techlearning

MARCH 12, 2018

The results show that school leaders place a high priority on cyber security and broadband / network capacity. Top findings from the report: Cyber security and broadband / network capacity are the top priorities for IT leaders. Integrating technology into the classroom continues to be the most understaffed IT function in schools.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We had the knowledge, skills, and teacher training. This forced pivot to fully remote learning and the necessary flexibility to go from in-person to at-home to a hybrid model has shown us that all teachers need to have the training to teach in all three learning environments. We were ahead of the game. That was a huge advantage.

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Broadband Learning Blended Learning Training 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Presented to the legislature in May 2020, the plan aimed to make education more equitable by closing gaps in device ownership and broadband coverage across the state. “We Plans are also underway for extending broadband to Mississippi’s rural communities, digitizing a landscape that has long been known as a digital desert.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2020

She provides staff development and training on immersive technology as an edtech consultant. THURSDAY'S SHOW (August 27th) : 4:00 PM - REINVENTING.SCHOOL - EPISODE 18: BROADBAND INEQUALITY with host Howard Blumenthal. She began her career as a math teacher and later moved into Instructional Technology. By our count, about 2 in 3 U.S.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We also work in partnership with the state’s broadband office, Broadband Ohio. Our care staff are trained to provide support through the application process and troubleshoot when needed. They named the United Way of Greater Cincinnati as the backbone organization for the Southwest Ohio Regional Digital Inclusion Alliance.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Without planning, strategy, educator training and support , among other things, the marriage of education and technology won’t work. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race.

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Broadband Future Ready Training EdTech 209

Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Unless you’ve been living on the moon for the last decade you will also know that mobile is booming: the statistics bare this out with a 20% year-on-year increase in the uptake of mobile broadband (data) subscriptions. Income vs. Access: The Digital Divide in the US. Source: LEE RAINIE ).

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Digital Divide Broadband Mobility BYOD 150

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2020, after the onset of the pandemic, the program was created to provide funding to schools and libraries to purchase eligible equipment and services for students and teachers who lack connected devices, including laptops, tablets, or even broadband access. Planning is essential to being able to continue providing reliable technology.

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Technology Software Training Broadband 117

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

The year before a rollout, we’d begin training the teachers and upgrading any necessary infrastructure at the school level. If we do not have enough broadband to facilitate seamless learning experiences, our students will suffer. In August 2023, I transitioned from teaching and learning to IT.

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Broadband Guidelines Laptops Accessibility 119

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2018

Thankfully, technologies such as virtual reality and collaboration software can assist with the training and recruiting of better teachers. For student-teachers, it can be a vital training ground. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! VR Preps Teachers for the Classroom.

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Classroom Broadband EdTech Blended Learning 228

Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ACP Materials at Baltimore County Public Library Scaling Up To increase reach, Alex has also taken the initiative to train additional library partners on ACP outreach and create an “event kit” with all the necessities a branch would need to enact a successful awareness event.

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Libraries Broadband Chromebook Mobility 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

On October 12, EducationSuperHighway released its second No Home Left Offline report, which highlights the barriers that continue to stand in the way of internet access for millions of Americans and lays out what states need to do to help connect families to broadband. In total, 51.6

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Accessibility 77

Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

With the right tools and training, adopting edtech in the classroom can have far-reaching benefits. For example, there is no point spending thousands of dollars on new equipment if you don’t have the required WiFi connectivity, infrastructure or broadband speed for it. Train the teachers. Train them further.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Without planning, strategy, educator training and support , among other things, the marriage of education and technology won’t work. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race.

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Broadband Future Ready Training EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Without planning, strategy, educator training and support , among other things, the marriage of education and technology won’t work. . There’s a growing understanding that disparities in home broadband internet access put students at a disadvantage — typically those who already face obstacles because of low family income or race.

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Broadband Future Ready Training EdTech 150

Education Superhighway

MARCH 30, 2022

Last year, Congress created the Affordable Connectivity Program, a new long-term, $14 billion programs, to replace the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program (EBB) in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Current ACP rules do not allow or support this broadband deployment strategy. 2 ACP Non-profit remote enrollment support.

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Broadband Digital Divide Training Strategy 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. While most schools in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. While 92 percent of adults from households earning $75,000 or more per year say they have broadband internet at home, just 56 percent of adults from households earning below $30,000 say the same.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since our nation’s beginning, the farm has been a foundation of American society , but too often rural communities do not have broadband access or don’t have access to the digital skills needed on today’s modern farms,” Snapp wrote in a blog post. “As Google Offers Digital Skills Workshops and Coaches.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Digital equity, as defined by ISTE , involves “making sure students have equal access to technology like devices, software, and the internet, and that they have trained educators to help them navigate those tools.”. are in place. Here’s how our district overcame these hurdles, and here are some tips for districts facing similar challenges.

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Broadband Digital Citizenship Industry Training 84

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

America’s community colleges can train the talent needed to satisfy current labor shortages while addressing income inequality in a meaningful way. This means help with the nontuition costs of college: books, laptops, housing, childcare, transportation, broadband and more.

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Broadband Training Laptops Report 102

Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Many school leaders (57 percent) also say that a lack of teacher training is the biggest barrier to expanding their ed tech offerings. CoSN Calls Broadband Access Outside School a ‘Civil Right’ for Students. A growing number of teachers, meanwhile, are hungry for PD on how to integrate games in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

With increased federal support to fund technologies in the classroom, expand broadband access, and put devices in the hands of more students, education technology continues to play an important role in the lives of educators and students. Holding learning technologies accountable.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

When the transition happened in March, administrators in our region of Washington state had roughly two weeks to evaluate, purchase and train teachers to use a variety of ed-tech products — from learning management systems and video-conferencing tools to complex, interactive software. And that two weeks was more time than many districts had.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Outcomes 143

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. Quite often, software options have a lot more capabilities than you might be aware of, so it’s important to spend a little bit of time training yourself and getting to grips with all the features and functions.

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How To Software Education EdTech 375

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s according to the sixth annual broadband and infrastructure report released by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a nonprofit made up of K-12 school technology leaders. It may also include cybersecurity insurance, real-time monitoring, or training for IT staff, among other services.

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E-rate Broadband Survey Data 123

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

EducationSuperHighway and our partners across the broadband space have been busy advocating for ACP renewal, and we are starting to see positive progress. Right now, the ACP is projected to run out of funds in early 2024. The good news is that the ACP has broad bipartisan support, including in Congress. We can only do this with your support.

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Advocacy Social Media Broadband Tools 52

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2022

But with few trained counselors , nurses , or other professionals, and with so many other demands on educators’ time and energy , it’s hard for many schools and districts to help address students’ mental and physical health at scale. These devices and services are critical for students accessing telehealth services.

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Outcomes Exercises Broadband Study 124

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The survey results demonstrated the urgency of eliminating broadband accessibility as a barrier to remote learning. They created materials for and trained and managed call center agents. Training and preparation was a critical first step to the call center’s success. On average, calls lasted fifteen to twenty minutes.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 4, 2021

This framework includes approximately $65 billion in broadband funding but it remains unclear how those funds will be disseminated—to states directly, via a federal government grant process—and how they will be spent. If any of the $7.17

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Policies Broadband Libraries Strategy 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2018

After conducting a survey in 2015, district leaders found that while a surprising number of students have access to broadband, the biggest obstacle to technological access rural students face is the lack of devices. How could they get the technology and training into the right hands with their schools spread over such a wide area?

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Technology Blended Learning Chromebook Education 149

Education Superhighway

JULY 8, 2019

As the State E-rate Director, Milan Eaton has been working on the Arizona Broadband for Education Initiative since it began in 2016. He’s been a tireless advocate for schools across the state, doing everything he can to make sure school districts have affordable, high-quality broadband so that students can use digital learning technologies.

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E-rate Accessibility Broadband Examples 61

Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Though for many school districts, slow download speeds in classrooms serve as the impetus for a network upgrade, there are many reasons district leaders strive to revamp their broadband infrastructure. The broadband itself was sufficient for the number of devices they had now, but what if they wanted to use more devices?

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Broadband Blended Learning Secondary Elementary 60

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

We secured 450 new devices, I personally configured them and trained teachers and staff how to use them. I researched and found that some cable service providers offer basic broadband for free in housing authority buildings and that the Queens public library lets people check out internet access like a book.

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Broadband Libraries Accessibility Training 157

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

And some corporations have designed higher education and workforce training micro-courses intended for smartphones. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop. But cell service is pretty reliable in most places.

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Laptops Tablets Smartphone Mobility 202

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

According to a 2021 report from the think tank New America, 1 in 8 children from low-income families don’t have a computer at home, while 1 in 7 lack access to broadband internet. It also offers training on site at public housing complexes. Oakland launched OAK Wi-Fi, a broadband program, in late 2020 using $7.7

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 115