Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. Unity and Unreal), blockchain and, of course, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR).

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Game-Based Learning Broadband Learning Company 166

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. What they don’t have is legal access to spectrum to carry the signal. Photo: Chris Berdik. Few would argue that EBS worked as intended.

Broadband 91

Broadband Education Policies Digital Divide 91

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

Fourteen percent of households with school-age children do not have internet access, most of which earn less than $50,000 a year. But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. Access doesn’t necessarily mean handing students devices. They may need support right now as well.

Technology 212

Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 212

Education Superhighway

MARCH 21, 2022

After experiencing the impact of the digital divide in my own community of southcentral Los Angeles during the pandemic, I became personally invested in ensuring that all households, regardless of their background, had access to quality Internet service and devices.

Digital Divide 52

Digital Divide Broadband Meeting Course 52

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Over the next few months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

Digital Divide 96

Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 96

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

It will provide more support for students who are struggling in the online environment, it will take some of the burden off of the teachers, and it will help schools support educational equity by creating greater access to services that previously were only available to families that could afford it. – temperature, lighting).

EdTech 139

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 139

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

For those preparing to take on the challenge, Digital Promise can provide guidance and help planning for each step along the way. Each section represents one of the major phases a school undergoes as it works to provide learners with ubiquitous access to technology and powerful learning opportunities. Always Available Access.

Digital Divide 96

Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility Mobility 96

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Lack of high-speed Internet prevents teachers and students from taking full advantage of the transformational power of digital learning and leaves millions of kids on the wrong side of the digital divide. High-speed broadband equalizes educational opportunity and accelerates learning. As a result, $2.5

Broadband 40

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Digital Learning 40

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2016

When schools have solid high-speed internet connections, students and teachers can access an infinite number of resources and tools that enhance learning. Read on for more: Can your internet service provider help close the digital divide? the first nation to allocate a wide swath of airwaves to deliver super-fast 5G access.

Digital Divide 40

Digital Divide Broadband Survey Accessibility 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. Once COVID broke out, it was very clear how much the achievement gap is exacerbated by inequitable access to good learning at home,” says Nick Simmons, the director of strategic initiatives for Gov.

Digital Divide 207

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Libraries 207

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

EveryoneOn is a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service, computers and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans. Cox Foundation. ” The initiative funded by the James M.

Digital Divide 40

Digital Divide Broadband Tablets Education 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

This made it difficult to run programs like Pixie or access online math games. Students now interview authors across the country via Skype and access books that match their interests and reading levels on e-readers. Without reliable [internet] access, there’s no way you can do something like that,” Tower said. Purcell asked.

Broadband 41

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

And we put it on YouTube to make it as easy as possible to access.” . School libraries have become tech hubs for educators teaching from home, while public libraries have worked to expand access to the internet, with many keeping their building’s WiFi on even when buildings were closed, so patrons can get internet access from the parking lot.

Libraries 68

Libraries Social Media Digital Badges Accessibility 68

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With the ambitious goal of closing the digital divide, Congress approved and President Biden recently signed into law $65 billion for broadband infrastructure—the largest federal investment in history. Achieving digital equity only just begins when students and teachers have sufficient access.

Accessibility 173

Accessibility Digital Divide Broadband Laptops 173

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her cellphone’s data plan — the only way she could access the internet at home — wasn’t up to the task. Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. And not everyone, of course, can get to schools to pick up meals in a region where public transport is scant. This story also appeared in HuffPost.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2020

The digital divide is real. Namely, can they provide hardware and Wi-Fi access to every student who needs it? students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet.” The answer for many school leaders has been a dispiriting no.

Elementary 49

Elementary Accessibility Google Digital Divide 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Webinars are free, but when you purchase the "Mattering IS the Agenda" toolkit you get exclusive access to the recordings. The Verizon Mobile Learning Academy (VMLA) is a free, facilitated, online professional learning course for educators focusing on developing mobile learning at the school or district level. More information.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

To give further context, I’ve sorted them alphabetically, into four categories; (1) those organizations that are instructionally-focused; (2) those that provide supports for technology leadership; (3) those that focus on connectivity and access; and (4) those that focus on data privacy and security. URL: www.inacol.org.

Future Ready 100

Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

When the English proficiency assessment her program uses moved online several years ago, many of its corresponding course materials also went virtual, making her program’s transition to distance learning less difficult materials-wise. And when you lower that stress factor, they are more readily able to access the content of the lesson.” .

Tools 43

Tools eBook Digital Divide Broadband 43

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. “That rural Internet divide is real. Then there’s infrastructure.

Digital Divide 28

Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools this year, and equity remained front and center, too, continuing conversations around inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. The role of schools in providing accessible and equitable education will come into focus.

EdTech 73

EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

Broadband 89

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 89

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

EdTech 114

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 114

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

MindShift

JULY 10, 2020

Scientists are updating their advice to reflect emerging research and the changing course of the pandemic. Nicol Turner Lee, an expert on educational technology and digital divides at the Brookings Institution, is in frequent consultation with districts around the country. Yet simple access is still a big problem.

Education 47

Education Survey Digital Divide Broadband 47

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students | Ars Technica → The role of the library in the digital age has grown thanks to cloud tools. Accessible scholarship. Transparent science.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students | Ars Technica → The role of the library in the digital age has grown thanks to cloud tools. Accessible scholarship. Transparent science.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The reporting often isolates education technology from other developments in the computer technology sector and tends to isolate education technology from education politics and policies more broadly (unless, of course, those policies dovetail with the political interests of ed-tech and ed-reform, which they often do).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40