Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. With that in mind, here’s a guide to assess school district network needs and implement affordable broadband upgrades. School Network Structure.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The students at Maine Consolidated had tablets and laptops to access digital literacy programs like Study Island and Kahn Academy but–because of an unreliable Internet connection and extremely low bandwidth–couldn’t use them. Mark Williams.

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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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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. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. We’re all going to have to try things and give each other grace.”.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

" In other words, as education becomes increasingly digital, we must ask ourselves: Do all students have the at-home tools they need to complete their assignments? Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sifting out solutions from the struggle may help solve chronic problems of quality and equity, say education experts. After a moment of disruption – of major disruption – the conditions are ripe for accelerating innovation,” says Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education. “We Learning from Lockdown.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

In New Mexico, educators and policymakers are working to close the digital opportunity gap. While 96 percent of Americans in urban areas have access to fixed broadband, only 70 percent of New Mexicans have broadband access at home. It’s after dark, and Angel Banegas sits in the parking lot at Hatch Valley High School.

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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. 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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

But that won’t close what has come to be known as “the digital divide.”. Nearly one in four school districts still does not have sufficient bandwidth to meet the digital learning needs of students. And even before bandwidth, plenty of schools don’t have the laptops or tablets that students need to get online.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The earliest standardized test scores coming out show modest learning loss for students in math, but there are worries that the most at-risk students are not being tested at all. For this story I talked to educators in six states, from California to South Carolina. For the most part they say things have improved since the spring.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection. That can make it tough to move to a digital workflow even when classes are meeting as scheduled. According to the most recent federal data, about 14 percent of households with school-age children do not have internet access.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The reality is that these two stories come from conversations and interviews with educators, caregivers and students in the United States from the Southwest to the East Coast with statistics that back up these personal narratives. The device's apps and content are key to building advanced digital skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thinking about whether and how such obfuscation techniques might be applied in education by privacy-minded students or educators (in PreK-12 or postsecondary settings) is…hard. Educators and students are compelled to use centrally purchased tools, data systems, and popular social media platforms.

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