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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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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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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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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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. Joe McAllister is a learning environment advisor at CDW•G. Successful 1:1 Device Programs Help Students Get Online at Home.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. To learn more about the program or to submit an application, visit [link]. To learn more, visit kajeet.com and follow us on Twitter at @Kajeet. An estimated 12 million students in the U.S.

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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. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We Inside Castlemont’s media center in May 2021, Chromebook carts are completely empty.

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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.

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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.

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Chromebook Laptops Broadband Accessibility 181

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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Now, early learning advocates are even more worried about the state’s youngest learners. Early education experts argue that some of the most beneficial aspects of preschool, such as learning to share and socializing with peers, can’t be replicated online. Almost a third of all homes in the county lack broadband access.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

Students were excited about learning. “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.

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Resources E-rate Broadband Digital Divide 120

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. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

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. One unique aspect of Mat-Su’s approach to digital learning is that edtech is housed under the office of instruction.

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Technology Blended Learning Chromebook Education 140

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

But a staggering number of families lack access to the digital tools required for learning at home. households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home. What we witnessed was that organizations that had already invested in communications tools were better able to navigate the transition to distance learning.

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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. Teachers and administrators are hungry for effective ways to teach social and emotional learning,” says former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

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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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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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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

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. But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. We have seen some districts actually say, “Come check out a Chromebook.

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Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 213

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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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. I am also pleased to see that Google is offering data drops to homes in the urban core.

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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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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. After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why, even though half the school’s students still learn remotely, Santiago-Diaz and two other social workers, along with the two school resource officers, spend half their work day doing in-person home visits. The unprecedented events of the past year have taken a toll on the mental health and well-being of students of every age.

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Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Technology has become a vital component of teaching and learning, and it is considered a classroom requirement to adequately prepare students for life after graduation. Daniel Owens, partner at The Learning Accelerator. The market research firm IDC estimates that $4.9 billion was spent on software.

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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. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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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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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The software provides a combination of simple classroom control tools, student safety features and network administration tools to help New York schools deliver effective digital learning environments. We’re delighted that they have recognized the value we provide to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We We are building all of that now to make sure we’re better prepared,” he said. Are We Ready?

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

The idea was that Rachel would lead me in a craft that I didn’t know how to do, so the kids get the dynamic back-and-forth of someone learning how to do something,” said Hunter, who is the youth services librarian. “We For schools that closed and moved to online learning due to the coronavirus, digital access became a necessity overnight.

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Libraries Social Media Digital Badges Accessibility 68

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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. Today, when strong internet connectivity is all but required for learning, such gaps can serve as insurmountable barriers to learning. The broadband needs to follow the kid,” Casey says. “We

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Libraries 206

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range. For now, the district lends out to students (10) 4G-enabled Chromebooks that were donated by OpenRoom.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Pearson/Harris Poll reveals new findings on mobile device ownership and how wi-fi access impacts learning in school. High school students also saw a very modest gain in using smartphones for learning of only 3 percent from 2014 to 2015 (from 75 percent to 82 percent). The survey results are weighted to represent the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Students in grades six through 12 are allowed to take home laptops provided by the school department, and Chromebooks are now being distributed to students in grades three through five. That restriction would allow school officials to better monitor the use of the network, she said. Next page: Funding for the project.

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