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A Final Frontier of the Digital Divide: Getting Wi-Fi to the Most Remote Areas

EdTech Magazine

It bought mobile hotspots and installed cellphone towers on school buildings. The district secured funding from philanthropies. It developed business partnerships to get low-income families in Odessa, a large city that’s the county seat, free broadband access through June 2021. But even those efforts fell short of addressing the Wi-Fi…

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Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. Gutenberg Project This site provides thousands of digitized books, audio recordings, DVDs/CDs from the public domain (or out-of-copyright). You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Books can be read online or on mobile devices.

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Bridging the Digital Divide

EdTech Magazine

By Ryan Petersen Innovative schools are working to turn things around for underserved students.

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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity. by Wylie Wong.

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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms. School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. Buryanek recently talked with EdTech about how her district is tackling the challenge of digital equity one teacher and one mobile hotspot at a time.

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CoSN 2015: Education’s Role in the Ubiquitous Wi-Fi Future

EdTech Magazine

Frank Smith The world of education IT is on schedule to reach a tipping point, where the availability and affordability of mobile devices could completely reshape the way we learn. Mobile Apps Mobile Device Management Mobility Wi-Fi'

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Kajeet: Overcoming the K–12 Digital Divide with Education Broadband

EdTech Magazine

Stevens, Ph.D. Kajeet's modular, wireless solution is a refreshing alternative to overcoming K-12 infrastructure woes.