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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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. Of the 84 percent of low-income families who have computers and broadband internet access in their homes, a majority remain under-connected. The phrase ‘digital divide’ frames this as binary—there is no access or there’s all access,” Katz says.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

The Stay Connected K-12 offering is part of the District’s broader efforts to help close the digital divide in its communities and make it easier for all students to fulfill their academic potential. Students and their families can benefit from: Download speeds up to 100 Mbps to support video collaboration and large file transfers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

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. Related: Not all towns are created equal, digitally. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning.

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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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Education Superhighway

APRIL 12, 2021

The pandemic has made it clear that without home broadband, American’s are shut out of economic security and opportunity. The post CNN New Day Weekend: Evan Marwell Interview appeared first on EducationSuperHighway.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

One key issue that emerged was an ongoing digital divide. After all, remote learning that relies on video calls and emails doesn’t work well for students who don’t have internet access. We helped faculty to get up to an engagement process, not just delivering the academics.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. At the same time, the report cites the urgent need to close the digital divide for 2.3 million students and 2.6

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube. Brown : When I think about digital equity, I think about ensuring that everyone has equal access and opportunity. I was so happy today.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. Their family does not have a computer or broadband internet at home, so the siblings have to take turns sharing their mom’s phone to access online lessons. The digital divide. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill. Credit: Terri Johnson.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Read part 1 , part 2 (about audio) , part 3 (about video) , and part 4 (about mobile tech in education). When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

That’s one of the key findings in a just-released Common Sense Media survey tracking media habits among children aged 0-8, which also found a narrowing but significant digital divide among lower-income households, and the first signs that virtual reality and internet-connected toys are finding their way into American homes.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. On June 25, 2020, Mayor Lori E.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2016

Read on for more: Can your internet service provider help close the digital divide? The digital divide is a reality for three out of four American families, meaning approximately eight million individuals under the age of 18 are living without internet access. 5 tips for using live video in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

As a result, school district IT teams will look to vendors and broadband solution providers to support other use cases in 2021 that go beyond COVID-19, such as school bus security cameras and indoor IoT to help manage building operations (e.g. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. temperature, lighting).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos. While a pandemic shouldn’t be the impetus for giving students what they need, we can take advantage of the fact that the crisis is forcing districts to finally close the digital divide.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

However, the increasingly ubiquitous use of technology in instruction has resulted in a new digital divide between students who have home Internet access and those who do not. Promote Low Cost Broadband Offerings 3. Partner with Community Organizations to Create “Homework Hotspots” 2. Deploy Mobile Hotspot Programs 4.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. In rural areas where there is no broadband access, that isn’t the case.”. Without adequate broadband, of course, even the latest or most promising digital tools are useless.

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MindShift

APRIL 24, 2020

Specialists, such as the art teacher, offer their lessons remotely via video chat. Eskelsen Garcia of the NEA says the equity issue is acute: “What we’ve been telling [political leaders] for years is the digital divide is hurting children. To have broadband, a tablet or a laptop is not to play video games.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

On a recent summer day, librarian Lyn Hunter posted a video to YouTube on how to make a weather thermometer using a straw, rubbing alcohol and a bottle. The craft videos are part of the Chattanooga Public Libraries’ summer program for kids, called Make. And we put it on YouTube to make it as easy as possible to access.” .

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

During periods of note taking, Bradley would turn off her screen share so that her Zoom screen would only include the video feeds of her students and herself. are more likely to have smartphones than traditional computers or broadband internet at home than white adults.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. “That rural Internet divide is real. Then there’s infrastructure.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. Inequity looms large. When it comes to distance learning, you don’t have to be high-tech to be effective.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2016

However, there still exists a digital divide to conquer. Kent’s success in today’s digital world is, in part, reliant on electronic resources and timely, effective communications. On the horizon: adding video to the kiosks in five of the most common foreign languages spoken in our district.

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MindShift

APRIL 12, 2020

The digital divide is real. students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet.” “While [students are] working on today’s assignments,” Gordon says, “I am making instructional videos. ” Nguyen even posts her own video each day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The platform provides teachers with on-demand guidance from a computerized coach as they self-reflect and comment on videos of their teaching. When classrooms went online in 2020, the digital divide was amplified showing the gap between students who had, did not have, access to broadband internet and digital tools at home.

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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.

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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. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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