EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

For school districts implementing e-learning plans, a key concern is ensuring equity and access to learning materials for all students. Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home.

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E-rate How To Learning Accessibility 150

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The nonprofit broadband advocacy group found nearly 45 million students enjoy in-school access to high-speed internet connectivity, up from 39 million in 2017. According to the group, 98 percent of public schools have next-generation fiber infrastructure, and 96 percent have enough connectivity to support online and digital learning. .

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E-rate Broadband Advocacy Report 254

Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Because these resources are open to use, when you share an OER, other educators across the globe can access it and use it in their classrooms. Developing K-12 OER that are accessible online.

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Digital Promise

JULY 20, 2020

Why is it so important to have a strong research base to our web app, the Learner Variability Navigator (LVN), and its factors of learning? Bringing that research together can raise awareness of how to teach the whole child. What do you think could be the reason they rate it lower than peers and instinct?

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Professional Learning E-rate Learning Strategy 191

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

Building out the infrastructure to support high-speed Internet access requires multi-layered collaboration between state and district leaders, school administrators, and service providers. students equal access to a robust, modern education, regardless of their socioeconomic background. HOW TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR RURAL AMERICA.

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Broadband Accessibility Digital Learning E-rate 58

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

Building out the infrastructure to support high-speed Internet access requires multi-layered collaboration between state and district leaders, school administrators, and service providers. students equal access to a robust, modern education, regardless of their socioeconomic background. HOW TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR RURAL AMERICA.

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Broadband Accessibility Digital Learning E-rate 40

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

As a result of their efforts, teachers have seen far greater opportunities to marry critical thinking with digital learning in their classrooms. Merritt solicited the support of its E-rate consultant, Julie Watson, who provided invaluable advice on how to fund an upgrade. The Path to a Successful Upgrade.

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Digital Learning Guidelines E-rate Edcamps 92

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2022

Despite being capable of working a variety of jobs, people who are blind or visually impaired tend to have low job placement rates, low salaries and an unusually high underemployment rate. But some advocates say that more-accessible tech platforms could be a key to changing that. The company, Clusive, Inc.,

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Online Learning E-rate Training Software 164

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Academy participants make a positive impact on student-centered and digital learning in their school district and enhance their career trajectory. 00:05:07 Speaker 2 Tool curriculum has gone digital. Transcript 00:00:04 Speaker 1 OK, Kelly, thanks so much for joining me today. I really appreciate it.

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E-rate Industry Accessibility EdTech 101

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In education, software programs lend a helping hand just about everywhere, from device ­management to digital learning. Soon after Putnam County School District adopted GoGuardian internet content monitoring, it detected four troubled students making Google searches that were variations on the query “how to kill yourself.”

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Tools E-rate Chromebook Policies 333

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Over the past eight years, WANRack has worked with schools and communities to close the digital divide and ensure students have access to digital learning in every classroom, every day. With the increasing use of technology as a tool for learning, students and teachers need more than basic connectivity.

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Digital Divide E-rate Broadband Digital Learning 70

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You learned how to Zoom, or Hangout, or Team up. Care, Communication, Support: Core for Designing Meaningful Online Collaborative Learning ,” by Heather Robinson, Whitney Kilgore, Scott Warren (article), offers insight about communication and collaboration online. Lang (book), provides ideas on how to engage learners.

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Course E-rate Flipped Classroom Education 211

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? We continue to just stretch our brains creatively about how to, in a very safe way, get those students access to resources.”.

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Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 250

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

Statewide ed-tech inventories are helping state leaders assess their digital learning needs. It was the 100-percent response rate from the survey. “We We knew most districts and schools would respond, but a 100-percent response rate shows that technology is a high priority for education leaders throughout the state,” he said.

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Digital Learning Assessment E-rate Survey 40

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. So it should be with E-Rate.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 28

Hapara

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] A digital learning platform is designed to make teaching easier by allowing educators to manage and individualize lessons and evaluate students. To get the maximum out of any digital learning platform your school uses, your operators need to be well-trained and skilled.

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Training Digital Learning How To EdTech 157

eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new edtech before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. This holds true for any school district, but in rural communities, where general access to technology is often limited, it is especially important.

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EdTech E-rate Education Data 52

Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. In a school environment, the two main drivers of how much network bandwidth you need are: 1. This is a direct reflection of your district’s learning goals.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 13, 2019

Thanks to public E-rate data, state partners, and a national survey , we’ve been able to clarify roughly 98% of school connectivity data and report on the state of Internet in education. Here’s how broadband data provided by school districts across the nation helps improve educational equity for America’s students: 1.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 18, 2018

“We need to make sure there’s equal access [for] all kids. All kids need to have access to these tools… when that didn’t exist, it created this sense of urgency.” The California state team provided guidance on the E-rate RFP process and developed a Form 470 strategy.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 58

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. Mindful pairing of digital resources to learning outcomes is an excellent way to ensure that any blended learning program will produce the desired learning outcomes.

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Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 121

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Having high-speed access in school networks is now a necessity in every child’s education.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 64

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 10, 2017

As you work to set your district’s students and teachers up for success in the 2017-2018 school year, now’s a great time to consider their digital learning opportunities. In today’s classrooms, basic Internet access is not enough. Having high-speed access in school networks is now a necessity in every child’s education.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Tools 63

Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. The main concern while publishing content is the quality of the final output which will be accessed by students. Easy to Publish.

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eBook E-rate Libraries Software 64

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

This kind of connectivity is necessary, the authors note, to help connect students to high-quality digital learning opportunities. It also highlights state leaders who have helped their states put these digital learning opportunities directly in front of teachers and students. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

An overview of how to collaborate across functions to ensure student safety 24/7. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Leaders & Decision Makers, Digital Learning and Instructional Technologists, IT Admins, Network Admins, IT Security, IT Infrastructure roles, School Counselors, Safety leaders, and SROs. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

According to the most recent figures from Funds for Learning, E-Rate applicants nationwide requested almost $748 million in discounts against the purchase of just over $1 billion in Category Two products and services, which are detailed in this chart (right). How do they use those devices? ?

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Chromebook E-rate BYOD Online Assessments 40

eSpark

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Many teachers worry that they will need to spend hours learning how to use new technology before being able to successfully implement it in the classroom. This holds true for any school district, but in rural communities, where general access to technology is often limited, it is especially important.

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EdTech Education E-rate iPad 40

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

An overview of how to collaborate across functions to ensure student safety 24/7. 2:38 We know that the Digital Learning Divide refers to inequitable access to technology and digital resources for learning. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Fears about digital learning tools are especially tricky because they’re primarily emotional, not logical.

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Digital Learning Technology Mobility E-rate 80

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Ensuring wi-fi access at home or on the school bus is a top priority for a district still planning its one-to-one. Add concepts like blended and flipped learning to the equation and you come up with yet another to-do list item: Make sure students can actually use their devices when they aren’t physically on campus and within wi-fi range.

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E-rate Chromebook Accessibility Flipped Classroom 40

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2022

For students, the ability to access their learning materials at any given time is a significant benefit. Edtech tools like learning management systems (LMSs) include all materials in a single place. Read more: How to get started with hybrid teaching. Asynchronous learning for more freedom. DEI trends for 2022.

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Trends E-rate Education EdTech 461

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2016

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Training staff emerged as the biggest challenge, with procuring and maintaining hardware a close second.

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E-rate Survey Policies Technology Support 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 14, 2016

Slow or unreliable internet access was also a problem, with 28 percent, citing it as a very significant barrier. The first is that they’re selling to a confident group of users—though the reality is that educators may need plenty of support knowing how to use technology effectively. De Jesus for Education Week.

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