Edsurge
MARCH 6, 2023
When classrooms and conference rooms abruptly moved online three years ago, we all experienced moments of technical frustration. How else does Qualcomm address the digital divide among students? Some of the other companies have tried to build a database of noises that they will analyze and block, which is more machine learning.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2020
In an online press conference May 27, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said that while the state has worked with companies and foundations to distribute more than a 100,000 hotspots and 21,000 computers, “there’s a gap in supply.” On the other side of the country, an estimated 1.2
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 15, 2018
on Thursday, at the Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition conference. Travis Litman, the chief of staff and senior legal advisor for Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC commissioner who coined the term “homework gap,” emphasized the growing urgency of addressing the digital divide.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 27, 2020
Nearly half of low-income districts distributed paper packets of worksheets to families while more than three-fourths of wealthier school districts distributed everything digitally. This digital divide had enormous consequences for what instruction meant. The average of 3.87
Marketplace K-12
JUNE 27, 2016
Leaders of the International Society for Technology in Education are launching the organization’s first-ever effort to raise revenue through licensing fees tied to companies’ use of the organization’s digital standards, the group’s chief executive officer said Sunday.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Edtech gatherings that attract more than 1,000 attendees, such as LearnLaunch’s Across Boundaries Conference last week in Boston, are usually echo chambers of hubbub and hoopla about technology’s potential to transform education. Throughout the conference sessions, there were no shortages of ideas on how to address those issues.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 12, 2017
Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Eventually, however, they found companies willing to do business with them, including Huawei in China and Florida-based Airspan Networks.
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