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Kajeet Awards $550,000 To 22 Organizations for Purchasing Connectivity Solutions That Drive Digital Inclusion in Education

eSchool News

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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Kajeet Announces Launch of 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program for K-12 Schools and Districts, Colleges and Universities, and Public Libraries

eSchool News

and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. “Providing a more equitable future for students everywhere is a top priority at Kajeet and we are thrilled to once again offer a grant opportunity that will help schools and libraries provide critical resources.”.

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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

Edsurge

Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. Edtech providers are as vulnerable as their peers in other industries. Schools spent a decade buying technology. Now they want it to work.

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6 Edtech New Year’s Resolutions

Tom Murray

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow. With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016.

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

The Hechinger Report

billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 To buy Chromebooks, the most-purchased device on the ed tech market , school districts can check prices from Google, Acer, Samsung, HP and others. The market research firm IDC estimates that $4.9

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Kajeet to Bring Next-Gen Private 5G to Schools & Students Across America in Partnership with Google Cloud

eSchool News

Empowering Learning Anywhere by combining Kajeet’s public & private wireless networks with Google’s Chromebook and Classroom EDU solutions. Many school districts aspire to provide adequate off-campus broadband access to their staff and students. Supports an open ecosystem of multiple RAN vendors.

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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. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010.

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