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. A new 2017 survey of technology use at home shows the gap in computer access is rapidly closing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Now the quality of digital participation is coming into question. Recent studies have shown that lower income children often spend more time with technology as it has become a type of “digital babysitter” for parents who have to be out of the house for extended periods of time.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The digital divide is proving one of the most pervasive and stubborn challenges in U.S. A new study confirms that, despite efforts to close the space, the gap between students who have access to devices and the internet and those who lack it compounds equity problems within U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

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. Think lots of nuts-and-bolts, this-should-go-into-a-checklist details punctuated with brief case studies.

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Broadband Report Video EdTech 163

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A new study shows that one reason is racial segregation. 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.

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Accessibility Broadband Digital Divide Policies 132

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Why students should have internet access at home When it comes to digital equity , U.S. schools are well-positioned to help families get online with low-cost, high-speed internet options through the federal government’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), according to a new study from Discovery Education and Comcast.

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Meeting E-rate Digital Divide Comparison 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

A new study suggests that this sort of technology overuse doesn’t just pop up during adolescence. The study focused on fifth graders who said they were playing online video games, using social media or texting “many times” a day and their characteristics and behavior in kindergarten. “We Some racked up considerably more hours.

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Study Social Media Elementary Smartphone 140

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. Recent studies by Deloitte and the Gates Foundation have shed light into how educators engage with edtech. A different ‘digital divide’ has emerged. That’s arguably the case for U.S.

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EdTech Survey Digital Divide Classroom 137

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

To get a sense of what the widespread closure of libraries could mean, and hear some creative ways libraries are reaching out digitally, we talked with Jessamyn West, an educational technologist who runs the librarian.net blog and is author of "Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide." I live in Orange County.

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Libraries Digital Divide Accessibility Survey 203

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

Address the digital divide. As thousands of school districts across the country have rolled out remote learning, many have discovered that students have very different sets of resources when it comes to digital education tools. This raises the question: How exactly should schools invest in technology to keep up?

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Technology Digital Divide Education Digital Citizenship 247

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to a 2019-20 survey administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, nine out of 10 schools reported that their computers met the school’s teaching and learning needs to a moderate or large extent. Digital divides persist, but schools have made some progress in addressing these barriers.

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EdTech Groups Digital Divide Training 184

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Studies have shown that low SES students test scores go up 30% when they have access to mobile devices. Surveys show low SES schools tend to have less access to technology and teachers integrate devices like cell phones at far lower rates. Mostly due to increased engagement. Access is a basic right in our country.

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BYOD Digital Divide Mobility Survey 94

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Qustodio’s report, involving over 400,000 families and schools, studies the popularity of apps and platforms used by children around the world, with further insights into habits in major world markets, including the US, UK, France, Spain, and Australia. New tools are needed in cybersecurity to fight AI attacks with AI protection.

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Chromebook Data Trends Social Media 104

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2023

Digital Equity helps school and district leaders understand the challenges students experience while trying to study outside of school so they can ensure all students stay connected to learning. Digital Equity is customizable, giving leaders the option to turn on specific data and usage stats.

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System Student Data Privacy Digital Divide Broadband 67

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

One example is New Jersey, where schools and districts were required to submit to the state “a survey weekly of how many students lacked devices and/or WiFi,” according to Erica Hartman, Director of Technology Integration at New Jersey’s Morris School District. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 138

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

During a forum hosted by public policy think tank New America to discuss this new data, Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting FCC Chairwoman, called the homework gap “an especially cruel” part of the digital divide that existed long before the pandemic. There are some positive findings in the survey. An additional $7.17

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 114

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

A Strada Public Viewpoint survey released in June found that Black and Latino students are more likely than white students to have changed or canceled their education plans because of the pandemic. The pandemic threatens to undo all of these even modest gains, and certainly imperils progress among students of color and low-income students.

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Accessibility Broadband Survey Digital Divide 135

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. In 2014, Palmdale School District was experiencing a major digital divide. A recent study found that 48 percent of teachers feel they don’t have the proper training to leverage their classroom technology. How do you combat this trend?

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Digital Learning Digital Divide Classroom Learning 115

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. In addition, you’ll create practical tools such as rubrics for teacher observation, surveys for self-assessment reports, and data collection checklists and notes for interviews.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide. In Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digital divide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We

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Digital Divide Laptops Accessibility Online Learning 115

MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. The study looked at two scenarios: a “slowdown,” in which students stayed at the same level of academic achievement from the days schools closed until the new school year begins. References.

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Meeting Digital Divide Education STEM 61

MindShift

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The nationally representative parent survey found that 98 percent of homes with children now have a mobile device — such as a tablet or smartphone. ” Other eye-grabbing highlights from the survey: 42 percent of young children now have their very own tablet device — up from 7 percent four years ago and less than 1 percent in 2011.

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Digital Divide Smartphone Tablets Mobility 54

Mistakengoal.com

JUNE 25, 2014

Two weeks ago, I defended my dissertation NON-RESPONSE BIAS ON WEB-BASED SURVEYS AS INFLUENCED BY THE DIGITAL DIVIDE AND PARTICIPATION GAP. I’ll be sure to write more here if I do any further work with this study. It’s been about a year-and-a-half since my last post about my dissertation.

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Survey Digital Divide Analysis Data 40

Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

One study looking at labor market recovery after recessions found that displaced workers ages 55 to 64 were 16 percentage points less likely to be re-employed at the time of follow-up surveys than workers ages 35 to 44.16 We can start with enrollment and fields of study. Consider the job growth/decline chart above again.

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Report Digital Divide Mobility Robotics 64

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. 3:48 Great.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The superintendent in Lincoln, Nebraska, says a district survey this past fall found that 10% of parents liked remote learning – pandemic or not. Federal funds help narrow the digital divide. New York City’s Success Academy, a public charter of 20,000 students studying virtually, has turned to Zoom for all parent meetings. “We

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Technology LMS Classroom Trends 68

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Leaders & Decision Makers, Digital Learning and Instructional Technologists, IT Admins, Network Admins, IT Security, IT Infrastructure roles, School Counselors, Safety leaders, and SROs. 1:27 Finally, we will have a short survey at the end that will pop up on your screen We really appreciate if you can take the time to fill that out.

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EdTech Survey Learning Data 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

The “digital divide” is still very real. The digital use divide is present in both formal and informal learning settings and across high- and low-poverty schools and communities,” explains a report from the U.S. Data from the 2015 Teachers Know Best survey , Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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EdTech Classroom Digital Divide Data 60

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. 3:48 Great.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Nationwide, one out of four teenagers from low-income households lacks access to a home computer and, overall, Latino students have less access than their black and white peers, according to a 2018 survey by the Pew Research Center. Here the digital divide for access is now almost zero,” Porter says of his Chromebook program.

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Technology Chromebook Laptops iPad 104

Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

One study looking at labor market recovery after recessions found that displaced workers ages 55 to 64 were 16 percentage points less likely to be re-employed at the time of follow-up surveys than workers ages 35 to 44.16 We can start with enrollment and fields of study. Consider the job growth/decline chart above again.

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Report Digital Divide Mobility Robotics 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

According to a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement and National Writing Project teachers on how they use technology, “there are striking differences in the role of technology in wealthier school districts compared with poorer school districts.”. In rural areas where there is no broadband access, that isn’t the case.”.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

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. As studies have shown, screen time before bed can interfere with sleep , and background TV can also have negative effects on kids.

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Mobility Digital Divide Digital Citizenship Mobile Learning 40

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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Case Study Study Digital Divide Broadband 52

Educator Innovator

JUNE 22, 2013

Just prior to the 2012 election, YPP released results of a national survey that questioned 3,000 young people, ages 15-25 on how they use the Internet, social media and engage in politics. Much of this research comes from the Youth and Participatory Politics (YPP) research network sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.

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Education Digital Divide Comparison Survey 28

NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies. Permissive website access at school allows students who don’t have home Internet access to find essential resources for their personal and educational development, narrowing the digital divide that these students already may be experiencing.

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