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Equity Isn’t Just About Technology. It’s About Supporting Students and Families.

Edsurge

But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. Maybe it is about learning new technology, but it also could be about reading a book together.” We have seen some districts actually say, “Come check out a Chromebook. Howard : I think connecting online, if you can of course, is nice.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Efforts by the national nonprofit EducationSuperHighway to publicize how much districts pay for broadband have allowed many school systems to negotiate bandwidth deals to get greater capacity for a fraction of the cost.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

This summer, as communities continue to deal with COVID-19, both public libraries and school libraries are innovating new ways to provide services for communities that reach beyond physical books and buildings. Families can pick up a Chromebook and hot spot from the library.

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Google Workspace for Education (and other updates you need to know!) – SULS099

Shake Up Learning

We have updates to Google Classroom, Google Meet, Chromebooks, and even Google Forms! I felt totally prepared after this course. Of course, free is great, but the best thing is that these tools are relevant to students, easy to use, and open doors to many new ways to learn. Chromebook Updates. Thanks so much!

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 Source: Futuresource Consulting 1.

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5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School During the Pandemic

MindShift

Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. There are backlogs of items such as Chromebooks. million students are still missing devices — about 5.5%. Then there’s infrastructure.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

"This sort of pie-in-the-sky belief that simply getting more computers in kids' hands and more app-development elective courses in schools will make the future bright is an oversimplification of a complex issue." Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

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