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.

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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. education system.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

How are rural schools, which face logistical obstacles unheard of in more urban districts, finding ways to provide their students with technology? The access to technology that students have is just as varied as the students and schools themselves. Some students live off the grid, in homes only reachable by four-wheel drive vehicles.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Now is also a time to reflect on what educational technology tools U.S. 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. Broadband improvements. K-12 schools.

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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. Cornerstone Academy.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2020

To make classrooms less crowded and prevent the spread of the coronavirus, many states and districts are considering a hybrid approach in which some students attend school and some learn from home, such as by having students alternate between in-person and remote learning. Related content: 5 ways to build a community of learners online.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Before March, the chief technology officers who keep modern classrooms connected would have agreed that new tech programs can’t be rolled out overnight. One Texas school district fielded 35,000 calls to its technology help desk on the first day of remote classes. It seems like since March we’ve not stopped.

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Hapara

MARCH 13, 2023

Schools that receive E-rate program discounts for broadband access are required to have internet safety policies with “technology protection measures.” Hāpara’s content filtering solution for schools only takes a few minutes for technology administrators to set up. Which web filtering best practices does your team use?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

This funding opportunity will allow K-12 schools and districts, colleges and universities, and public libraries to connect students to safe, reliable internet outside of the classroom. “At and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. Kajeet holds 40 U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your school just invested in a new set of Chromebooks or iPads. In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. For many schools, this isn’t for lack of technology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. To her, it was “heartbreaking.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks. Photo: Chris Berdik. Some kids come to log extra time on class projects.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Despite the influx of capital, employers, schools and policymakers are only just beginning to harness the sector’s advancements in the delivery, accessibility and effectiveness of education technology. But the proliferation of technology does not come without concerns. Schools spent a decade buying technology. A group of U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

“What you find out very quickly as teachers is not just the power of using technology in the classroom, but the power to extend learning, to carry it beyond just the school day,” says Brian Nicol, communications coordinator and, until recently, a teacher at the Wisconsin school district. Share them in the comments.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Work collaboratively to answer the question, “What do we want teaching and learning to look like in our classrooms in three to five years?”. During this step, school leaders across the district should collaborate to inventory what currently exists, from core curriculum and technology support resources, to types of devices already in place.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

Google’s affordable broadband service is already impacting some communities and schools. percent of American households with school-age children currently have broadband access at home. According to The Pew Research Center, 82.5 In some U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

10, 2018 – Impero Software, specialist providers of remote monitoring and management software for education, in conjunction with ENA, a provider of comprehensive technology solutions for education institutions and libraries, has been selected for a New York state contract covering classroom management, school safety and device management software.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

The rural district has only one public preschool classroom. He also sees an upside to more children gaining access to technology devices like laptops. Almost a third of all homes in the county lack broadband access. Nearly two-thirds of Mississippi’s 5-year-olds were not ready to enter kindergarten this year.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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Edthena

JANUARY 23, 2018

In a world where recording and uploading a social network video, a 60-minute classroom video needs to be as easy to capture and upload as a 60-second Snap. Record classroom video with just one click. The upload technology was built with the variability of school broadband networks in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Jamar McKneely (background) tours a science and technology event at Edna Karr High School, one of the schools in his InspireNOLA charter school network. The school district, NOLA Public Schools, provided some Chromebooks and hotspots that the school operator distributed to families.

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MindShift

MAY 4, 2020

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. Schools provide education, medical care, counseling services, technology, transportation, physical activity, meals and a place for kids to be.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home. The ubiquitous nature of the K-12 classroom has created some significant equity issues.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. Even in a district that’s able to send every kid home with a laptop, you’re still trying to adapt a model that’s been designed for a classroom situation.” Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well.

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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. John Kraman, chief information officer at the MDE who has overseen the purchasing of thousands of devices over the years, says, “Getting districts the technology is the easy part.”

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 118

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

Google just made some HUGE announcements about your favorite Google products, including Google Classroom and officially renaming G Suite as Google Workspace for Education. We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms! Google Classroom Updates. Learn more about storage here.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Eight in 10 surveyed high school students own a smartphone, and those same students are almost eight times a likely to prefer laptops, notebooks and Chromebooks for learning (38 percent to 5 percent). High school students and college students prefer laptops, notebooks and Chromebooks,” said Liane Wardlow, Ph.D.,

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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. patents in mobile technologies. Kajeet holds 40 U.S.

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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. Teachers themselves report a lack of confidence using technology tools in the classroom. With 99 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? We’d need to consider not just what technology products students are exposed to in the classroom, but also across the rest of their lives. First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Currently senior director of technology at Tustin Unified School District in Tustin, Calif., With its filtering system in place, Tustin USD monitors the filters at both the grade and classroom level, particularly for high school. Robert Craven has seen it all when it comes to one-to-one challenges and horror stories.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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. Doug Cofer is the technology director for Oak Ridge (Tenn.) eli.zimmerman_9856. Wed, 11/28/2018 - 12:25.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. The money is used to buy SMART boards, Chromebook carts, iPad carts and replace old desktop computers. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. The money is used to buy SMART boards, Chromebook carts, iPad carts and replace old desktop computers. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150