The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Elsewhere, teachers hold daily virtual office hours to check on the academic and emotional well-being of students they can no longer meet face to face. 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. The Richmond (Va.)

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” 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. And we’ve got WritingCity. “I’ve spoken to his mom. .” so parents can check in.

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

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. As such, as an educator, you need to consider how you can adjust your communication and teaching tools to meet the needs of all of your students.

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Strategy Tools Digital Divide Exercises 368

Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

When you’re a kid whose main point of access to the net is your mom’s smartphone, and your only broadband is at your school or library, it’s tough to make it through a series of Kahn Academy videos or a Udacity course on your own to become an awesome coder. Promotional video created by 10-year-old Sophia Serrato.

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Khan Academy Digital Badges Learning Libraries 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

We have the luxury of becoming choosier, and harsher on ourselves, as progress is made, i.e., let’s first make sure there are free, quality schools everywhere, and that children can all read and write, and then at some point down the line we can concern ourselves with iPads vs Androids, or the broadband access in our poorest communities.

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Education Broadband Industry Accessibility 40

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. Accessible from any computer, tablet or smartphone, ClassLink is ideal for 1to1 and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Dr. Wright serves on the CoSN Superintendent Advisory Panel.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 77

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Meet Learners Where They Operate. Pew research suggests just 24 percent of US adults with less than a high-school diploma have home broadband access, while further Pew research indicates 95 percent of U.S. Tasks such as using a smartphone to find the answer to a simple question—say, “What famous person was born today?”—provide

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Software Smartphone Mobility Robotics 238

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. Zuberi recounted. “I I have been misled. Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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Data Laptops Meeting Report 110

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. Now, they are employing creative methods, such as expanding the reach of the school’s broadband so students can do work from the parking lot or in the surrounding area, having off-duty patrol cars become hotspots across the district.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Mosi Zuberi stands in the hallway of the DeFremery Recreation Center after an Oakland REACH meeting. He described that January 2017 meeting as “emasculating,” saying that a teacher seemed to ignore him as she told Kaja he would fail her course and offered no options to change the situation. “I Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 101

MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

During virtual learning, Tovar taught his students how to enable closed captioning on Google Meet, as well as how to translate those captions into a student’s primary language, with Google Meet providing instantaneous translation in more than 100 languages. . Translate closed captions in a Google Meet! CAellchat #ELLchat.

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Tools eBook Digital Divide Broadband 43

MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. Everything is online now,” Bey said. Such efforts are critical, as an estimated 22.8

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Data Laptops Report Accessibility 43

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. ” Another of her students has a single mother who works cleaning hotel rooms; the girl goes along and often joins the class from her mother’s smartphone. million students are still missing devices — about 5.5%. Then there’s infrastructure.

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Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

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. That can make it tough to move to a digital workflow even when classes are meeting as scheduled.

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 206

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital equity thinks of access beyond mainstream solutions and meets learners and their communities where they are, providing supports and solutions that complement their current realities. Meet Maria. She’s fourteen. Her phone alarm wakes her up with the tune of her favorite song from Olivia Rodrigo. How do people live without it?!

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Accessibility 162

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 87

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. Access to interactive experiences, 3D drawings, site visits, etc.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 120

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” Inside Higher Ed reports that there’s “confusion over distance education rules”: “Colleges seek guidance about looming federal requirement for online colleges to tell students whether academic programs meet licensing requirements in their home states.”

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