Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Many depend on accessing course resources and lessons seamlessly from online textbooks or other digital resources. or in disadvantaged countries abroad that lack robust broadband options depend on mobile devices to participate online. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Tracy Smith, Parkland’s assistant to the superintendent for operations, spoke with EdTech about the district’s strategies and best practices for improving digital equity and shared her hopes for bringing broadband to every home in the Lehigh Valley region. . Technology can make a difference , and in this case it’s a good fit.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2015

“What you find out very quickly as teachers is not just the power of using technology in the classroom, but the power to extend learning, to carry it beyond just the school day,” says Brian Nicol, communications coordinator and, until recently, a teacher at the Wisconsin school district.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

“Providing a more equitable future for students everywhere is a top priority at Kajeet and we are thrilled to once again offer a grant opportunity that will help schools and libraries provide critical resources.”. and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage.

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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. Mobile Beacon. Some studies have shown that enabling such households with mobile, rather than broadband, internet creates a more flexible solution, as these types of households tend to relocate more frequently.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We billion Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program that helps 96 percent of schools get more affordable broadband.

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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. Millions of these students fall into the Homework Gap because they do not have broadband access at home.

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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. Any Device Will Do Americans have lots of consumer technology tools to choose from, and they haven’t all made the same selections.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We simply didn’t have the human resources to do the same for the 10,000 families in our district. AllHere’s technology combines these evidence-based strategies with a chatbot that enables an extra layer of personalization and communication that we need more than ever during a time of crisis. Recommended Resources from AllHere.

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Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 17, 2023

Technology-enabled education has been on an upward trend for well over a decade. Technology, both the internet and the mobile devices it enables, offers almost unlimited opportunity. The global COVID-19 pandemic only accelerated the adoption by school districts across the entire K-12 spectrum. What is Digital Equity?

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

All state districts will have access to high-speed broadband connections. This new connectivity exceeds a national network infrastructure benchmark of 100 Mbps, which was set by the State Educational Technology Directors Association. So, I’m glad we were able to meet the need and do what is best for student learning.”.

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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. Fortunately, a number of organizations offer resources to help with this challenge. With nearly all schools in the U.S. Secure devices for every student.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Nevertheless, the survey found that while a vast majority of principals believe that effective use of ed tech is important to student success, 54 percent still say their biggest digital learning challenge is getting teachers to adapt their classroom practices to make better use of the new resources. Technology in Education: An Overview.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., by Terry Heick. Transparent. Asynchronous .

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 12, 2016

Much was discussed during the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week in Paris. The image presented here was ironic, appearing as it did on the door to the main venue of the conference, but as several pointed out, the device in the image is a reference to a bygone age when mobile phones were primitive. don't have internet capability).

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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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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.

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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. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We To her, it was “heartbreaking.”. The homework gap isn’t new.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2020

eSchool News Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. Stay tuned for eSchool News Guides on library media technology, online/blended learning, and more.

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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. The Task Force leveraged the influence and networks of its members to bring resources and expertise to bear. . This triage approach allowed for more efficient use of calling resources. . 3 | OUTREACH STRATEGY.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The program, NOVA’s first focused effort to create educational resources to teach science communication to teens, grew out of a pilot program during the 2018-2019 academic year in the Boston area that worked with nearly 30 students. The first episode focuses on misinformation about mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. About NOVA.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

This will create a new demand for online tutoring services and I anticipate and hope that more federal resources are allocated to school districts to offer this 1:1 tutoring to students. 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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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 24, 2019

Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) helps us by sharing what the organization sees as the next big trends. Her students use technology to interact with others around the world to solve real-world problems in their community an beyond. A useful resource is the COSN Digital Equity Tookit.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Any serious engagement of this demographic with educational technology tools must have a mobile-first strategy in place,” Roden says.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

The image below serves as a blueprint for how schools have successfully rolled out and used technology to support students, both in-school and out. Each section represents one of the major phases a school undergoes as it works to provide learners with ubiquitous access to technology and powerful learning opportunities. Ready to Commit.

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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. Learn more about their resources here ! A librarian can bring you back the right one.” Capstone loves librarians!

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Tom Murray

JUNE 8, 2016

Organize and map the core curriculum, resources, and assessments the district is currently utilizing. In a typical school structure, resource decisions are made in silos based on curriculum area, grade, or building level. Districts can often be seen purchasing vast amounts of technology based on little to no research or evidence.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2015

In a sneak peek of the results from the forthcoming CoSN third annual E-Rate & Broadband Survey, which will be available by mid-October, the vast majority of U.S. Step 4: Seek mobile-hot-spot programs. Nearly 5 percent of school districts report they're implementing a mobile-hot-spot-loaner program.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Most educators and policy makers understand that equity is key to ensuring technology narrows rather than widens achievement gaps. "Anytime, anywhere" learning has been core to the vision of education technology leaders since the Internet, laptops, and mobile devices entered the classroom. Think Outside the Box.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Tom Hering, Director of Information Technology at Great Falls Public Schools in Montana, was in a bind. “We We were starting to [exceed] our bandwidth capacity… With our goals as a district to move towards mobile technology and online curriculum, we needed to begin focusing on [increasing bandwidth].”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2016

CFISD is building a 100G network with the vision of providing students and staff ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ broadband access so they can easily interact and collaborate with peers and engage in distance learning initiatives. ”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Today, we’re seeing a growing number of new ed-tech solutions being adopted directly by teachers, prompting an opportunity to revisit who should be making decisions when it comes to which technologies are used in schools. Many products, digital resources and tools weren’t designed for teacher-level purchase and use.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

That was one frustrating situation Jean Tower recalls encountering when she started as director of technology at the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough , Massachusetts, about six years ago. What was the promise of technology that everyone saw in the beginning for education?” The problem: a slow internet connection.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

According to Davis, Fuller, Jackson, Pittman, and Sweet (2007) , the definition of digital equity is “equal access and opportunity to digital tools, resources, and services to support an increase in digital knowledge, awareness, and skills.” Innovative Approaches. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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