The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

So giving out online assignments may require students without a computer or internet access at home to stay after school or visit a library to complete web-based assignments, which may not always be possible. Youth from low-income homes often lack access to reliable technology and the internet at home.

Tools 80

Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We When EducationSuperHighway launched, the Perry-Lecompton school district, in a rural area outside of Topeka, Kansas, still had laptop carts that teachers had to reserve if they wanted students to use computers in their classrooms.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 49

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data?

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Students participating in the program will receive either a free smartphone, tablet, laptop, or “hotspot” device that offers them access to the web. families with children in school do not have home broadband access. The Pew Research Center has estimated that 5 million U.S.

Broadband 40

Broadband Smartphone Digital Divide Company 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. The state of Connecticut thinks it may have found a straightforward solution to the problem: Give every student in grades K-12 a laptop and pay for their internet. The broadband needs to follow the kid,” Casey says. “We

Digital Divide 211

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Libraries 211

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. The latest Lenovo Education portfolio includes new laptops, running Windows 11 or ChromeOS, built to help students and teachers embrace next-level hybrid learning.

EdTech 134

EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 134

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students.

EdTech 73

EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” (Did you know he recorded his first mixtape at the Chicago Public Library’s YOUmedia studio ?). Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. The student loan company has raised $1.88

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 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.”

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

| The Hechinger Report → In three years, no one will be able to explain why it was that colleges and universities continued to hand more than half of their tuition to companies marketing and supporting their online programs – the online program managers. It’s gives fake news a business model. It is that bad.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Broadband Company 150

Hack Education

APRIL 7, 2017

Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “New Law Nixing Broadband Privacy Protections Stirs K–12 Fears.” ” The results are self-reported based on a survey administered by a private student loan company which offers loans to coding bootcamp enrollees, but I’m sure it’s all on the up-and-up. million total.

Education 47

Education Coursera Robotics Broadband 47