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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation. That Broadband Gap Bar? schools had high-speed broadband connections. Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising.

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CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns

EdTech Magazine

CoSN 2018: Broadband and Cybersecurity Are Top IT Concerns. Cybersecurity and broadband/network capacity are tied for the top priorities for IT leaders in 2018, while budget constraints were marked as one of the most pressing challenges for a fourth straight year. meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 03/13/2018 - 09:56.

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Millions of Students With Home Internet Access Still Can’t Get Online

Edsurge

Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking. Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. We’re going to miss this huge number—millions—of families.”

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

Cross-posted from the Digital Education blog. The number of American teachers using games in classrooms–particularly with younger students–has doubled over the past six years, according to a large survey released last week that measures national ed-tech use. based nonprofit Project Tomorrow.

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Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. It’s important for us in education research to look at that history,” Skinner said. Subscribe today!

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What Do You Need to Sustain a Culture of Powerful Learning that Leverages Technology?

Digital Promise

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the inequitable access to technology and broadband, particularly for students who have been traditionally marginalized. A clear, inclusive, and easily accessible transformation plan. Always-available technology and broadband access. Support for parents and caregivers.

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OPINION: The biggest danger to U.S. higher education? Losing 20 years’ worth of gains in access for first-generation and minority students

The Hechinger Report

It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic poses many dangers to American higher education. Last year, my organization, the American Council on Education , released a report showing that while communities of color have made tremendous educational headway over the last several decades, substantial and pervasive inequities remain.