eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. The report highlights the pivotal role state leaders and policymakers play in helping districts and schools implement high-speed broadband and wi-fi in schools. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As digital learning transforms education across the country, how can board members ensure that their policies and budget decisions support digital learning opportunities and the robust infrastructure needed to support it? Learn more. Can teachers easily integrate digital learning initiatives?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. But as the usage and positive perception of digital learning tools grow in U.S.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Be sure to consider the alignment of your strategy and expectations to the broadband internet infrastructure needed to support it. This post summarizes my current thoughts on the issue in the hope that it may be useful to others in – or who work with – State Departments of Education.

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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. It’s an ongoing process we intend to continue in the fall — regardless of where learning takes place. This was a critical first step.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2016

Statewide ed-tech inventories are helping state leaders assess their digital learning needs. They commissioned a school technology inventory that was completed by Connected Nation , a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring affordable broadband to all Americans. It was the 100-percent response rate from the survey.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

They inform my day-to-day work as well as the important learnings I’ll take forward for years to come. Teachers are the unwavering center of schooling and we should continue to learn from them every day. I talked about mastery learning a lot back then. I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 24, 2017

It is our core belief that w ith access to more information and more data on broadband speeds and pricing, school district leaders are empowered to find new service options, make informed broadband choices, and get more bandwidth for their budgets. Our approach to achieving data accuracy: Data Col lection.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Educators stress the importance of state leadership, transparency for purchasing digital instructional materials. A new report urges care when purchasing digital instructional materials, and notes that factors such as interoperability, accessibility, and device access should be considered during the process.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 13, 2019

Every year, our organization aims to build a complete picture of every school district’s Internet speed and pricing information so that we can update our free tools and resources, which in turn support school leaders as they upgrade their networks. Support policy analysis and change. Create new funding sources.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

The San Francisco-based nonprofit’s most recent report, 2016 State of the States , is one part of that process. million more students than in last year’s report, and a staggering 30.9 E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

As school leaders work to implement digital learning practices, they must commit to navigating roadblocks, problem solving, and planning for sustainable, systemic transformation. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2016

Through Compare & Connect K-12, school district technology directors and superintendents can easily view broadband pricing and bandwidth information for school districts across the country. From there, a user simply types in the name of a school district to get started.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 24, 2017

It is our core belief that with transparency in broadband speeds and pricing, school districts are empowered to grow their technology programs. More schools upgrading their Internet networks across America means more students will be connected to digital learning opportunities – which is our mission here at EducationSuperHighway.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

To provide a safe and effective learning environment, educators will reimagine schools to improve accessibility and inclusivity. We’ll also see educators needing to address the mental health crisis by prioritizing individualized and trauma-informed instruction.” Reporting dashboards should become more student-focused.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said.

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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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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

Since the initiative launched, EducationSuperHighway and our state partners have focused our efforts on ensuring that every student in Massachusetts gets the bandwidth necessary to support digital learning in the classroom. Last year, EducationSuperHighway delivered a comprehensive report on school connectivity across Massachusetts.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband. Some of the best information available is from the Pew Research Center. How Big Is the Problem?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

The report provides district and school leaders with insights into what works to improve student outcomes,” said Teela Watson, Director of Digital Learning at Education Service Center Region 11 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. What we learned from Katrina is that our students experienced a bunch of separation, of loss,” he said. “It

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

While access to technology may be nearly universal today, using those same technologies for learning isn't always equitable. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. Ordonez is able to organize information and present students with a brief introduction on topics ranging from architecture to ancient history. Ordonez presented and review information at their own pace. Safari Books.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on April 10, 2020.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

“There are three key barriers to broadband adoption: affordability, access to hardware and understanding the relevancy to one’s education and economic prospects,” said Zach Leverenz, founder and CEO of EveryoneOn. For more information about the devices, please visit www.everyoneon.org.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 18, 2019

While access to technology may be nearly universal today, using those same technologies for learning isn't always equitable. A number of key findings in Common Sense's recently released research report, The Common Sense Census: Inside the 21st-Century Classroom , speak to this disconnect.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

That’s a finding that leaders at the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) took to heart in designing the Mississippi Connects program to provide and support the use of 1:1 computing devices for teaching and learning to students and teachers in districts throughout the state. There are early signs of progress.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future. YouTube channel.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

As a result, administrators proactively identify students with poor or no internet access at scale, saving considerable time troubleshooting and maximizing the impact of digital learning. For more information on Lightspeed Digital Insight and the Digital Equity module, please visit [link].

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

After seven years of coordinated efforts to improve internet access in schools, thereby laying the foundation for digital learning to take root and expand in U.S. In 2017, EducationSuperHighway’s annual “State of the States” report declared 94 percent of U.S. So seven years ago, knowing little about school broadband, he dove in.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

states experiencing teacher shortages and nearly half of teachers reporting burnout, this technology can help teachers give students more personalized time and attention while lightening their workload. Other technology like Kinderpedia streamlines teacher work and strengthens the three-way connection between teachers, students and parents.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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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. Teachers themselves report a lack of confidence using technology tools in the classroom. With 99 percent of U.S. On its face, that sounds like a good thing.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Studies show that low-income and minority students are less likely to use the Internet or own a computer.

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