Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

kids live in a house with some form of a mobile device—and those smartphones and tablets are gobbling up a greater portion of kids' screen time than ever. In addition to that hour of TV, kids are spending about 48 minutes on a mobile device. In addition to that hour of TV, kids are spending about 48 minutes on a mobile device.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. In fact, the biggest question I get from teachers in my online classes and on my blog is: “How do I do it?” Access the required site through mobile devices.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. They offer practical guidance on everything from mapping the granular requirements of the “homework gap” among students and parents, to how to go about partnering with local communities and business. Mobile Beacon.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

When Americans see crisis we mobilize. We are thankful for those who broadcast the news and the broadband providers that have opened their networks, lifted data caps and fees, and promised not to discontinue service. We need to start thinking now about how to fix that if we want our networks to stay up and running.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. Here are three alternative ideas for how to ensure students can learn from home when necessary. Tapping Cell Signal Remote learning depends not only on tools, but also on signals.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

This shift to technology-mediated teaching and learning puts a spotlight on the homework gap -- the divide between students who have home broadband access and those who do not. Most households have mobile devices, but it’s hard to get work done on a phone. With nearly all schools in the U.S. Leverage educational TV.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

A growing number of teachers, meanwhile, are hungry for PD on how to integrate games in their classrooms. Are easy to find and easy to access on mobile devices (53 percent). Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach. CoSN Calls Broadband Access Outside School a ‘Civil Right’ for Students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

This is especially true for K-12 and higher education as schools, colleges, and universities have been forced to close in order to slow the spread of the virus and find alternative, but technologically accessible, ways to reach students–literally. Private LTE is a mobile broadband network deployed to serve a specific organization.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

During the pandemic, many districts have addressed this gap by handing out personal hotspot devices (similar to routers) or smartphones, or provided mobile Wi-Fi on school buses to kids lacking internet. An initial report , which is still being finalized, states that “lack of broadband access in Ector County is a crisis.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. Read part 1 , part 2 (about audio) , part 3 (about video) , and part 4 (about mobile tech in education). Gaps opened up by race, income, education and geography drive wedges between technologies and entire populations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos knew there were many kids like her, eager to keep up with school but lacking the technology to do so. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We To her, it was “heartbreaking.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How can we prepare a generation of students to adapt and evolve, learn (and un-learn), in an era where technological advances are transforming the world of work, traditional educational pathways are under fire—and the half-life of skills hovers around five years ? Recall that the first iPhones weren’t released until 2007.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students. As a result, Ms.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2017

As the world undergoes a digital transformation—with connectivity and access to computers and mobile devices playing an increasingly prominent role in everyone’s lives—elementary schools know they need to incorporate technology in the educational process to prepare their students for future success. billion in 2017.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The series aims to educate young people about the dangers of misinformation, reporting not only how to identify it but also how to debunk misinformation it’s encountered online. As a leader in educational multimedia for the classroom, WGBH supplies content to PBS LearningMedia, a national broadband service for teachers and students.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

When we started thinking about how to support schools working to close the Digital Learning Gap , we knew we wanted school leaders to feel just as confident and prepared as athletes ready for a race. An effective technology integration plan requires buy-in and participation from everyone. Ready to Commit. Getting to yes.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 9, 2020

Many students lack internet and technology access at home. In an episode of our Distance Learning with Common Sense video series , Arcelia Gonzalez, regional family engagement liaison at Oakland Unified School District in California, offers helpful guidance on how to identify communication gaps and reach students with limited tech access.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The survey results demonstrated the urgency of eliminating broadband accessibility as a barrier to remote learning. Implementing technology tools. An initial needs assessment by CCSD found that 70,000 respondents did not have a device, 18,000 did not have Internet access, and 120,000 did not respond at all.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For technology to supplement learning and not act as an impediment, the need for the right technological ecosystem cannot be negated. Many regions are underfunded with a mix of old and new technology. How to Create Digital Textbooks in 5 Easy Steps. There is No One-Size-Fits-All Approach. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. We are hopeful that, when the pandemic lifts, we can welcome a return to hands-on, collaborative, creative technology education in 2021.

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Buncee

MARCH 29, 2022

The purpose is to highlight libraries and how important it is for people to continue to build their literacy skills especially when it comes to changing technologies and access to more information than ever before. But more importantly, librarians teach students how to discover and discern credible information for themselves.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. About the Presenters. Arati has an M.Ed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. But even that wasn’t enough to completely close the divide, says Doug Casey, the executive director at the Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology, who heads the home broadband part of the program. In Norwalk, Conn.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Inequity looms large.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” We have managed to troubleshoot the mobilization of meal programs, lack of technology equipment, online teacher training, and a whole host of issues that come with a change of this magnitude. Some of them have siblings that will be sharing that technology. Three days!

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

This piece was co-authored by Lisa Guernsey , director of the Early Education Initiative and the Learning Technologies Project in the Education Policy Program at New America and Michael H. These actions, while necessary, are not enough to address a critical and related problem: Will today's young children ever learn how to read?

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2016

This piece was co-authored by Lisa Guernsey , director of the Early Education Initiative and the Learning Technologies Project in the Education Policy Program at New America and Michael H. These actions, while necessary, are not enough to address a critical and related problem: Will today's young children ever learn how to read?

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Broadband Digital Citizenship Industry Libraries 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2012

The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. Mobile telephones were a lot larger than they are today, and quite expensive to buy and use. In 1996 Richard E.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR was established in order to address the critical need for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure and training at school level in Ghana. Get ideas on how to participate! More information.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2015

Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) is launching an Advanced Placement (AP) Blended Learning program, and wireless provider Kajeet will provide students with mobile hotspots to support the district’s efforts.

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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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Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

Developed by the University of New Mexico-Taos Education and Career Center and local business partners, Taos HIVE was designed to solve challenges unique to rural communities, such as geographic isolation, education deserts , and lack of access to broadband and other services. Collaborating Organizations. Tell the whole story, over time.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Failure of Education Technology HACK EDUCATION NEWS ROUNDUP And here, in full, is the Hack Education weekly roundup, also available directly at Hack Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Before we start handing out devices, we want to make sure that all of students are on an even playing field; our board was very intent on this,” said Leeann Dooley, K-12 assistant principal and technology coordinator at the district. Giving students devices isn’t a good move if they can’t use them when they’re not at school.”.

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