The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2017
But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. They’re building their own countywide broadband network. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.
eSchool News
MARCH 11, 2024
Given our district’s size, we distributed devices to 30 or 40 schools at a time beginning in 2014/2015. If we do not have enough broadband to facilitate seamless learning experiences, our students will suffer. One way we achieve the balance is through our software request process.
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Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2019
No More Predictions One of the assumptions behind the Gates’ prediction is that the growth of instructional software will replace textbooks. When I told you about this type of software in previous letters, it was mostly speculative,” Bill Gates wrote in his annual letter this year. From 2011 to 2014, U.S. Sliwerski recalled.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 30, 2019
But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014.
Edsurge
JANUARY 1, 2020
In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. Technology can be pen and paper, or adaptive software, or whatever is most helpful for the learning task at hand. This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2017
Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. edtech industry. These financiers include endowments, foundations, family offices, education companies and a sovereign wealth fund.
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