Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2020
She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. According to the Code.org Advocacy Coalition , across 24 states, only 27 percent of schools serving low-income students offer computer science courses, compared to 41 percent of schools serving their high-income peers. “Gap-closing”
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 14, 2021
At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 22, 2020
Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.
Edsurge
AUGUST 5, 2017
Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside are currently looking into this, and developing a polymeric material that could enable smartphone screens to repair themselves.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2018
Those entrepreneurs have created a platform, and company, called Siembra — a Spanish word for sowing seeds — that reaches out to low-income, first-generation and racial and ethnic minority high school students on their ever-present smartphones, nagging them to stay on track the same way college-educated parents of wealthier kids do.
MindShift
MARCH 29, 2018
Those entrepreneurs have created a platform, and company, called Siembra — a Spanish word for sowing seeds — that reaches out to low-income, first-generation and racial and ethnic minority high school students on their ever-present smartphones, nagging them to stay on track the same way college-educated parents of wealthier kids do.
edWeb.net
AUGUST 19, 2021
In Desert Sands, for example, they wanted to make sure all students could be connected no matter where they lived, but using different service providers—the typical solution—would prove costly over the years. She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. Innovation.
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