Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 21, 2016

The goal of Obama’s ConnectED initiative is to equip every school in the country with high-speed broadband by 2018 at speeds greater than 100 Mbps. Beyond internet capability, not every student has access to a laptop or tablet necessary for most ed-tech tools. Trouble Shooting.

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Video Broadband Classroom Digital Divide 150

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

Neuman at New York University, conducted an in-depth study published in April 2018 of 100 of the most popular videos that claim to be “educational” and stream over Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now and Google Play. Related: Technology overuse may be the new digital divide. She’s seeing mixed results.

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Video Education Digital Divide Study 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. For many, the so-called digital divide is a daily struggle, adding a sometimes embarrassing and often frustrating layer of complexity to high school life. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. But computers are expensive.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” ” According to marketing research by the International Data Corporation , “ Tablets will see a decline, then increase in 2018.” Oh VR promises. Never change. Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech). .

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Education MOOC Company Report 48