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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

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The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. That Broadband Gap Bar? schools had high-speed broadband connections. A different nonprofit, Connected Nation, has picked up EducationSuperHighway’s broadband baton. Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. All in this Edtech Reports Recap.

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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Kajeet ’s ConnectEdNow campaign , announced in June, aims to make broadband access more affordable by providing students with portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices, a $200 mobile device subsidy and discounted data plans from Verizon , T-Mobile and other LTE providers. Broadband access still is limited in some rural areas.

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Five action steps to shrink the digital divide

eSchool News

For many focus group participants, ISPs or the federal government are not likely to be trusted. For many households that do not subscribe to home internet service, the top reasons are the ability to go online someplace else or that a smartphone provides all the internet access they need.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today. According to the ECAR 2016 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 96% of undergraduate students now own a smartphone.

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Low Tech? No Problem. Here are 3 Alternative Ways to Help Distance Learning Happen.

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According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 96 percent of adults own a cell phone and 81 percent own a smartphone. And some corporations have designed higher education and workforce training micro-courses intended for smartphones. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S.

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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

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For instance if you only have one laptop with broadband access that requires a teacher sign-in, then look at designing project-based learning modules with teams of students where online research is simply one component of a larger project. The problem then is data and home access.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

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She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. She attends a highly resourced school with computer science courses, well-trained teachers and one computing device per student.

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