eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

The Stay Connected K-12 offering is part of the District’s broader efforts to help close the digital divide in its communities and make it easier for all students to fulfill their academic potential. Students and their families can benefit from: Download speeds up to 100 Mbps to support video collaboration and large file transfers.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 25, 2023

To inspire tomorrow’s brightest minds, educators need today’s best tools. Introducing Verizon Innovative Learning HQ, an easy-to-use, free online portal that empowers educators to bring new ways of learning into the classroom. It’s all part of Verizon’s commitment to helping close the digital divide.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Users can enjoy: Download speeds up to 50 Mbps to support video collaboration and large file transfers. Charter has connected thousands of students and educators through Stay Connected K-12 agreements throughout its 41-state footprint, and is working with officials at the CMSD to connect students quickly.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2016

Here are three tools educators agree do exactly that: DialMyCalls. Education Applications. Education Applications. This is a valuable tool for encouraging good classroom behavior, helping students to recognize inappropriate actions, and involving parents as partners in the education process. Educational Applications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

At the beginning of the 21st century, the definition of digital equity revolved around the provision of a digital device to every student. As digital equity discussions matured and hyperbole became reality, educators found that those loudly-touted digital devices often became paperweights. Gutenberg Project.

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2017

For educators, the survey data help us better understand what’s going on at home and can guide our thinking about the role teachers play in shaping students’ media use. For educators, the rise of mobile media in homes presents us with an important role to play for kids and families.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Whether it’s used for homework-assignment web searches, streamed video tutorials, educational apps or collaborative multimedia projects, fast internet at home is rapidly turning into a necessity for America’s students. Nobody can own spectrum, but they can get a license to use specific frequencies, which the FCC grants by geography.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. But America’s persistent digital divide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. Related: Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works? on March 18, 2020.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2020

While there are plenty of best practice guides available for online learning, strategies for bridging the digital divide are scarce. . Many providers are also waiving late fees for existing customers and increasing data caps for mobile hotspots. According to recent federal data , approximately 14 percent of U.S. Jen Clayton.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Johnson also didn’t want her children to go through the next two months with no educational tools beyond the worksheets she’d picked up from the Greenville Public School District and limited access to online materials through Kentiona’s phone, shared between the four of them. Meanwhile, education is just one role schools fill.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 31, 2020

With the possibility of remote learning returning this fall, the City of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the philanthropic community, and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs) recognized a historic opportunity to eliminate broadband accessibility as a barrier to digital learning. 1 | FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS EXPOSE DIGITAL INEQUITIES.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Compilation of research by respected educational technologists across the nation. Publicizes key trends and challenges and predictions for adoption educational technology. Digital media literacy continues to rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession. have a mobile phone. 80+% have mobile phones.

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MindShift

MARCH 20, 2015

He found that in 1950s Ohio, who your parents were mattered much less: Most of his classmates, regardless of the education or economic levels of their parents, achieved more and led better lives than their parents did. So the school rallied together, and provided a counselor to the girl over the summer. Well connected but still alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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