Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million. This progress is “significant,” write the authors of a report that details the groups’ findings. The majority of efforts since March 2020 are temporary, stop-gap measures,” according to the report. “In Money is an issue.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Last week we discussed the digital divide , and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund a series of research reports called Teachers Know Best.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This year's National Educational Technology Plan focuses on three distinct types of digital divides. The post New Federal Report Underscores Tech Sector’s Role in Combating Disparities appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

As Americans close out one year of pandemic-related school disruption and head into a second, the digital divide remains a daunting challenge for K-12 public school systems in most states.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Today we launch right in with a topic that is on the minds and hearts of many teachers – the “digital divide”; that silent, pernicious socioeconomic gap between students that have and students that do not have access to technology. Digital divide: facts and figures. Income vs. Access: The Digital Divide in the US.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

households lack what has become a basic need, according to a new report by EducationSuperHighway, an education nonprofit that in 2019 helped to almost eliminate the internet connectivity gap in classrooms across the country. However, 28.2 million U.S. The nonprofit is launching EducationSuperHighway 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Two students who received laptops because of a parent-led effort to close the digital divide for Spanish-speaking families in Clark County, Nevada. A student shows off the laptop she received thanks to of a parent-led effort to close the digital divide for Spanish-speaking families in Clark County, Nevada.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The post Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

So it is when discussing the idea of digital equity. Reality check: A 2021 report from Common Sense Media found that 15 to 16 million K-12 public school students in the U.S. Every student deserves the right to high-bandwidth, solid-state, always-on access to the Internet, right?

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, with the shift to remote learning, the conversation around the digital divide became impossible to ignore. There was a push, in tandem with these conversations, to bring connectivity and the meaningful integration of technology to students who lacked it.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Here are key findings from their report. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed. school administrators and teachers.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Over the past eight years, WANRack has worked with schools and communities to close the digital divide and ensure students have access to digital learning in every classroom, every day. A focus on the technology needs of modern schools and a commitment to collaboration will close help us continue to close the digital divide.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide” is a follow up to a June analysis by Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense. The report is based on existing research plus 18 interviews with stakeholders. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Here are key findings from their report. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed. school administrators and teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. Here are key findings from their report. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed. school administrators and teachers.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Here is the full report.) Not surprisingly, those who rely on cell phones to do so report having the hardest time. The survey found that students report being less likely than teachers to have a consistently quiet place to work. Teachers report overwhelmingly using their LMS—but few other educational technology programs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Our society relies on the internet for education, jobs, and personal needs, yet our country’s digital divide has been an ongoing issue, affecting the 14.5 The digital divide refers to the gap between those who have access to modern information and technology that support info-sharing and those who have little to no access.

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Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

However, digital learning comes with its own set of challenges, and the most fundamental challenge is the concept of digital equity and our very real digital divide. Disparities in digital access, also referred to as digital equity, remain challenging for K-12 education.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Back in 2017, the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2016

This week, the digital divide is back in focus yet again. But there are some Google Fiber programs that might be well-positioned to tackle the digital divide. Read on for more: 3 Google Fiber programs that could help ease the digital divide. Digital divide hits small towns hard.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For years policymakers have fretted about the “digital divide,” that poor students are less likely to have computers and high-speed internet at home than rich students. “We have closed certain aspects of the digital divide,” said Michael Robb, research director for Common Sense.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While studying this digital divide, Skinner, an assistant professor of higher education and policy at the University of Florida, noticed that conversation around the issue is often presented as an urban-rural divide. These things being the disparities that we see in the visual and digital divide.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

This landscape requires a formal and deliberate approach to teaching digital citizenship and creating systems to support its classroom implementation. This means not only teaching specific digital citizenship skills across the curriculum, but also communicating with (and teaching) parents as well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

For their first installment, the group published a report based on a roundtable discussion held with leaders from community colleges, Hispanic-Serving Institutions and historically Black colleges and universities. A Digital Divide — Or Bridge? A virtual reality headset costs hundreds of dollars.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Back in 2017, the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 19, 2020

Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Back in 2017, the U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

EducationSuperHighway created a tool to help schools identify students without internet access at home and, in the process, learned a lot more about the digital divide. The broadband affordability gap is the largest portion of the digital divide in 43 states, according to a report from EducationSuperHighway.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Unfortunately, the digital divide is a very real barrier to success in our community,” said Audra Bluehouse, an English teacher at Hatch Valley High. “We Next page: What policymakers are doing to close the digital divide. In rural communities, the problem is even worse — only one in three can access the internet at home.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

COVID-19 did not create the digital divide for students, added Robin Lake, the panel moderator and the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), which is based out of the University of Washington and has been tracking school districts’ transitions to distance learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As high-speed internet service becomes more ubiquitous in American households, some readers might be surprised to find out that a “digital divide” exists in many of our schools. So the digital divide in fact is a misnomer; it’s really a terrestrial digital divide as the FCC itself has now concluded.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Highlights from the survey include: Keeping Up Academically and the Digital Divide : Eighty-two percent of teachers say it’s been difficult for their students to keep up academically during the pandemic, though only 45 percent of parents have the same concern for their own child. Digital Divide.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 9, 2020

A key output of this work is the K-12 Bridge to Broadband initiative, a mechanism we view as a potential game-changer in closing the digital divide. Funding: There needs to be federal funding for student home digital access. Read the full report here or visit Digital Bridge K-12. . population. .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Among the key findings in the report and survey: Cybersecurity Tops the List: The report underscores that “cybersecurity” is now the paramount concern in K-12 education–an increase in priority since 2022. The report highlights the urgent need for comprehensive AI strategies at the federal and state level.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

We hope to share these best practices and inform the work of many more school systems, as well as the work of state chiefs of education and governors as they plan to use unprecedented federal funding to close the digital divide. There is another consideration that we must take into account when aiming to close the Digital Learning Gap.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2020

“This difference in the graduation rates is especially concerning because we know those without a high school diploma experience lower earnings and higher unemployment than those with a diploma,” states the DOE report. DISCOVER: Learn how a school district is solving the digital-equity problem for ELL students.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2021

We’ve heard a lot of people talking about the digital divide over the past year, but it existed long before the pandemic. According to a report by the Pew Research Center, roughly 31 percent of women have worried about paying their broadband bill during the pandemic. Jackie, a United State of Women Ambassador in Norfolk, Va.,

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