Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

While there are video and audio tools that help bridge the physical distance, your communications strategy needs to include cognizance of the digital divide and your students’ access to these tools. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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Strategy Tools Digital Divide Exercises 368

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Inequity looms large.

Learning 69

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One key issue that emerged was an ongoing digital divide. That divide affected a significant share of college students in West Virginia, a state where officials say nearly 40 percent of rural residents don’t have broadband. We helped faculty to get up to an engagement process, not just delivering the academics.

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Policies Broadband Digital Divide Outcomes 129

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

An uncounted number of school days are lost due to high levels of poverty, which limits families’ access to services like healthcare, housing, transportation and broadband. Investing in vaccinations, training and equipment for teachers minimized the academic damage for students. The pandemic exacerbated these issues. Storms will come.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Accessibility 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet. The broadband speed is supposed to be up to 300 gigabytes — considered moderate usage for an American household — but it can run slow because everyone is using it, Tang says.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 110

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

And unfortunately, we know that for those who do attend college, many fail to complete, leaving millions of young people without the education and training necessary for career success. That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. College is not the only viable path to success.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 70

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 116

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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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Connect All Learners The most crucial issue to address is the digital divide. The report highlights states (Tennessee, Mississippi, Massachusetts) that have used state and federal relief funding to purchase devices and expand broadband connectivity. You can read the full report, including the other five suggestions, here.

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Digital Divide How To Learning Broadband 218

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Education Week : “ FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.” ” (Like I’ve said previously, these corporate stories really do belong in “the business of job training” section below.). The Business of Job Training. ” (That’s George Ciccariello-Maher.). .”

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

For older learners, Biden’s focus on bringing back “shop classes,” apprenticeships and vocational training received warm reception. “If We’ve also heard from teachers and parents that they didn’t know how to use these tools well. If we cannot pass a law like the one in the U.K. If we cannot pass a law like the one in the U.K.

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Industry EdTech Broadband Company 149