Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Its platform costs between $200 and $350 a year per classroom, with lower prices if several classrooms sign up. But ReadyRosie’s growth also comes as a result of growing smartphone use among lower-income families. The company has raised no outside capital since its start. The company has about 15 full-time employees today.

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Strategy Video Company Smartphone 126

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

NOVA Science Studio, which will engage students remotely during the 2021 school year, includes workshops on storytelling, interviewing, filming, and editing, among other areas, and focuses on using devices like smartphones as the primary tool for shooting and editing.

Facebook 105

Facebook Broadband Twitter Mobility 105

eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2016

CFISD is building a 100G network with the vision of providing students and staff ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ broadband access so they can easily interact and collaborate with peers and engage in distance learning initiatives. ”

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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.

Learning 79

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 79

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 20, 2017

Disadvantages: Challenges for students without access to needed technologies, including video recorders (how many don’t have smartphones?) and broadband. Perhaps the classroom of the future, either face to face or online, is about video first, and other other media and platforms – including text – second.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. Just three days to mobilize a community of partners and volunteers to assist our schools.” Three days! so parents can check in.

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

Technology for me in the 1980s was a dodgy microfiche in the university library and then my trusty and often dusty overhead projector in my classroom. They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones. They are the generation that sees ultrafast broadband and wi-fi as a basic right.

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Social Media Learning Broadband Smartphone 40

EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2015

Frank Smith Mobile devices are more prevalent in K–12 classrooms than ever. A new survey on mobile learning from Project Tomorrow shows that today's schools are relying increasingly on students having experience with devices like smartphones and tablets to engage in modern curriculum.

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Mobility Smartphone Classroom Tablets 150

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Pew research suggests just 24 percent of US adults with less than a high-school diploma have home broadband access, while further Pew research indicates 95 percent of U.S. adults have some type of mobile device. Tasks such as using a smartphone to find the answer to a simple question—say, “What famous person was born today?”—provide

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Software Smartphone Mobility Robotics 249

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

We’d need to consider not just what technology products students are exposed to in the classroom, but also across the rest of their lives. This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. Yes, teens. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Dr. Donna Wright.

Learning 83

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 83

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They’re in the center of each floor, with regular classrooms on either side, a layout that reflects a philosophy transforming the entire district. We started being invited into classrooms,” said Owens. “We Classroom teachers take kids through Unger’s lab for one period, three days in a row, followed by six days off.

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection. A separate Pew Research Center survey found that 17 percent of adults access the internet exclusively through smartphones. Most of those are in households that make less than $50,000 a year, and many live in rural areas. the organization’s executive director.

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 216

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

” Via The AP : “Police in Vermont say a 15-year-old student was cited after approaching a classroom wearing a clown mask and banging on the windows as clown sightings are viewed as potential public safety threats throughout the country.” From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.”

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63