Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight.

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Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Digital Learning Day (DLD), held on February 5, immersed kids from coast to coast in activities like tinkering with robotics, penning blog posts, and painting digital canvases. As educators know, integrating meaningful digital learning into the classroom is a 365-day effort. By 2012, it had risen to 88 percent.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 7, 2015

.” Evan was selected from a pool of 13 distinguished candidates for identifying the national problem of school broadband access and pursuing a solution with unwavering dedication. billion per year for school broadband and $5 billion to upgrade school Wi-Fi. Congratulations, Evan!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. There is still a digital divide in classrooms based on what technology is being used and how.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 62

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In partnership with national non-profit EducationSuperHighway, NCTA, USTelecom, NTCA and their member companies will launch programs that enable school districts to identify and connect students without broadband. Since the pivot to remote learning began, many school districts have struggled to determine which families lack access at home.

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Broadband Learning Company Accessibility 40

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. "I’m not there like I feel like I should be.”

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

When Darling-Hammond looked around recently for school districts with online education plans that California might learn from, hurricane- and flood-prone districts in southern Florida stood out, she said. The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

. “The explosion in teacher interest and usage of videos and game-based learning could be a harbinger of a new awakening for digital learning” said Julie Evans, the CEO of Project Tomorrow, in a statement. Speak Up found that 50 percent of teachers were looking for such resources, up from 27 percent in 2012.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

“There are three key barriers to broadband adoption: affordability, access to hardware and understanding the relevancy to one’s education and economic prospects,” said Zach Leverenz, founder and CEO of EveryoneOn. For more information about the devices, please visit www.everyoneon.org.

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Digital Divide Broadband Tablets Education 40

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

He has worked for the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, MA as Director of Technology and Digital Learning; Newton, MA Public Schools as Director of IT and Library Media; Sharon, MA Public Schools as Director of Technology; and as Consultant at Creativemindz Consulting Group LLC. About the Host.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

Tuesday, June 17th at 10am PDT in San Anselmo, CA Common Sense Media at iTeach2014: Four Skills To Help You Discover, Use, and Share Great Digital Tools for Learning , Your classroom is ready for digital learning, but how do you find quality apps, games, and websites for students and integrate them into your teaching?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011. He holds an M.Ed

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” ” That’s according to the latest data released by the National Center for Education Statistics, which covers up to the year 2012. “In May 2008, as the Great Recession was just beginning, U.S.

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