eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

. “We could be 100 percent digital and also at 100 percent low-level learning.” A Chromebook can be a digital worksheet storage hub, but it also can be a pathway to unleash genius,” because the level of student engagement comes from how a device is used – the device itself is neutral, Murray said.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Langford recently talked with EdTech about the challenges of the digital divide and practical ways to overcome them. EDTECH: What challenges related to digital equity are you facing in your district? Langford: We deployed our first round of Chromebooks to students in 2016. I don’t have a way to complete assignments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

At Kajeet, we believe internet access is a basic human right and are fully committed to efforts aimed at closing the digital divide,” said Daniel J. For a decade, Kajeet has been working with education and community leaders to close the digital divide for students, known as the “Homework Gap.”

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 20, 2022

Pre-pandemic there was an enormous digital divide. All this when Chromebooks were available for around $200 (or $50 - $75 a year per student). That is because the devices provide digital accessibility and translation. Access to the Internet The pandemic no longer allowed elected officials to ignore the digital divide.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity.

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The Innovative Educator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

If you're still talking about the digital divide, you haven't heard about Google Chromebooks. Chromebooks are not only affordable, they actually save schools, districts, and families money. Chromebooks are only about $225 and last for about three years. That's $75 a year. " I want more ».

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

Address the digital divide. As thousands of school districts across the country have rolled out remote learning, many have discovered that students have very different sets of resources when it comes to digital education tools. Some districts are shipping off Chromebooks to students.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 24, 2020

Organizations and coalitions including Learning Keeps Going , Tech for Learners , Google , and Digital Promise have also compiled lists of resources from various education organizations as well as available edtech products. Bridging The Digital Divide.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

Unfortunately, for many schools and districts, the need for digital services and software to support basic communication between teachers, parents and students across the digital divide is one that is often overlooked and underfunded. For schools across the country, there is a digital chasm.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Your school has finally gone one-to-one with Chromebooks. Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2023

So, while typical devices may get up to 10 hours of battery life before needing a charge, Chromebooks and PCs powered by Snapdragon get up to 20 hours of battery life. How else does Qualcomm address the digital divide among students? These are very tangible improvements that also help ensure learning continues after class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

This is easy for educators using McGraw Hill AR , a free app created by McGraw Hill in partnership with Verizon for Verizon Innovative Learning , an educational initiative that seeks to help bridge the digital divide with a goal of providing digital skills training to 10 million students by 2030.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

At the Innovation in Digital Education and Leadership Institute , schools looking to successfully plan a training program should give teachers plenty of time to work with the tech, stick with a few specific initiatives and have a clear vision educators will be able to follow. . Think About Device Use Outside of the Classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2021

Kajeet is mission-focused on closing the digital divide, not just in the U.S., As the world shifts to more digital interactions, Kajeet makes it possible to connect all people and things and to empower users to use these connections for good. but worldwide,” said chairman, CEO and founder Daniel J.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

I have it at my home in Lees Summit and it has met my every expectation,” said Thomas Brenneman, executive director of technology at Kansas City Public Schools , which has had access to Google Fiber since 2012 and is currently implementing Google Classroom and a Chromebook initiative in its high schools. “I

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

We have seen some districts actually say, “Come check out a Chromebook. This is our opportunity to support families and students in moving forward in their digital learning. We started a couple of years ago with a digital equity group to focus on this issue when we started seeing issues related to the digital divide.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. All of my books are online, and all of my lessons are digital. District leaders knew that something had to change, and it needed to happen fast.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digital divide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2020

New organizations like Devices for Students , a coalition of educators, tech employees, nonprofits and local businesses working to close the digital divide in the Bay Area, have sprung up alongside additional programs from established groups, like the new initiative, DigitalBridgeK-12 , from EducationSuperHighway.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

The following three resources can help students and families realize the powering of digital learning at home. Learning On-the-Go : Part of the federal E-rate program , Learning On-the-Go is a pilot program that helps schools fund wireless Internet connectivity for mobile learning devices such as tablets, Chromebooks, or laptops.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The impetus was really to close that achievement gap and that digital divide.” In all, the state has distributed about 140,000 devices—many of them Chromebooks—and 44,000 home internet connections, negotiating discounts with five ISPs, with most connections costing the state between $10 to $20 a month.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In a combined biology/literature class, students at James Lick High School complete assignments using school-supplied Chromebooks. At James Lick High School the slate-gray Chromebooks are ubiquitous. What’s unusual about James Lick’s Chromebook program isn’t the laptops themselves, but how they were paid for. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Waterford.org also provides families with laptops and internet service, helping reduce the digital divide that would have prevented many low-income kids from logging on. Waterford.org will direct $9 million toward the project. Waterford provides free devices and internet service for qualifying families to access the program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

There were drones, Ozobots, the latest Chromebooks and classroom furniture configurations. And as a person interested in digital equity, I had a chance to connect experts who were national leaders on the digital divide. Educators led energizing sessions on integrating technology.

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Insight Education Group

APRIL 8, 2021

Schools and districts will need to provide students with solutions such as high-dosage tutoring, extended days, a commitment to high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, bridging the digital divide, and additional assessments, which will require schools and districts to allocate a large portion of their budget to these solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks. In total, the homework gap hits some 12 million school-aged kids nationwide, according to a 2017 congressional report, “ America’s Digital Divide.”. Some kids come to log extra time on class projects. Others show up just for the internet.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

After struggling with what to do about the digital divide, and a parent survey showing that families were interested in digital camps, program coordinator Jenny Song said the library decided to move forward with digital programming to help parents out with long summer days at home.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

But if your district has yet to successfully implement targeted differentiation, a necessity for 21st century students, you might choose older, tried and true devices like iPads or Chromebooks, and devote your district's time and money to effectively determining and addressing unique student needs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The goal of the partnership is to help transform the future of education by: Connecting the unconnected students and communities with high-quality wireless Internet and Close the Digital Divide once and for all. Supports an open ecosystem of multiple RAN vendors. To learn more, visit kajeet.com and follow us on Twitter at @Kajeet.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

CW: In my district, every student has Chromebook, but the downside is that it’s for class use only. I have friends working in more affluent districts and those children are allowed to take their Chromebooks home. The other side of that is, let’s say the district allowed them to take the Chromebooks home.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. When we first went out, and we were distributing all these Chromebooks on the fly, we thought about just having it be optional, extended learning,” said Pamela Swanson, superintendent of Westminster Public Schools outside Denver.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

When monitored, students may also lose trust in the very tools being used to close the digital divide, and that can negatively impact equity. When the pandemic hit, the district rolled out the IT Prime program, which ensured students in all grades had Chromebooks.

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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.

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eSpark

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But if your district has yet to successfully implement targeted differentiation, a necessity for 21st century students, you might choose older, tried and true devices like iPads or chromebooks, and devote your district's time and money to effectively determining and addressing unique student needs.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The whole basis for this initiative with Verizon and Digital Promise is to bridge the digital divide,” Mansfeld principal Dr. Seth Aleshire added. It’s really a privilege.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

That schools rely on the mega-rich to fund their digital learning at all—and that those funds could dry up at any time—illustrates some of the fundamental problems with K-12 technology spending: It is inconsistent, pieced together haphazardly, and as a result impacts student technology access in disproportionate ways.

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