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How to Select a Complete Digital Education Solution Provider

ViewSonic Education

Aim to keep students engaged. For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. Aim to Keep Students Engaged. Keeping students engaged is one of the most important aspects of teaching. Encourage collaboration.

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98 Percent of U.S. Public School Districts Connected to High-Speed Broadband, But 2.3 Million Students Still Left Behind

Education Superhighway

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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Digital Equity & Ensuring All Students Succeed

Lightspeed Systems

Defined by the National Education Association , digital equity ensures all school-aged children have the basic resources — broadband internet and computer access — to meaningfully participate in remote learning from home. The difficulty, of course, is realizing a digital equity.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

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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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

. “The explosion in teacher interest and usage of videos and game-based learning could be a harbinger of a new awakening for digital learning” said Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, in a statement. Are engaging and keeps their attention (48 percent). Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach.

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OPINION: Five ways to achieve equity in remote learning

The Hechinger Report

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. Understanding how students engage with technology, and how that correlates with student achievement, is an important step toward closing achievement gaps.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

edWeb.net

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.