Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students and 2.6

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Unfortunately, school closures have meant a step backward for many when it comes to the digital divide. There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. And she’s the norm, not the exception.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

What can we take from this when we return to our classrooms? And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? Regardless of whether students are learning in the classroom, at home, or a combination of the two, students are in need of greater support during this time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. The seminal Coleman Report published in 1966 showed that student outcomes inside the classroom are predicated on their circumstances outside the classroom. Summer has always been a time when gaps get wider.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Waterford.org also provides families with laptops and internet service, helping reduce the digital divide that would have prevented many low-income kids from logging on. The rural district has only one public preschool classroom. Almost a third of all homes in the county lack broadband access.

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Guidelines Laptops Learning Digital Divide 114

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s the present—except at the significant percentage of schools without reliable high-speed internet. A teacher at an elementary school in a Boston suburb leads students through a story creation session using Pixie. By Heidi Moore.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. In Utah, the Murray City School District had been slowly developing a broadband network for students for two years when funding from the CARES Act helped the district speed up the rollout. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 142

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on March 18, 2020. Inequity looms large.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2020

The digital divide is real. students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet.” “There’s a huge disparity in accessing Wi-Fi and students having devices,” says Cara Godbe, a third grade teacher at Cottonwood Elementary School in rural Montrose, Colo.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Do you co-learn with a classroom across the globe? Building Circuits in the Classroom. Joel Garcia shares his experience using Arduino micro controller boards and Sketch coding to build circuits in his classroom. What other tools are you using for programming lessons in your classrooms? More information at [link].

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Students with the internet at home could access online learning activities offered by the district or participate in virtual classrooms, while packets were provided for children without the ability to log on. The digital divide. Credit: Terri Johnson.

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Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

Aside from a clear disruption to the curriculum and lingering mental health challenges for students and staff alike, the effects of school closures have been felt far beyond the classroom. Related: OPINION: How targeted federal action could finally chip away at the broadband racism faced by Black students.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Girls Who Code. URL: girlswhocode.com. Infrastructure and Connectivity.

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MindShift

APRIL 24, 2020

And a federal government plan for reopening, according to The Washington Post , says that getting kids back in classrooms or other group care is the first priority for getting back to normal. There are only 10 students to a classroom, with just one teacher. But there are still many more unknowns than guarantees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Well, it did–but it also didn’t.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. “I’m

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.” Certainly in the 1990s , when E-rate was introduced, its goal was to address this very issue – “the digital divide.”

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