Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

This category covers the services necessary to support broadband connectivity in schools and libraries, including data links that connect multiple points, services used to connect eligible locations to the internet, and services that provide basic conduit access to the internet. USAC eligible services FAQ page.

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Broadband Internet Safety 52

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Under these conditions, it is especially difficult to push forward critical information skills and to engage in the kind of collaborations that enable librarians to integrate these skills. He understands that digital equity doesn’t simply mean access to broadband or computers. It also means access to school librarians.

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Advocacy Libraries Broadband System 81

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

We’ll also see educators needing to address the mental health crisis by prioritizing individualized and trauma-informed instruction.” Leaders will be looking for new ways to streamline observation to ensure teachers feel supported, connected with colleagues, and aligned on how to have the most impact with students.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Walking into a Merritt Elementary School classroom today, you’ll find students using iPads to figure out math problems and submit their answers, while teachers grade those answers and provide feedback and follow-up support in real-time.

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Digital Learning Guidelines E-rate Edcamps 92

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 106

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As an educator, Jared Cotton has worn nearly as many hats as Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew Cubbins—elementary math and science teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of assessment and accountability, assistant superintendent, superintendent. It’s also about readying students for college, careers, and engaged citizenship.

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Broadband Technology Assessment iPad 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. Many broadband providers are also adding capacity, lifting caps on data and offering extended free trial periods. on March 18, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

More information and login details at YouMatter.me. AIR was established in order to address the critical need for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and training at school level in Ghana. More information at [link]. Get ideas on how to participate! Please fill out a Partner Application today.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 53

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2024

It plans to evaluate students on their ability to use AI tools and to recognize AI-generated information. Many schools still use paper products and struggle with spotty broadband and limited digital tools, she said: The digital divide is “very much part of this conversation.” There’s also the issue of bias embedded in many AI tools.

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Assessment Digital Divide Pearson Broadband 119

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School.

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Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 143

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy. For more information on the initiative, visit Learnwithportals.com.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Financial literacy is one of several side lessons of the full-time internships for his students, along with learning to navigate lobby security without state-issued identification and how to behave and dress at the office.

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Report Study Software Meeting 64

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Tech Enablers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 80

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. Participants are currently learning how to evaluate software privacy policies and make an informed decision about whether it’s right for their school.

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Technology Chromebook Broadband EdTech 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Some districts have opened buildings while keeping Covid cases far lower than national averages.

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Libraries Data Broadband Report 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

Municipalities currently exploring how to commit these federal dollars must do so with a multidimensional approach in mind. Related: OPINION: How targeted federal action could finally chip away at the broadband racism faced by Black students.

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Digital Divide Broadband Policies System 93

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.

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Broadband Chromebook Accessibility Digital Divide 101

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools. That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. It extends to the skills needed to improve comprehension.

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EdTech Learning Industry Data 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2021

Department of Education last month said that states will have flexibility on how to apply results. objected in a March 25 letter that the requirements for information on chronic absenteeism and access technologies as conditions are “not permitted under ESEA as amended by ESSA. This is as true in education as it is in other sectors.

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Broadband Assessment Report System 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But there is one essential that has always been scarce in this part of the country and that she couldn’t stock up on: Broadband access. Perry’s home isn’t wired for broadband access. Only 13 percent of New Mexico’s population has access to a low-price internet service plan, according to Broadband Now, a research group.

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Broadband Accessibility Report Company 129

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

If I were a teacher, would I know how to shift to teaching online?”. 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. The initial confusion was a harbinger of what was to come.

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Report Elementary Online Learning System 127

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Newsletter Sponsors Click for more information Learning Revolution Events More information at [link]. 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. More information at [link].

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Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

In January, Rosa Bermudez brought home a colorful worksheet from Stansbury Elementary School, meant to guide her “power plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology. In January, Rosa Bermudez filled out her “Power Plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology, one of her early assignments from Stansbury Elementary School.

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Policies Elementary Report System 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

I may need to know how to use this at some point, and I don’t want to go to college or to a job totally clueless.”. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms. One girl is reading Jack and the Cornstalk.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” So no surprise, Techcrunch informs us that “ Scrumpt now offers fresh, healthy lunches for kids.”

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

According to Edsurge , changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act will soon be another “ win for ed-tech vendors.” This fall, the EducationSuperHighway released a price comparison tool so that districts could see neighbors’ broadband costs and ideally leverage that information to get a better deal.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “The National Women’s Law Center filed suit Monday against the Education Department in an effort to force the release of information about federal enforcement of Title IX , a law that governs how schools handle campus sexual harassment and assault.” .” Education in the Courts.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

These 11 Cases Show How.” ” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. “ Coding Bootcamps Won’t Save Us All,” Edsurge informs us.

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Khan Academy Elsevier Education MOOC 46