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The looming threat that could worsen the digital divide

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This fund addressed the digital divide by providing financial support for broadband connectivity, Wi-Fi hotspots, and connected devices such as laptops and tablets. Advocacy for the extension or renewal of ECF funding is a critical step.

Digital Divide

Digital Divide E-rate Advocacy Libraries

5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

One spot will house tables where students can connect their tablets to a large video monitor. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In

STEM

STEM Education Advocacy Libraries

How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

Students have fewer barriers to learning when they can use their tablets or laptops not only to find homework instructions, read e-books, and share important information with their families, but to create and work on independent projects, research topics that interest them, and connect with subject experts.

Accessibility

Accessibility Technology E-rate Data

TCEA 2011 Legislative Update Advocacy Panel

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Are tablets ready? The killer app in public schools will be digital textbooks. Shakespeare is free if you have an iPad. We might be able to get value return on savings on textbook purchases in order to provide 1:1 devices. What device? Do they have enough interactivity without a keyboard? Barriers are bandwith, hardware, content.

Advocacy

Advocacy Mobility Assessment Social Media

Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

Everywhere I turn I see babies, toddlers and young children with tablets/ipads and smartphones. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination. Tablets give off blue light, which has been shown to disrupt sleep patterns.

Mobility

Mobility Tablets iPad Gamification

?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. In particular, at a busy New York commuter campus like ours, students juggle schooling among other personal and professional commitments.

Mobility

Mobility OER Technology BYOD

Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

JULY 26, 2014

Everywhere I turn I see babies, toddlers and young children with tablets/ipads and smartphones. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination. Tablets give off blue light, which has been shown to disrupt sleep patterns.

Mobility

Mobility Tablets iPad Advocacy

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

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. “For

Learning

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We

Digital Divide

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey

To Raise a Reader

Reading By Example

MARCH 8, 2017

Patrons can check out titles and download them on their smartphones, tablets, and computers. If transportation is an issue, consider utilizing Overdrive , a digital library of eBooks and audiobooks. Overdrive also has dedicated pages for kids and teens. Reading aloud is an easy and enjoyable activity for any family hoping to raise a reader.

Handbook

Handbook Smartphone Libraries Elementary

eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s advocacy and perseverance extended beyond mental health services as she oversaw the district-wide launch of Hazel’s at-home physical health services, where students can meet with a medical provider virtually from the comfort of their own homes at no cost, regardless of insurance status.

Education

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary

How to Create a Twitter List of Reliable Media Sources

Reading By Example

JANUARY 27, 2017

If you read on an tablet or smartphone, I suggest downloading Flipboard to read your Reliable Media Sources list. The easiest way is to select the list within your Twitter account and read the feed. This free application offers a more visually appealing way to read tweets. You can still access Twitter through Flipboard.

Twitter

Twitter How To Smartphone Social Media

Let’s All Connect for LitWorld’s World Read Aloud Day 2016

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 3, 2016

All you need is a computer with a webcam or a free app on a tablet. We hope you will all will reflect on these questions with your students, teachers, and families and have them all respond on a Flipgrid. January 3rd Belonging Week [link].

Social Media

Social Media Tablets Libraries Google

Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

She plans to continue impacting students’ lives through advocacy and consultancy. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Dr. Garcia retires as SFPS Superintendent in June 2021.

Advocacy

Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy

How Technology Helps Social-Emotional Learning Flourish

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Technology

Technology BYOD Learning Advocacy

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. They’d rather send her home than work on the issues she was going through,” Curry said. She missed out on a lot of work, a whole lot.

Handbook

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data

Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 29, 2020

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Professional Learning

Professional Learning Technology Learning Lenovo

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Representative Stephen Meeks (R-Greenbrier) proposed a study to see when elementary schools should introduce computers, tablets and other technology to their students. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Representative Stephen Meeks (R-Greenbrier) proposed a study to see when elementary schools should introduce computers, tablets and other technology to their students. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools?

EdTech

EdTech Industry Survey Laptops

Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Data

Data Student Data Privacy Policies Training

Digital Transformation and Innovation in Rural School Districts

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Broadband

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility

School Leadership Strategies for Preventing and Responding to Cyberattacks

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Strategy

Strategy System Data BYOD

The Importance of Technology in Education

eSpark

MAY 31, 2016

Check out Tablets in SPED , Shannon's webinar on how districts can use iPads and tablets to better meet the needs of special education students. One of the most important and impactful things a teacher can do is instill self confidence and advocacy in their students. What is the biggest challenge that you faced as a teacher?

Technology

Technology Education Advocacy EdTech

Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

EdTech

EdTech BYOD Training Advocacy

What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The Collectiv8’s new optional feature is a security door that was created to help protect tablets, notebooks, laptops, Chromebooks and more. Promethean’s ( www.prometheanworld.com ) ActivPanel is the premium interactive display for immersive learning, providing a tablet-like experience at the front of the classroom.

Tools

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software

Digital Equity After the Pandemic

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

BYOD

BYOD Smartphone Accessibility Advocacy

The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Accessibility

Accessibility Digital Badges Elementary BYOD

Charting a New Path for Strategic Edtech Planning

edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

EdTech

EdTech Outcomes BYOD Advocacy

After-school programs have either been abandoned or overworked

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate. Jodi Grant, Afterschool Alliance.

Survey

Survey Laptops Accessibility Report

Leading a District Effectively During an Unprecedented School Year

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2020

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Guidelines

Guidelines Trends BYOD Data

The Technological Transformation of Districts to Benefit All Learners

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Technology

Technology Blended Learning BYOD Assessment

Cybersecurity is Still Paramount for Schools

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

BYOD

BYOD System Data Advocacy

Creating and Leading Equitable, Effective Learning Systems

edWeb.net

JUNE 25, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

System

System Learning Guidelines Policies

What the Pandemic Has Revealed About Digital Equity Initiatives

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2020

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

EdTech

EdTech BYOD Accessibility Advocacy

Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Learning

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning

Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

BYOD

BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary

Leading Learning in a Blended Environment

edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. ClassLink Analytics gives decision makers the usage data they need.

Learning

Learning Blended Learning BYOD Professional Learning

Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Online Assessments

Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD

Getting Whole Community Buy-in for 1:1 Technology Initiatives

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Technology

Technology BYOD Advocacy Guidelines

The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2017

And many of the public, government-run schools – where 70 percent of all children study – have no computers or tablets. Mindspark ’s program explains basic concepts to students that then allow them to proceed at their own pace on tablets and computers. India has also had long had a problem with keeping girls in school.

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Learning Tablets Training

Going on the Offensive: Cyber Security Strategies for Schools

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Strategy

Strategy Student Data Privacy Data Policies

The Keys to Discussing Student Data Privacy

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Student Data Privacy

Student Data Privacy Data Policies BYOD

Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

EdTech

EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes

Five Steps to Ensure Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

Accessibility

Accessibility PowerMyLearning Guidelines Policies

The looming threat that could worsen the digital divide

5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

Trending Sources

How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

TCEA 2011 Legislative Update Advocacy Panel

Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

To Raise a Reader

eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

How to Create a Twitter List of Reliable Media Sources

Let’s All Connect for LitWorld’s World Read Aloud Day 2016

Insights from CoSN Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity Winners

How Technology Helps Social-Emotional Learning Flourish

The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

Effective Technology Professional Learning: Leading and Collaborating to Assure Success

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition)

Critical Steps for Safeguarding Data Privacy

Digital Transformation and Innovation in Rural School Districts

School Leadership Strategies for Preventing and Responding to Cyberattacks

The Importance of Technology in Education

Getting Stakeholders to Back the Edtech Budget

What?s New: New Tools for Schools

Digital Equity After the Pandemic

The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

Charting a New Path for Strategic Edtech Planning

After-school programs have either been abandoned or overworked

Leading a District Effectively During an Unprecedented School Year

The Technological Transformation of Districts to Benefit All Learners

Cybersecurity is Still Paramount for Schools

Creating and Leading Equitable, Effective Learning Systems

What the Pandemic Has Revealed About Digital Equity Initiatives

Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

Leading the Digital Transformation in Rural Districts During Crisis and Beyond

Leading Learning in a Blended Environment

Inside Tips for Successfully Implementing Online Assessments

Getting Whole Community Buy-in for 1:1 Technology Initiatives

The potential, promise and pitfalls of blended learning in India

Going on the Offensive: Cyber Security Strategies for Schools

The Keys to Discussing Student Data Privacy

Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

Five Steps to Ensure Accessibility for All

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