Edsurge
MAY 22, 2017
Gamino, New York City’s Chief Technology Officer, in an interview with EdSurge earlier this month, noting his office’s desire to close the “homework gap” caused by lack of broadband connection in homes. Something the comptroller says can be fertile ground for fraud and corruption.
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. According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 26, 2018
Efforts by the national nonprofit EducationSuperHighway to publicize how much districts pay for broadband have allowed many school systems to negotiate bandwidth deals to get greater capacity for a fraction of the cost. On Chromebook purchases, some districts paid up to $90 more for the same product and services.
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 distributed WiFi hotspots, Chromebooks and other devices when shelter-in-place orders began.
Shake Up Learning
MARCH 2, 2021
We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms! Students will be able to combine photos into a single document, crop or rotate images, and adjust the lighting. Improved performance on Chromebooks : Google has also made significant improvements to the performance of Meet on Chromebooks.
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. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing. It’s not just Kolb’s observations.
techlearning
AUGUST 30, 2018
COMCAST INTERNET ESSENTIALS PROGRAM ( www.internetessentials.com/apply ) Comcast announced it has now connected over six million Americans to the Internet through its Internet Essentials program, a comprehensive broadband adoption program for low-income families in the U.S. was launched earlier this year, QT 2.0 QwertyTown 2.0
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