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.

Strategy 368

Strategy Tools Digital Divide Exercises 368

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.

Broadband 98

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 98

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.

Software 247

Software Smartphone Mobility Robotics 247

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. She also holds an MBA from the University of Virginia.

Learning 83

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 83

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.

BYOD 54

BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

Analysis 157

Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 157

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?

Data 114

Data Laptops Meeting Report 114

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?

Data 106

Data Laptops Report Accessibility 106

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?

Data 43

Data Laptops Report Accessibility 43

edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

Limited or no access to the internet has particularly undermined their remote science learning experiences. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet. Technology changed the scope of science teaching and learning during the pandemic.

Education 83

Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 83

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. ” Another of her students has a single mother who works cleaning hotel rooms; the girl goes along and often joins the class from her mother’s smartphone. million students are still missing devices — about 5.5%. Then there’s infrastructure.

Digital Divide 28

Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.” ” Spoiler alert: not enough access to data. ” “The Weak Evidence Behind Brain-Training Games ” by The Atlantic’s Ed Yong.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. More importantly, students will have better access to lessons designed specifically for their learning style. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

EdTech 112

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 112

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. The for-profit Charlotte School of Law says it might get its access to federal financial aid restored. The Business of Job Training.

Khan Academy 46

Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via Politico : “The Trump administration has removed documents from an Education Department website aimed at transgender students , including those intended to help students fight for access to bathrooms of their choice.” ” The Business of Job Training. ” Via The Washington Post : “The U.S. PHEW, RIGHT?

Education 47

Education Kaplan Coursera MOOC 47