Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. As you consider your funding plan, think of bandwidth as the amount of data that can be delivered to each student. School Network Structure.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. The program offers a wealth of school internet data which EducationSuperHighway used for its first State of the States report , based on 6,500 reporting districts, in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020. “We

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. And in order to provide K-12 students with the correct and latest data, the etextbooks need to be updated as and when required.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

And to not only seamlessly administer online tests but also enable digital learning in the classroom, schools need robust broadband. According to our data, however, nearly 12% of U.S. Soon, Darby will be in a position to fully enable digitally rich classrooms for their students.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 19, 2019

Utilizing the combined power of several anchor institutions, the Nevada Connect Kids Initiative has been instrumental in upgrading K-12 schools so that students can take advantage of digital learning in the classroom. Through the federal funding mechanism called E-rate we are closing the connectivity gap.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / Then, Lopez got more programing for the tablets from American Prison Data Systems, a for-profit company that charges facilities , not inmates or their families, for the tools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Partnering with school districts across the country, the program offers free high-speed data and free mobile hotspots–and access to at-cost laptops and tablets. Promethean showcased its new ActivPanel 9 with ActivSync and the Symphony Classroom digital assistant by Merlyn Mind.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Digital learning tools and digital technologies have broken down geographical barriers and provided access to educational resources for students no matter their socioeconomic status or geographic location. One of the most notable changes is the digitization of educational materials.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

This kind of connectivity is necessary, the authors note, to help connect students to high-quality digital learning opportunities. It also highlights state leaders who have helped their states put these digital learning opportunities directly in front of teachers and students. State leadership for infrastructure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Today, over 2.9 This trend follows the pattern of other public interest phenomena.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

According to the most recent figures from Funds for Learning, E-Rate applicants nationwide requested almost $748 million in discounts against the purchase of just over $1 billion in Category Two products and services, which are detailed in this chart (right). Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ?

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

A new school year means new opportunities, ambitious learning goals, and heightened prospects for kids, but for millions of our nation’s students, those opportunities come with an asterisk. No longer will lucky students engage a universe of digital learning while millions languish in a bandwidth bottleneck. As a result, $2.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Today, over 2.9 This trend follows the pattern of other public interest phenomena.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

“ New York City libraries have announced they plan to forgive the late fees of all children aged 17 and under in a one-time amnesty event,” The AP reports. Via CNET : “ Verizon to pay $17M to resolve FCC, Justice E-Rate probes.” Via CBS Minnesota : “Philando Fundraising Campaign Clears All St.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Seuss The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. Newsletter Sponsors Click for more information Learning Revolution Events More information at [link]. Connected Librarian Day! View here LIVE at 8pm ET.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Data-Protection Law Looms.” ” Via Bklyner.com : “ Brooklyn Public Library and Bard College to Offer Free College Degree Programs in 2018.” And from Phil Hill : “A Note on Data Used for LMS Market Analysis.” Davis writes in DML Central on “ The Importance of Student Privacy in Big Data.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Privacy overlaps with “personalization,” and surveillance overlaps with data collection and analytics and algorithmic decision-making. Among the larger National Education Association (NEA), which comprises more than 3 million members, more than one in three who voted did so for the billionaire developer, early data show.”

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