Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As campuses locked their gates out of fear of infection, most American college students rushed to their laptops to study from home. While smartphones are not as widely available, the devices are beginning to proliferate in several nations, including 34 percent in South Africa. Elsewhere, not everyone was as fortunate.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. 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. on April 10, 2020.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband. The good news: Most American homes with school-age children do have broadband access -– about 82.5

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Use of both tablets and smartphones (at home, school or elsewhere) has risen across all grade levels. Smartphone use increased only 9 percent during the same period (from 44 percent to 53 percent). High school students and college students prefer laptops, notebooks and Chromebooks,” said Liane Wardlow, Ph.D.,

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Students participating in the program will receive either a free smartphone, tablet, laptop, or “hotspot” device that offers them access to the web. Students who get a smartphone can also use it as a hotspot, and for unlimited calls and texts in the United States, while on a Sprint network.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2017

plans to give away 1 million smartphones and other connected devices and free wireless service to help high school students who don’t have internet access at home. Devices available through the project are smartphones, tablets, laptops and hotspots. Sprint Corp.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Technology like tablets PCs, apps, and access to broadband internet are lubricating the shift to mobile learning, but a truly immersive mobile learning environment goes beyond the tools for learning to the lives and communities valued by each individual learner. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e.,

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

Just over half of the nation’s public school children are from families considered low-income, and an estimated 12 million lack broadband Internet access at home. Families are also contacting her throughout the day on their smartphones using ClassDojo, a program she was already using to keep in touch. so parents can check in.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

don’t have a broadband connection and don’t own a laptop or computer. This means some of your students may only be connecting to your lessons through smartphones and data plans. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide. Don’t forget that around 4 in 10 lower-income households in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. So Apple may wind up owning teen allegiance to wearable digital accessories, even as it loses hands-on loyalty in traditional laptops and tablets.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

percent of households in Oakland don’t have a desktop or laptop at home, and 18.9 percent of households lack a desktop or laptop, and just 10.3 percent of households lack a desktop or laptop, and just 10.3 Everything is online now,” Bey said. Such efforts are critical, as an estimated 22.8 Census Bureau. (In

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Canvassers like Bey use that opportunity to invite parents to be learn about and apply to their fellowship program, a ten-session course that provides $200 vouchers for refurbished laptops (through its partnership with the nonprofit Tech Exchange), teaches parents digital literacy and shows them how to access and understand school data.

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MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

Canvassers like Bey use that opportunity to invite parents to be learn about and apply to their fellowship program, a ten-session course that provides $200 vouchers for refurbished laptops (through its partnership with the nonprofit Tech Exchange), teaches parents digital literacy and shows them how to access and understand school data.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Many districts have scrambled to distribute their classroom laptops to families, to buy portable hot spots, and call on private and corporate donations. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. That’s so even though her mother had come to school to pick up a laptop and hot spot.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection. A separate Pew Research Center survey found that 17 percent of adults access the internet exclusively through smartphones. Most of those are in households that make less than $50,000 a year, and many live in rural areas. the organization’s executive director.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With no computer at home, inconsistent electricity and a smartphone that she shares with her family, some days, it’s a fight to use the phone to check in on assignments. Since the pandemic, her school has been more into technology and computers, which is fine for her at school , but what does that mean for her when school is out?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

From the FCC : “Fact Sheet on Broadband Consumer Privacy Proposal.” million laptops to all public primary schools. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Smartphone Explodes in Rowan College Classroom.” It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. Think of broadband speeds where large amounts of data can allow students to collaborate digitally from their schools or homes. Across the board, we saw more laptops in the hands of young people than ever before.

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