Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. Thus, there is a homework gap—the problem created when students who use digital learning in class can’t get online at home to finish up their schoolwork.

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Broadband Digital Divide Libraries Company 147

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 144

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight. About the Presenters.

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Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

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Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

Last-minute decision-making is the new normal, as schools and districts vet a multiplicity of strategies and applications to support their reliance on digital learning in a pandemic. No matter the Day One plans in your local area this fall, every school district must be ready for partially or fully remote school days.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Outcomes 143

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 9, 2017

With just over two million people living in New Mexico and almost 700,000 of them spread across rural regions, many New Mexico students still lack access to the high-speed broadband necessary to take advantage of digital learning in the classroom. Learn more about our Broadband Upgrade Consulting Program.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Montana Governor Steve Bullock announced today his commitment to connect every K-12 classroom in the state to high-speed Internet in order to support digital learning and equal opportunities for all Montana students. We simply cannot continue operating with 500 elementary students sharing 100 Mbps of bandwidth.

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Broadband E-rate Classroom Digital Learning 40

Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

One year ago we launched the Massachusetts Digital Connections Initiative in partnership with Governor Baker’s Office, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), and MassIT. The report showed that 47% of students lacked the minimum connectivity (100 kbps per student) necessary for digital learning.

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Digital Divide E-rate Secondary Classroom 40

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside the Classroom Report , by the Department of Education, identified the three main causes of digital inequity as access and cost of high speed broadband and the lack of understanding by school families as to the importance of internet to support their students’ education.

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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 55

Education Superhighway

MARCH 28, 2019

Thanks to Robin’s collaborative efforts to upgrade Rappahannock’s network, her students and teachers now have more than enough bandwidth for their digital learning needs. .” HER IMPACT. While they were previously stuck on a 150Mbps cable connection, they now have 500Mbps of fiber that is capable of scaling to 1Gbps speeds.

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E-rate Broadband iPad STEM 65

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Here are just a few of their stories.

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Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Regardless of whether students are learning in the classroom, at home, or a combination of the two, students are in need of greater support during this time. Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. temperature, lighting).

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

The availability of broadband: There’s so many ways to get it. We talked to our friends in Miami. At this point, there’s no excuse to not have devices in the hands of kids that work. The cost of devices have gone down so much. Those are all solvable problems, and they’ve been solved across the country.

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Broadband Technology Tools Report 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

In Utah, the Murray City School District had been slowly developing a broadband network for students for two years when funding from the CARES Act helped the district speed up the rollout. The researchers found that most of these solutions are short term, however, and will require more funding.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 143

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. Before the pandemic, the state ranked lowest on the number of broadband subscribers per capita. Nearly two-and-a-half years into the pandemic, the effort to increase broadband availability is far from over.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 138

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Both have had long careers at Brevard and have worked closely to implement technology into the schools’ digital learning programs. Overcoming Obstacles to Digital Access. Mr. Fitzgerald saw an opportunity to plan ahead and set the schools up for future digital learning success. Shifting Their Strategy.

Digital Learning 74

Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 74

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Prior to my role as the Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools ® , I spent 14 years in a public school in Pennsylvania as an elementary and middle school teacher, middle school and elementary principal, and district level technology director. Organization: Future Ready Schools ® (Part of the Alliance for Excellent Education).

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Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 161

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

. “Most of what our staff does is show up committed and dedicated — they really take care of these kids and make sure that they’re safe, that they’re healthy, that they’re happy, they’re eating, they have clothes,” says Amy Creeden, an elementary school principal. “You become very attached.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high. For rural communities that are committed to providing all of their students with options for digital learning, the transition is often a multistep process.

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Accessibility How To Broadband Advocacy 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

Tang now works part time as a tutor at DuPont Elementary, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet. Tang appreciates the internet, which has helped her kids with school and saved her from stressing about her broadband connection.

Broadband 112

Broadband Accessibility Chromebook Digital Divide 112

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

schools accessing high-speed broadband, and devices all but ubiquitous in the classroom, the question is no longer whether teachers and students are using technology, but how. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing.

Technology 113

Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 113

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

At least two other schools — including Keams Canyon Elementary on the Hopi Reservation and Rocky Ridge Boarding School on the Navajo Nation — also had students or staff report to school after March 16. Nearly 70 percent of public schools serving Native students were conducting digital learning, according to the survey.

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Report Elementary Online Learning System 127

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 75

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. Learn four important skills that will help you integrate edtech into your curriculum. Highlighted Recordings Yong Zhao from the Learning 2.0

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Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 122