the next grade. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. On Monday, Rose learned the student’s father had died. And now it’s all taken away.”

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Private equity and venture funds have invested record sums into the global education sector—$30 billion in the past five years across K-12 and workplace learning. Today, 95 percent of teenagers have access to a smartphone, and the average teen is now spending more than 7 hours per day on their screens , including over 1.5

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Trends EdTech Education Company 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. We headed into a fourth year of learning in the pandemic’s shadow. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on expert predictions for edtech.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 68

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Connected Nation (CN) is launch today an online application for the AT&T K-12 connected learning program, which is focused on closing the homework gap for at-risk students by providing free AT&T wireless internet service and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots to students nationwide. Everyone belongs in a Connected Nation.

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Mobility Broadband Chromebook Laptops 53

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. School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 71

MindShift

MAY 4, 2020

schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matter of weeks in large school districts.

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Learning Chromebook Broadband Meeting 68

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

Google’s affordable broadband service is already impacting some communities and schools. The latest Digital Equity report from the Consortium of School Networking paints a rosy picture of an educational environment where students have generally good access to high-speed wi-fi while in school. In some U.S.

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Digital Divide Broadband Google Chromebook 40

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 A (Electronic) Textbook Case of Disruption | The American Interest → Schools are starting to take advantage of cheap tablets and open-sourced learning materials to give their students touchscreen, on-demand textbooks that—and here’s the kicker—can save school districts millions of dollars every year.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 A (Electronic) Textbook Case of Disruption | The American Interest → Schools are starting to take advantage of cheap tablets and open-sourced learning materials to give their students touchscreen, on-demand textbooks that—and here’s the kicker—can save school districts millions of dollars every year.

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EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Create a shared vision for what teaching and learning should look like three to five years down the road. Work collaboratively to answer the question, “What do we want teaching and learning to look like in our classrooms in three to five years?”. Assess and understand current infrastructure and broadband capabilities.

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Chromebook Tablets Broadband Assessment 100

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2020

Tate Reeves has allowed school districts to reopen for summer learning programs, even as the state’s rate of new coronavirus infections has shown few signs of receding. But while several districts are sticking to distance learning only, a few will offer in-person sessions for students who need extra support to be ready for the fall.

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Broadband Software Report Chromebook 78