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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

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Closing the homework gap so ‘no child is left offline’

The Hechinger Report

What is alarming for advocates and policy-makers, is that even for families that do have broadband internet access at home, the survey found that most are “ under-connected ,” or lacking devices or service that are sufficient and reliable enough for remote learning. An additional $7.17

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Hotspots no silver bullet for rural remote learning

The Hechinger Report

Personal hotspots, which allow students to connect a laptop or tablet with a cellular data connection, have been the most popular solution because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. We have to do something about that, especially now that so many of our students are learning remotely,” Muri said.

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4 In 10 U.S. Teens Say They Haven’t Done Online Learning Since Schools Closed

MindShift

The poll of 849 teenagers , by Common Sense Media, conducted with SurveyMonkey, found that as schools across the country transition to some form of online learning, 41% of teenagers overall, including 47% of public school students, say they haven’t attended a single online or virtual class. But the need is large.

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

The Hechinger Report

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

Eduverse.com is a revolutionary online learning environment providing a safe and secure ‘metaverse’ for K-12 schools. Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere. ClassVR / Avanti’s World ensured that educators know that everyone can come to Eduverse.com.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. Steve Kossakoski, CEO, Virtual Learning Academy in New Hampshire. Coronavirus gave many just days.