Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Over the course of six weeks, I explored digital equity and its implications for education, with an emphasis on strategies that extended learning beyond the classroom. To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. How Big Is the Problem?

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

We’ve heard a lot of talk these days about open educational resources and online courses and how these platforms can make high-quality learning available for all. The code.org campaign has been touting the potential of online courses to teach kids how to code. This article was originally featured on BoingBoing.

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Khan Academy Digital Badges Learning Libraries 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

Although they love their smartphones and devices, they were of the belief that we should “just write stuff” and that the students using iPads “would just play games.” They are the generation that sees ultrafast broadband and wi-fi as a basic right. They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. Families are also contacting her throughout the day on their smartphones using ClassDojo, a program she was already using to keep in touch. so parents can check in.

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I Soon after that, Zuberi pulled Kaja out of the school to complete his final courses online, so that he could graduate on time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

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Analysis Trends Chromebook EdTech 161

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. Now, they are employing creative methods, such as expanding the reach of the school’s broadband so students can do work from the parking lot or in the surrounding area, having off-duty patrol cars become hotspots across the district.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I Soon after that, Zuberi pulled Kaja out of the school to complete his final courses online, so that he could graduate on time. Weekly Update.

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 104

MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

When the English proficiency assessment her program uses moved online several years ago, many of its corresponding course materials also went virtual, making her program’s transition to distance learning less difficult materials-wise. A Pew Research study from 2019 found that Latinx and Black adults in the U.S.

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Tools eBook Digital Divide Broadband 43

MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I Soon after that, Zuberi pulled Kaja out of the school to complete his final courses online, so that he could graduate on time.

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 43

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. ” Another of her students has a single mother who works cleaning hotel rooms; the girl goes along and often joins the class from her mother’s smartphone. million students are still missing devices — about 5.5%. Then there’s infrastructure.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In the last few years, many schools and enterprising teachers have tried to infuse coding and computational thinking into a wide range of classes, including arts and humanities courses. Middle school in South Fayette starts the transition to specific technology skill courses, such as mobile app development.

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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. Of course finding the funds for such purchases is another story. But these are short-term solutions, acknowledges John Windhausen, Jr.,

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 215

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.” Accreditation and Certification.

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 95

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 107

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Via EdSource : “ Cal State drops intermediate algebra as requirement to take some college-level math courses.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. A Stanford student group, Stanford Students Against Addictive Devices , is protesting Apple for its role in “ smartphone addiction.” Via Edsurge : “?In

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