The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2020
Leave this field empty if you're human: “People think it’s about boxes and wires and that’s just the beginning,” said Beth Holland, digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry association for tech directors across the country. But the differences based on income are striking.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
And while there’s a growing industry around serving adult learners in higher education, companies largely neglect to consider the needs of the elderly. I found out that it’s very hard for them to use smartphones and it’s really hard to find any apps that’s appealing to the senior generation. You can’t study or learn unless it’s fun.
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Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2020
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. Both companies give people from all walks of life the chance to break into the tech industry, without any cost to them.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
Today, 95 percent of teenagers have access to a smartphone, and the average teen is now spending more than 7 hours per day on their screens , including over 1.5 Broadband penetration in K-12 schools reached over 98 percent , while low-cost computing devices like Chromebooks have proliferated in classrooms. hours on social media.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
With the lowest internet access in the world in sub-Saharan Africa, average broadband penetration is at a mere 2 percent, with n early 90 percent of students without computers at home South Africa, the continent’s bright spot, is the strongest early adopter of digital education with 63 percent of the population online.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 28, 2019
But the takeaways for educators and the edtech industry are most obvious in the sections on homework. It found that students in lower-income area schools were less likely to be assigned homework requiring digital tools, possibly due to a lack of high-speed broadband or devices in students’ homes.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. That’s music to the ears of industry leaders who have funded and built many of these digital tools. When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise.
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