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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. If some kids can go home and learn, discover and backfill information, while other kids’ learning stops at school, that’s a huge problem.”. They’re building their own countywide broadband network.

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How Can We Close the Digital Learning Gap This School Year?

Digital Promise

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. But what does that look like? I am a father of four. I often say that I am living the entire education continuum. Last year, our children had amazing teachers who truly went the extra mile.

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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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New research finds widening educational inequity in year of COVID

eSchool News

American Indian and Alaskan Native, Black, and Latino and/or students in high poverty schools) were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades that NWEA studied. “As Achievement was lower for all student groups in 2020-21; historically underserved students (e.g.,

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet.

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"Libraries as Community Anchors" - a Library 2.0 Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.

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Schedule for Thursday's "Libraries as Community Anchors" Mini-Conference (Library 2.0) - Register Now

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This event is being organized in partnership with Don Means, Director of the GIGABIT LIBRARIES NETWORK , and Kristen Radsliff Rebmann, Professor in the School of Information at San José State University. conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide.