The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

households lack what has become a basic need, according to a new report by EducationSuperHighway, an education nonprofit that in 2019 helped to almost eliminate the internet connectivity gap in classrooms across the country. Issues around broadband affordability disproportionately affect low-income, Black, and Latinx communities.

Digital Divide 102

Digital Divide Broadband Report Trends 102

Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

Digital learning also strengthens each teacher’s ability to meet the needs of each student, regardless of whether they are in the classroom or at home.” As we enter the new school year, we must remember the purpose behind the need to close the Digital Learning Gap.

Digital Learning 296

Digital Learning Digital Divide Broadband Learning 296

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Presented to the legislature in May 2020, the plan aimed to make education more equitable by closing gaps in device ownership and broadband coverage across the state. “We Data will be collected through fall 2021 with another data collection planned for spring 2022. We really did feel that this was an equity issue,” said Wright.

Digital Divide 198

Digital Divide Laptops Broadband Software 198

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

Reality check: A 2021 report from Common Sense Media found that 15 to 16 million K-12 public school students in the U.S. We realized that these markets were being poorly underserved, and for a lot of different reasons—for instance, it’s incredibly difficult to run broadband out to locations in the middle of nowhere.

Digital Divide 90

Digital Divide Broadband eBook Adaptive Learning 90

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Schools across the country were forced to rapidly shift to distance learning last spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the 2020-2021 school year began in the fall and teachers and students were still trying to adjust to this “new normal,” those in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program had an advantage.

Broadband 159

Broadband Learning Blended Learning Training 159

EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Of course, the trend for hybrid learning (which combines both classroom and virtual teaching settings) was accelerated during lockdown, this is here to stay even though cases and lockdown measures are declining. between 2021 and 2026. The Rise of Hybrid Environments. The Use of Augmented Reality in Teaching.

Trends 235

Trends Technology EdTech Education 235

Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

Read more on Edutopia: Addressing Race and Racism Head-On in the Classroom. Some schools are creating bubbles around a particular classroom, and our MMWR article that was done in partnership with the Salt Lake County Schools did just that: They create cohorts for each classroom.

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Resources Broadband Personalized Learning Analysis 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

Digital Divide 111

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

A lack of access to digital devices and home broadband access, distractions in learning from home, technical glitches, and unfamiliarity with online teaching and learning best practices are just some of the factors that made remote learning less effective than in-person instruction, especially for students in under-resourced communities.

Broadband 103

Broadband Strategy Elementary Accessibility 103

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

These new amendments require the State Superintendent to survey education institutions to understand students' access to computing devices and broadband connections. The FCC’s E-Rate program , a K-12 broadband subsidy, provides methods for districts and libraries to acquire discounts on WiFi connectivity.

Broadband 156

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 156

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Muri logged into the session and immediately noticed that even though there were five fifth-grade classrooms, only 27 students were in the virtual room. An initial report , which is still being finalized, states that “lack of broadband access in Ector County is a crisis.” Their response shocked him.

Broadband 145

Broadband Learning Accessibility Company 145

Education Superhighway

APRIL 1, 2020

Given the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the FCC Order: Waives the service implementation deadline for special construction for all funding year 2019 applicants and extends this deadline by one year, from June 30, 2020, to June 30, 2021. Under Commission rules, applicants must complete special construction (e.g.,

E-rate 71

E-rate Broadband Libraries Digital Learning 71

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — May 5, 2021 — To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week, Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, has partnered with EveryoneOn.org to honor teachers by helping close the digital divide for students from low-income families. According to the Pew Research Center, 15% of U.S.

Digital Divide 58

Digital Divide Company Digital Learning Broadband 58

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The program will run now through June 2021. NOVA Science Studio, which will engage students remotely during the 2021 school year, includes workshops on storytelling, interviewing, filming, and editing, among other areas, and focuses on using devices like smartphones as the primary tool for shooting and editing.

Facebook 106

Facebook Broadband Twitter Mobility 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

A high school graduate could get a job paying $15 an hour — good money at the time — without ever setting foot in a college classroom, he said. Then, in 2021, and again in 2022, the region suffered severe flooding, which washed away homes and took the lives of almost 50 residents of Southeast Kentucky.

Report 135

Report Study Accessibility Industry 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Utah, the Murray City School District had been slowly developing a broadband network for students for two years when funding from the CARES Act helped the district speed up the rollout. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. © 2021 The Christian Science Monitor.

Learning 143

Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The first year of the Covid-19 pandemic was devastating: classrooms emptied, dorms shuttered, livelihoods shattered, millions of lives lost. Then came 2021. “No The following pictures capture the tragedy and resilience that marked 2021. A math teacher at Trevor Browne High School in Phoenix teaching online in an empty classroom.

Report 111

Report Kaplan Elementary Broadband 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Before the pandemic, the state ranked lowest on the number of broadband subscribers per capita. In a fall 2021 survey of more than 100,000 Mississippi students conducted by the MDE, over 40 percent reported that digital learning was difficult because the internet connection at school did not work all the time or was too slow.

Broadband 136

Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 136

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 21, 2016

Most classrooms in the United States are Internet enabled. It suggests that the vast majority of students have access to broadband capabilities. 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. The Challenge.

Video 150

Video Broadband Classroom Digital Divide 150

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The district built up community trust and used a cautious, step-by-step reopening strategy to make it through the 2020-2021 school year with zero cases identified in school buildings. contracted COVID-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.). SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Library partnership and community.

Libraries 111

Libraries Data Broadband Report 111

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

Google just made some HUGE announcements about your favorite Google products, including Google Classroom and officially renaming G Suite as Google Workspace for Education. We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms! Some of these updates are here, and many are coming later in 2021.

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Google Chromebook Android Education 101

MindShift

AUGUST 21, 2020

As of early August, all of their districts were planning to begin the 2020-2021 school year with distance learning. Her staff spent June modifying classrooms and preparing for an in-person start to the new school year. MindShift interviewed these educators between early June and late July. Ann Levett, Superintendent.

How To 45

How To Exercises Broadband Survey 45

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. Most recently, he was named the 2021 State Superintendent of the Year for Mississippi. Challenges.

Broadband 97

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

USA, announced the launch of the A30 , the world’s first All-in-One Camera with AI Audio for the Classroom. The A30 is a multi-functional classroom tool that enhances the teaching experience by combining a document camera, web camera, microphone, and speaker.

EdTech 133

EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 133

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2023

Digital Equity Students are less likely to receive support for off-campus broadband access than they were in 2021. During the height of remote learning, 95 percent of districts were providing off-campus broadband, compared to 74 percent of districts this year.

Data 84

Data Broadband EdTech Report 84

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Host.

Learning 77

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. Individuals are stressed with doing more to cover and to supervise children when they are not in classrooms. We have horrible broadband, horrible cell service.

Elementary 142

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 142

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

We’d need to consider not just what technology products students are exposed to in the classroom, but also across the rest of their lives. It’s not like 40 years ago in the late 1970s when a single Apple II in the back of the classroom had explorers endlessly dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. Yes, teens.

Analysis 160

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 160

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As winter bears down on most of America and Covid-19 again surges out of control, pundits and parents alike are wondering when our nation’s 50 million schoolchildren will return to classrooms. In other words, even if schools reopened, it’s not at all clear how many — and which types of — families would send their kids back to classrooms.

Online Learning 140

Online Learning Broadband Report Guidelines 140

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. It is time to find the balance again. It is all about the balance.

EdTech 73

EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.”

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

EdTech 116

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

By early 2021, they had no insurance to pay for health care, no work permits to make ends meet. Before attempting to reach the US border, a child from Central America waits with relatives at the Sagrada Familia shelter, in Apizaco, Tlaxcala state, Mexico on April 9, 2021. Then, when they finally reached the U.S.,

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Policies Elementary Report System 100

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” Via NPR : “How To Apply The Brain Science Of Resilience To The Classroom.”

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom. percent from 2017 to 2021.” A report via Google Research : “ Unconscious Bias in the Classroom.”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2021

In May 2021, Selma Casagranda, 18, and Annika Nilsson, 17, ride the Nilsson family ATV along Lost Creek — the stream that floods Nilsson’s neighborhood in Seward, Alaska, each fall — and point to where a house once stood before flood waters made the property useless. It’s kind of just something we’ve gotten used to almost.”. In 2014, the U.S.

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Report System Broadband Study 99

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

But DeVos “believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom,” Edsurge writes in response to the confirmation , which I guess means ed-tech can overlook all of her horrible beliefs that further educational inequalities as long as it means more people buy digital things and hire Edsurge to facilitate that process. .”

Education 40

Education MOOC E-rate Robotics 40