Digital Promise
MAY 28, 2021
When schools were forced to quickly shift to distance learning in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) team immediately sprung into action to provide professional learning and support to educators within the network—which grew to 264 middle and high schools across the country by late 2020.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Each of the satellites will offer more than one terabyte per second of total network output, a thousand times the capacity of the company's first generation satellites, which the company says will allow educators and students across the country to connect “significantly” better.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 22, 2023
Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information.
Edsurge
JANUARY 27, 2021
In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 28, 2021
But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digital divide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. We’re publishing a series about how pandemic-era practices are continuing to shape higher education. Check out related article, “ The Pandemic Pushed Colleges to Record Lectures.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 25, 2021
There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I Prepping for the new school year, Narumi Wigandt, an educational technician, unpacks chargers and cords for the new Macbooks that line the shelves next to her, on Aug. Read the series.
EdTech Magazine
MAY 29, 2018
Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide. Allen isn’t a technologist by trade or hobby, but he believes students must have access to modern tools for learning because education is essential to keeping American kids competitive. ricky.ribeiro. Tue, 05/29/2018 - 23:37.
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