Doug Levin
JULY 24, 2017
Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S.
Neo LMS
JULY 12, 2018
A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. Some studies have shown that enabling such households with mobile, rather than broadband, internet creates a more flexible solution, as these types of households tend to relocate more frequently.
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Neo LMS
JANUARY 4, 2018
I mined their 2017 report for some details to guide our thinking on the digital divide with regard to education. Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the last decade you will also know that mobile is booming: the statistics bare this out with a 20% year-on-year increase in the uptake of mobile broadband (data) subscriptions.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 14, 2022
Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.
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 initially launched a pilot program in Mississippi in 2017. He also sees an upside to more children gaining access to technology devices like laptops.
Edsurge
JUNE 23, 2020
Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable. Broadband internet access and cloud computing made it easier to distribute educational software once sold on floppy disks and CD-ROMs. The move follows in the footsteps of Content in Context, once a hot stop for education publishers, which held its last event in 2017.
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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