EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . The Gap Between Technology and Pedagogy. investment in educational technology.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We had the knowledge, skills, and teacher training. Results of a recent survey of educators at participating schools conducted by our partner Westat agreed with Lubas’ sentiment, showing that prior experience integrating technology into learning made the shift to distance learning smoother. It wasn’t a shock to continue using them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

How are rural schools, which face logistical obstacles unheard of in more urban districts, finding ways to provide their students with technology? The access to technology that students have is just as varied as the students and schools themselves. Others live in familiar American suburbs.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” But lending the tablets is only part of the access puzzle. As a result, Ms. ”'

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

Meeting with other education technology and instructional leaders affirmed how multi-faceted and critical digital sustainability is for school districts right now. The year before a rollout, we’d begin training the teachers and upgrading any necessary infrastructure at the school level. However, this created an interesting dynamic.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Now, however, access to technology is becoming a rights issue.

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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. art, design, technology, sound/music, project management). Making games cultivates a range of hard skills (e.g.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . The Gap Between Technology and Pedagogy. investment in educational technology.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A type of magic happens when education and technology-driven innovation come together. Economically disadvantaged students get Wi-Fi access through backpacks. Essentially, the introduction of technology alone is not innovation. . The Gap Between Technology and Pedagogy. investment in educational technology.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Technology giants are working to bolster K–12 education in middle America , specifically targeting subjects that will help young students learn the skills they’ll need as traditional jobs like agriculture and manufacturing evolve with the rise of emerging technology. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 09/10/2018 - 13:50. education system.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2018

Thankfully, technologies such as virtual reality and collaboration software can assist with the training and recruiting of better teachers. For student-teachers, it can be a vital training ground. Recruiting talented teachers there, however, is no longer an issue thanks to videoconferencing technology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

As schools and districts struggle to move beyond the pandemic disruptions, one thing has become abundantly clear — technology will be a permanent fixture in students’ lives, whether students are physically in the classroom or learning from home. But the expanding reliance on technology is a double-edged sword. In total, 51.6

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a huge influx of education technology resources available to schools – from tablets and robotics to online platforms and digital whiteboards. However, with the sheer amount of technology available, it can be challenging to identify those resources, products, or tools that tick all the boxes.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 8, 2019

As the State E-rate Director, Milan Eaton has been working on the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative since it began in 2016. He’s been a tireless advocate for schools across the state, doing everything he can to make sure school districts have affordable, high-quality broadband so that students can use digital learning technologies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

When the transition happened in March, administrators in our region of Washington state had roughly two weeks to evaluate, purchase and train teachers to use a variety of ed-tech products — from learning management systems and video-conferencing tools to complex, interactive software. But access alone wasn’t enough.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

A version of this post was originally published on April 4th, 2019 on Education Technology. Technology has the power to harness real change and bring education to life. Technology sometimes gives the impression of adding to a workload, rather than easing it. Read more: Don’t forget about pedagogy when chasing technology!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Holding learning technologies accountable. With increased federal support to fund technologies in the classroom, expand broadband access, and put devices in the hands of more students, education technology continues to play an important role in the lives of educators and students.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Many school leaders (57 percent) also say that a lack of teacher training is the biggest barrier to expanding their ed tech offerings. Are easy to find and easy to access on mobile devices (53 percent). CoSN Calls Broadband Access Outside School a ‘Civil Right’ for Students.

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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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Education Superhighway

MARCH 30, 2022

Last year, Congress created the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new long-term, $14 billion programs, to replace the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Encourage grantees to leverage community events to facilitate ACP sign-ups.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

But today, it’s one of the highest priority issues facing school technology departments. That’s according to the sixth annual broadband and infrastructure report released by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit made up of K-12 school technology leaders. Based on responses from 386 U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. While most schools in the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Digital equity, as defined by ISTE , involves “making sure students have equal access to technology like devices, software, and the internet, and that they have trained educators to help them navigate those tools.”. Until recently, 20 to 30 percent of our students didn’t have internet access at home. are in place.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2015

New program would help low-income households connect to internet access and devices. ConnectHome will link 270,000 households, and 200,000 children, with broadband access in 28 communities including the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma. ” Next page: More about internet access and connectivity statistics.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student. She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2022

But with few trained counselors , nurses , or other professionals, and with so many other demands on educators’ time and energy , it’s hard for many schools and districts to help address students’ mental and physical health at scale. The MDE leverages the technological capacity that the MDE has built through its Mississippi Connects program.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Any Device Will Do Americans have lots of consumer technology tools to choose from, and they haven’t all made the same selections. A cellular model works very, very well.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After the tour, and during the drive to my kids’ school for a School Leadership Team meeting, I asked myself, “Why can’t all children have access to those same things?” It’s hard to talk about how technology is shaping the future if you don’t have functioning computers,” I said. My priority was technology.

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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. Implementing technology tools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. When McClary joined the district as the manager of educational technology in 2014, progress was less than stellar. of technology in practice.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

With the former, professors use technology that allows group discussions, posting of materials and other interactive features. Washington and other schools are canceling classes that require hands-on training, such as some art and engineering courses. There’s also the problem of reliable internet access.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

Over the past few years, there has been a huge influx of education technology resources available to schools – from tablets and robotics, to online platforms and digital whiteboards. However, with the sheer amount of technology available, it can be challenging to identify those resources, products, or tools that tick all the boxes.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 4, 2021

This framework includes approximately $65 billion in broadband funding but it remains unclear how those funds will be disseminated—to states directly, via a federal government grant process—and how they will be spent.

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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. –

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind. Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds.

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