eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Titled Mind the Gap: Closing the Digital Divide through affordability, access, and adoption , the report from Connected Nation (CN), with support from AT&T, provides new insights into why more than 30 million eligible households are not opting to access internet service at home or leverage the ACP. However, 82.4

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

Stay Connected K-12 provides schools the ability to offer high-speed, reliable broadband internet access directly to their students in their own homes so learning and teaching are uninterrupted. Without reliable internet access, our students don’t have what they need to learn,” said Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent of LAUSD.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. Money is an issue.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

I give the kids access to all the tools pretty much right off the bat,” said Eric Bredder, with a sweeping gesture taking in the computer workstations, 3-D printers, laser cutters and milling machines, plus a bevy of wood and metalworking tools that he uses while teaching computer science, engineering and design classes.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A report by the American Library Association (ALA) states that 88% of all public libraries offer formal or informal digital literacy programming to community residents. The System has found that many users have at least a mobile device to facilitate scanning QR codes, leading to enrollment assistance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many people witnessed the change in technology from dial-up modems to broadband. The internet is a vast space holding information pertaining to a variety of areas. This information exists in the form of images, text, and videos. Cybercriminals can access their information through an unencrypted network.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Connected Nation (CN) is launch today an online application for the AT&T K-12 connected learning program, which is focused on closing the homework gap for at-risk students by providing free AT&T wireless internet service and mobile Wi-Fi hotspots to students nationwide. Everyone belongs in a Connected Nation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We billion Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program that helps 96 percent of schools get more affordable broadband.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A new free tool launching later this year will provide critical information on K-12 internet pricing and availability across the nation. The tool, called Connect K-12, will provide actionable internet speed and pricing information on K-12 broadband connectivity across America using publicly available data from the federal E-rate program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

kids live in a house with some form of a mobile device—and those smartphones and tablets are gobbling up a greater portion of kids' screen time than ever. In addition to that hour of TV, kids are spending about 48 minutes on a mobile device. In addition to that hour of TV, kids are spending about 48 minutes on a mobile device.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mini immediately organized our scattered data and got to work pushing critical information about attendance to families by sending positive “nudges” via text messages, offering empathetic support and guidance. VIDEO: Smart Mobile Messaging. Mobile texting is the best way to ensure consistent and equitable communication with families.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. All their work is on that computer,” said Caine, “and they need that access.”. That’s why district leaders are eager to pilot an ambitious, statewide broadband initiative.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

The Kajeet Private 5G wireless platform is uniquely designed to simplify private networks and bring both private and public wireless access capabilities together in one solution. Private 5G For All The pandemic has demonstrated the importance of everyone having a broadband internet connection.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. For 2013, the focus is on a variety of challenges, from how learners access content to how the idea of a “curriculum” is defined.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. We need to change that.”. “We We can’t afford not to.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Stay Connected K-12 provides schools the ability to offer high-speed, cable broadband internet access directly to their students in their own homes so learning and teaching are uninterrupted. More information about Charter can be found at corporate.charter.com. More than 5,300 families are anticipated to participate initially.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An initial needs assessment by CCSD found that 70,000 respondents did not have a device, 18,000 did not have Internet access, and 120,000 did not respond at all. The survey results demonstrated the urgency of eliminating broadband accessibility as a barrier to remote learning. This program was called Connect2Compete.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

As part of its mission to make the scientific enterprise accessible to all, NOVA is committed to diversity and inclusiveness in all its work, from the production process to the range of stories we tell and the voices we amplify. WGBH also is a major supplier of programming for public radio, and oversees Public Radio International (PRI).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

For the first time, many students are learning in classrooms equipped with access to broadband internet and mobile computing devices. ML can help less experienced teachers make better informed decisions about their students. Recall that the first iPhones weren’t released until 2007.

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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).

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

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. The digital divide has been bridged, and every learner now has access — at school and at home. Ready to Commit. Getting to yes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1. In 1999, it merged with the Information Industry Association and took on its current name. Computers, laptops and mobile devices became more affordable.

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

The purpose is to highlight libraries and how important it is for people to continue to build their literacy skills especially when it comes to changing technologies and access to more information than ever before. But more importantly, librarians teach students how to discover and discern credible information for themselves.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Tom Hering, Director of Information Technology at Great Falls Public Schools in Montana, was in a bind. “We We were starting to [exceed] our bandwidth capacity… With our goals as a district to move towards mobile technology and online curriculum, we needed to begin focusing on [increasing bandwidth].”.

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Broadband E-rate Mobility Data 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. Most classrooms have access to at least one computer or mobile device, and 77% of school districts have high speed broadband.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2016

CFISD is building a 100G network with the vision of providing students and staff ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ broadband access so they can easily interact and collaborate with peers and engage in distance learning initiatives. This deployment builds on Ciena and Phonoscope LIGHTWAVE’s long-standing work together as well.

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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.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2016. Undergraduate Smartphone Ownership.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Assess and understand current infrastructure and broadband capabilities. At a minimum, school district leaders should consider productivity, assessment, accessibility, ubiquitous connectivity, security, needed peripherals, and storage. Estimate total cost of ownership, predict refresh cycles, and determine what will be sustainable.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 20, 2017

Joyce Valenza , an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information… and a growing number of instructors [are] asking students to send in short video responses to questions or share their arguments by submitting short video presentations. and broadband. Missing hyperlinking.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020. Mackey Pendergrast. School District.

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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. For more information about the devices, please visit www.everyoneon.org. Cox Foundation.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2012

Never before has gaining access to information been so easy. The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. Access to information is one thing.

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Microsoft Broadband Mobility Tools 64

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Key features and benefits: High-Performance Networking – A comprehensive portfolio of high-performance indoor and outdoor wireless access points provides speed, range and reliability in classrooms and throughout the campus to maximize the performance of mobile devices in high-density environments.

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Facebook Software Mobility Accessibility 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones. They are the generation that sees ultrafast broadband and wi-fi as a basic right. So why not trust students to access information, develop original artifacts and connect with an authentic audience through the use of technology in class.

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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. More information and login details at YouMatter.me. More information at [link]. More information. More information. For more information, click here.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Developed by the University of New Mexico-Taos Education and Career Center and local business partners, Taos HIVE was designed to solve challenges unique to rural communities, such as geographic isolation, education deserts , and lack of access to broadband and other services. How can students access this space?

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