Edsurge
DECEMBER 22, 2023
One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. So, three PBS member stations came together, recognizing they could use their television spectrum to directly serve kids on the other side of the digital divide.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 28, 2021
But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digital divide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. The tablets are theirs to hold onto for their entire undergraduate careers. Loaning the occasional laptop is not a new practice in higher education, but providing them en masse may be.
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ViewSonic Education
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
While there are still challenges associated with the digital divide and access to technology, this gap is shrinking all the time, especially with smartphones widening access to digital content and software. The idea of ‘edutainment’ is certainly a growing trend and an area that the metaverse can help to cater to.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 4, 2020
Only 24 percent of public school teachers reported that all of their students had access to a computer or tablet to use for school work, according to a nationally representative survey of 600 public school teachers conducted in early May by Educators for Excellence (E4E). Some students will have just the normal kind of summer learning loss.”.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2021
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! We need to ensure that every student gets the connectivity they need to thrive so no child is left offline.”.
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.
Marketplace K-12
JULY 5, 2016
The finding that teachers who are least confident in educational technology tend to work in high-poverty and urban schools offers yet another reason to worry about the evolving “digital divide” in K-12. One lesson had students use their tablet computers to find a document on disappearing honeybees.
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