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. But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube. They may need support right now as well.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 216

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

On a recent summer day, librarian Lyn Hunter posted a video to YouTube on how to make a weather thermometer using a straw, rubbing alcohol and a bottle. And we put it on YouTube to make it as easy as possible to access.” . The craft videos are part of the Chattanooga Public Libraries’ summer program for kids, called Make.

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Libraries Social Media Digital Badges Accessibility 68

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge.

Learning 71

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 71

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

We would like for them to watch a video; we would like for them to do a drill-and-kill online. Now, our advanced students–when we give them technology, we ask them to create with it–create a video, or a slide deck, or make a movie. The other side of that is, let’s say the district allowed them to take the Chromebooks home.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Training 118

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Watch FOX19’s coverage of the Cincinnati rollout event: Jewel, a student at Sayler Park, served as a new correspondent for Verizon Innovative Learning in this video: Both schools in Glendale Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, rolled out earlier this month. After helping at Challenger Middle School’s event on Sept. 4, Melvin E.

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iPad Learning Digital Divide Elementary 148

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. Census data, and the divide among states in internet accessibility is apparent. That's a lot of computers. Other districts ought to consider the possibilities.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There are backlogs of items such as Chromebooks. “That rural Internet divide is real. And the digital divide is about more than equipment.

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Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 30, 2018

He is passionate about helping educators transform teaching and learning through technology integration and closing the digital divide through equitable access to technology for all students. They wanted me to share with other educators how I was using Chromebooks and G Suite in Education in my high school English classroom.

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Google eBook Video Digital Divide 78

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For the last few years, the local government — with schools, the telecommunications company EPB of Chattanooga, and nonprofits — has run “HCS EdConnect,” a program through which schools give Chromebooks, tablets and free training on the skills needed to use smart technology and the modern internet system. Those resources seem to work.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 106

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Students now have access to a wealth of information at their fingertips, allowing for self-directed exploration and reinforcing classroom concepts. This digital ecosystem not only enhances academic knowledge but also cultivates digital literacy skills essential for the modern workforce.

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Trends Digital Divide EdTech Adaptive Learning 98

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside. "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. Rural Arizona keeps falling behind. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools this year, and equity remained front and center, too, continuing conversations around inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. The role of schools in providing accessible and equitable education will come into focus.

EdTech 69

EdTech Learning Industry Data 69

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

While it may seem quaint or old fashioned to some (when accessing WiFi and on-demand videos seem de rigueur), it has been part of my travel routine for too many years to casually cast it aside. "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. Rural Arizona keeps falling behind. This is ALSO true for edtech.

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EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

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, Viral School Videos. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Via WaPo : “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “ Amazon Joins With Purchasing Group to Give Schools Access to Online Marketplace.” Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”

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Education Company MOOC Khan Academy 45