The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

When the Covid-19 pandemic forced schools to pivot to remote learning, Nawar Almadani and her family weren’t sure what they’d do. Her three kids were enrolled in middle and elementary school; she was working toward her GED. Rebecca Winthrop, Brookings Institution.

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Laptops Study Accessibility Elementary 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

The teachers worked in elementary, middle and high schools. Then I have my [school] laptop to monitor anything if students email me during class that they’re having technical difficulties. And then I have my personal laptop on so the students can see me with Microsoft Teams.”. teaching work force.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos, used to texting quickly, was able to do simple assignments online, so at first her schoolwork was very easy.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Her school gave her a laptop, but “hotel Wi-Fi is the worst,” she says. April told lawmakers the poor Wi-Fi at her hotel discouraged her kids from participating in online learning. million school-aged children — the shuttering of classrooms and cafeterias has been disastrous. Rachel, you’re not moving.'”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 82

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school. When the district’s schools were forced to transition to online learning in March 2020, access to devices was paramount. All the schools worked together to pool available laptops and iPads.

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Accessibility Chromebook Laptops iPad 105

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

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Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 142

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

As the struggle continues, a few overarching lessons learned — about equity, expectations and communication — are now helping schools navigate this crisis on the fly. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. on March 18, 2020. on April 10, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In this episode, you hear my older sister Luisa’s story, from her early difficulties in school, to my family’s struggle to ensure that she received proper assistance for her learning disabilities, to the moment in March when Covid-19 forced everything to change. Episode 2: “No laptop and no internet” Titilayo Aluko.

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Report Laptops Online Learning System 77

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Most cell phones these days don’t come with headphone jacks, so many students only had wireless ear buds at their disposal, but needed plug-in headphones for their laptop school computers. She has a work-issued laptop and a large monitor she uses to see and acknowledge raised hands among a sea of three dozen faces.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. We have to do something about that, especially now that so many of our students are learning remotely,” Muri said.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Company 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Instead of huddling with my students, smiling and giving fist bumps, I sat in my corner of the room, providing feedback on their Google Docs from behind my laptop. Online learning platforms varied by teacher and class. During one social studies class, I was off in my corner with my laptop when a student approached me.

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Classroom Laptops Google iPad 131

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Elementary and secondary schools provide for many students’ basic needs, which may not be met when those institutions close. Students may earn worse grades as a result of courses shifting online, either because they don’t take to the format, Mazer says, or because they don’t have access to required technology like laptops, Goldrick-Rab adds.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

Not only does she need more specialized support than many students, but her vision challenges and other impairments can make online learning difficult. Advocates, educators and parents say that kids with disabilities are particularly vulnerable as schools shut down to slow the spread of the coronavirus and turn to remote learning.

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Online Learning Report Chromebook Laptops 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

What is alarming for advocates and policy-makers, is that even for families that do have broadband internet access at home, the survey found that most are “ under-connected ,” or lacking devices or service that are sufficient and reliable enough for remote learning. An additional $7.17

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 115

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

It’s the same Monday to Friday routine: Get up, change clothes, have breakfast, and turn on the laptops. Did you turn on your laptops? He turns on his laptop and waits anxiously for his classmates to say, “Good morning.” Each boy likes to eat something different for breakfast. De La Torre shouts from the kitchen.

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Laptops Blackboard Study Report 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

But as the news about the virus became increasingly grim, Rand was told to begin preparing for distance learning. She started searching for lessons provided by the online learning program Edgenuity that she could adapt for her high school students. She started the year teaching second grade at a nearby elementary school.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And that’s true even when online teachers have experience and training with online teaching. .

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Learning Training Blended Learning Laptops 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. They had something more important: basic digital literacy.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. (The

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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The KIPP TEAM Academy, in Newark, New Jersey, hosted a socially distanced distribution day where students received traditional school supplies along with tech to support online learning. This event allowed students to safely see some of their teachers in person before the start of the school year online,” she said in an email.

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Libraries Report Guidelines Meeting 141

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Half were run by teachers and half learned through an online course made by Edgenuity, one of the leading providers of online credit recovery courses. Edgenuity has since been acquired by Imagine Learning.) The online students sat together but learned at their own pace on laptops, with a teacher in the classroom.

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Software Course Instructional Materials Blended Learning 89

The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 4, 2012

In my district I have been involved with a big push to get kids learning about social media and their digital selves as early as possible. We worked the parents to help them understand the same and to help them see that social media and online learning can be beneficial for even kids that young.

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Social Media Tablets iPad Policies 154

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Leaving behind his Audubon laptop, work cellphone and office keys, he pulled his office door shut, jiggled the knob to make sure it was locked, set the school alarm and strolled out the front door. For the last five minutes of their talk, the two watched a guided meditation on a laptop. One task flowed directly into another.

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Report Laptops Study Survey 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“It just made think my children had another option to learn at home without that hostile environment.” Hidalgo’s son, meanwhile, struggled to complete virtual class assignments without a cell phone or laptop. Olga Hidalgo, home-schooler.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Terri, who teaches sixth grade at Old River Elementary School, also observes that Classroom can strengthen ties and improve communication. The Classroom mobile apps have also become essential for our faculty and students, we use them to stay connected even when we’re not in front of a laptop,” Cubells said. Giving Teachers Superpowers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Because all Success Academy students have school-issued laptops or tablets, that means all parents are equipped to attend remote meetings, which the charter operator plans to continue indefinitely. “I I wouldn’t want to go back to a world where we didn’t prioritize parental convenience,” says Dr.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually creating the learning experience that we’re going for.”. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

MindShift

JUNE 9, 2020

Brown Elementary School. Distance learning plan: Paper packets or online lessons equivalent to 22.5 Parma Elementary School. Early Learning Center at Mary Castle Elementary School. Pequea Elementary School. Lobit Elementary School. Coral Zayas. Bilingual grade 5 science teacher. Austin, Texas.

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Learning Elementary Meeting Video 66

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. She worked as a home health aide and couldn’t monitor Ezekiel online.

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Data Analysis Online Learning Laptops 100

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Imagine sharing student presentations to the world!)

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MOOC Khan Academy BYOD Libraries 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 122

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning. In the meantime, some school districts have decided that providing virtual learning may not be worth the effort. And now it’s all taken away.” said Glick. “I

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Broadband Chromebook Laptops Meeting 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Photo: Andrew Franco.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90