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Changes to Federal Broadband Benefits in 2022

Education Superhighway

As of December 30, 2021, the federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) will end and begin officially transitioning to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). Administered by the Universal Service Administration Company (USAC) , this legislation will still provide a monthly subsidy and funds toward a connected device.

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. They’re building their own countywide broadband network. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Cleveland Metropolitan School District Deploys the Stay Connected K-12 Solution from Spectrum Enterprise to Enhance the Learning Experience for Students Needing Robust Home Internet

eSchool News

Stay Connected K-12 provides schools the ability to offer high-speed, cable broadband internet access directly to their students in their own homes so learning and teaching are uninterrupted. Users can enjoy: Download speeds up to 50 Mbps to support video collaboration and large file transfers. About Charter.

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How Indian Tutoring App Provider Byju’s Got So Big

Edsurge

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

If teachers want kids to use online resources in class, they must take home a classroom set of laptops and download the information to each computer in preparation for the school day. Imagine how many customers a company could get running 10 miles of fiber somewhere else. They can’t access online encyclopedias. These districts serve 6.5

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Announcing Speakers Plus Bonus Downloads for "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

PLUS we'll immediately send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 10 websites, 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. He holds an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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RealNetworks Provides SAFR Facial Recognition Solution for Free to Every K-12 School in the U.S. and Canada

techlearning

SAFR for K-12 can be downloaded by schools beginning today at www.realnetworks.com/safr/k12. Wyoming is unique in its commitment to working with new innovations and America's leading technology companies," said Wyoming Governor Matt Mead. Other products and company names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective owners.