Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. As the years pass, the gap between Jennifer’s and Maria’s access to technology widens: Jennifer has everything she needs at her fingertips, while Maria does not. I think we all know the answer.

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System EdTech Digital Divide Education 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Unequal internet access is just the tip of the iceberg of a massive equity crisis facing U.S. According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. About 17 percent of adults access the internet from home through a smartphone only.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

In the absence of in-person instruction, educators are being forced to rely on technology more heavily than ever. But a staggering number of families lack access to the digital tools required for learning at home. households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home.

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Digital Divide Broadband Software Smartphone 109

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Despite the influx of capital, employers, schools and policymakers are only just beginning to harness the sector’s advancements in the delivery, accessibility and effectiveness of education technology. But the proliferation of technology does not come without concerns. Schools spent a decade buying technology.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The video’s simplicity and accessibility is the point for ReadyRosie, which offers parents ways to turn a chore like putting away groceries into vocabulary practice. But ReadyRosie’s growth also comes as a result of growing smartphone use among lower-income families. It’s smooth and in the pantry,” the boy says slowly. Peanut butter?

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Strategy Video Company Smartphone 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Today, online education provides access to great masses of college students in the developing world, with Open Universities in Bangladesh, Iran, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey together currently enrolling more than 7 million students. Modest by comparison, Western Governors University, the largest in the U.S., During the global crisis, 1.6

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 119

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. But time with tablets and smartphones is triple what it was in 2013. A whopping 98 percent of U.S. To her, streaming services may be a safer bet for parents.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. That’s arguably the case for U.S.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 27, 2017

A digital divide is a gap between different demographics and regions in the world that have access to technology and those who doesn’t. According to the Pew Research Center, 75% of American homes have internet and broadband access. This is a great improvement over the last 20 + years.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 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. About NOVA. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband. How Big Is the Problem?

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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. Coronavirus gave many just days.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2015

This is the chasm between the homes with and those without access to quality broadband. In rural schools, the availability of internet access beyond school and home can be difficult to obtain, while students in urban areas often can poach access from libraries, open networks in the community, or nearby fast food restaurants.

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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. ”

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 20, 2017

The technologies are already available. Teaches technological skills (video recording, audio recording, editing, publishing). Disadvantages: Challenges for students without access to needed technologies, including video recorders (how many don’t have smartphones?) and broadband.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

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. Among the most powerful principles of mobile learning is asynchronous access.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Pearson/Harris Poll reveals new findings on mobile device ownership and how wi-fi access impacts learning in school. Just 68 percent of grades 4-12 students in a recent survey said they have wi-fi access at school, though 96 percent of those same students have wi-fi access at home. With increased ownership comes increased use.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

Technology for me in the 1980s was a dodgy microfiche in the university library and then my trusty and often dusty overhead projector in my classroom. They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones. Or if you like, Generation Technology. I’m a Gen X baby. This leads to my next point.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

Each word has its own nuance, but one characteristic they share in common is access—a level, shared area with open pathways that are equidistant to mutually agreed-upon currencies. Design learning models that are inherently inclusive regardless of access to technology. student needing knowledge), and there is distinction (e.g.,

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Education Broadband Industry Accessibility 40

Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

It has a vital role in providing access to quality education on a more permanent basis. While there are video and audio tools that help bridge the physical distance, your communications strategy needs to include cognizance of the digital divide and your students’ access to these tools.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

I’ve seen this dynamic again and again in my research on ed tech, where well-meaning tech folks are creating goodies theoretically accessible to everyone, but they end up giving more advantages to kids who are already well on their way to being digital elites.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. “Three days to conduct a survey of technology needs from 130,000 students and to prepare thousands of computers for student use.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Rural communities have unique challenges, ranging from poverty and vast travel distances to a lack of affordable internet access. These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Challenges.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

At every single phase of my visit—from checking in, to the nurse evaluation, to accessing my chart for lab work—this new system wreaked havoc. Blatantly audible complaints by employees (“We have ‘this new system…’”) made it clear staff were neither trained adequately nor on board with the new technology.

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Software Smartphone Mobility Robotics 237

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Looking Forward.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

The current crisis has highlighted the disparity between students with and without equitable access to technology, especially in rural schools. One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Teachers have also been doubly challenged with the quarantine.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? 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. First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 152

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 102

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Data Laptops Meeting Report 109

MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

While especially helpful for her students with less digital experience, it also seemed to lessen the technology fatigue of her students overall. And when you lower that stress factor, they are more readily able to access the content of the lesson.” . It’s definitely an accessibility feature that everyone can benefit from.”.

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Tools eBook Digital Divide Broadband 43

MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 43

edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. Limited or no access to the internet has particularly undermined their remote science learning experiences.

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Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 77

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

They say the heart of the job right now is getting students connected with school and keeping them that way — both technologically and even more importantly, emotionally. We don’t really know, and that’s a problem, says Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution.

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Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 204

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital equity thinks of access beyond mainstream solutions and meets learners and their communities where they are, providing supports and solutions that complement their current realities. Digital access creates two very different lives and opportunities for each learner. How do people live without it?! Meet Maria.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Accessibility 163

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.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 89