Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2015

The funding requested by schools reached nearly $5 billion in 2012 and 2013, according to District Administration magazine. Riverside Unified School District in California and Piedmont City School District in Alabama both used Learning On-the-Go , a pilot program through E-rate, to connect students at home, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But time with tablets and smartphones is triple what it was in 2013. Common Sense Media “The digital divide is shrinking but the need to support that technology is pervasive,” says Gail Lovely, an early learning expert and co-author of “ Using an iPad With Your PreSchooler.”

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Education Elements

JUNE 8, 2016

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. However, with the publication of “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” the conversations changed and the idea began to gain traction.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 187

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In 2013, our SchoolSpeedTest analysis of K-12 broadband purchasing revealed only 30 percent of school districts nationwide met the Federal Communications Commission’s minimum Internet access goal of 100 kbps per student, leaving 40 million students without the broadband needed for digital learning. with access to fiber.

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Broadband Report E-rate Digital Learning 40

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Ninety-nine percent of America’s schools now have high-speed broadband connections capable of providing enough bandwidth to enable their students and teachers to use technology in the classroom. million teachers in 83,000 schools have the Internet access they need for digital learning. since 2013. million students and 2.8

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Broadband Digital Divide Digital Learning Report 69

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Kelley reflected that tech enablers and system thinking would drive the following year.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the effort to ensure that all students have equal access to the broadband they need for digital learning, there are challenges and triumphs every year. The FCC Announced Rural Broadband Month. For the first time, the FCC designated August as Rural Broadband Month. In 2013, Internet access cost a whopping $22 per Mbps.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Accessibility 63

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2024

Since 2013, demands on edtech leaders have surged, yet district resources have not kept pace with these escalating needs,” said Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN. A growing number of districts no longer provide any services to address student home broadband access–31 percent this year compared to 19 percent just two years ago.

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EdTech Survey Broadband Report 118

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

ReadyRosie’s goal with its platform is to provide these videos, usually two minutes in length, to parents as instructions for games and activities to continue learning after preschool. The company is interested in how new technology like machine learning and voice recognition might impact early childcare learning outcomes.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

EducationSuperHighway today released its annual State of the States report highlighting the major progress that has been achieved to connect nearly every public school classroom to high-speed broadband. million students across the nation who lack access to the minimum connectivity required for digital learning. million students and 2.6

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. Join the Community.

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Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Is technology necessary to personalize learning? However, it remains clear that more work and investment are needed over the long run to address the digital equity challenge of today and provide robust broadband connectivity for all students in and outside of school.”.

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Blended Learning Broadband Report Tablets 86

The Principal of Change

JANUARY 5, 2017

I was interested by this: The president took that chance to tout some of his education initiatives such as investing in preschool education and a push to connect classrooms to broadband internet. Or engaging group learning that solves world problems? Teachers that are sharing and learning from others around the world.

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Broadband Groups Classroom Technology 67

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

million more compared to 2013. E-Rate , an FCC program that provides funding to help schools and libraries build fiber infrastructure and expand their wi-fi and broadband networks. According to the report, 83 percent of schools now have adequate wi-fi in place to support 1:1 learning environments. EducationSuperHighway.

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E-rate Broadband Report Comparison 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We RELATED: Hot spots no silver bullet for rural remote learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Also notable is the continuing dip in the number of angel and seed deals, which have fallen from a peak of more than 100 in 2013 to less than half that number in 2018. Over time, as investors learned which business models worked—and which didn’t—some have fled the sector. Breaking down investments by rounds, the lion’s share of the $1.45

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EdTech Company Industry Edmodo 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The Indira Gandhi Stadium, India’s largest indoor arena with the capacity to seat about 20,000 people, played host to an event in 2013 much different than its usual lineup of concerts and badminton competitions. He offered online live and video classes through broadband and satellite to teach students beyond the centers’ walls.

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Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Today, we released our fourth annual State of the States report: Expanding Digital Learning to Every Classroom, Every Day and we are proud to announce that 40.7 Since 2013, the number of states with 99% of students connected has swelled from four to 20. million last year. million today. billion, but 7,823 school districts have over $1.4

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

This post is the first of a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis. The organization’s vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science. Organization: Code.org ®.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. By Chloe, Age 6.

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Education Superhighway

JUNE 14, 2018

In Alaska, where we recently announced a partnership with Governor Bill Walker to address statewide school connectivity, the challenges that rural Alaska communities typically face in getting scalable broadband infrastructure are especially acute. How Have Other Communities Secured Broadband Access?

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Meeting Broadband E-rate Digital Learning 53

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Many online homework tools already exist, and they allow students to practice what they learn in school and get immediate and very focused feedback on their work. Those dull, outdated assignments don’t further learning goals and only serve to disengage students. Related: School districts are going into debt to keep up with technology.

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

As digital learning transforms education across the country, how can board members ensure that their policies and budget decisions support digital learning opportunities and the robust infrastructure needed to support it? Digital learning opportunities now extend far beyond online testing and digitized versions of textbooks.

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Digital Learning Future Ready Broadband Digital Divide 45

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

Using digital tools in the classroom isn’t the future of learning, it’s the present—except at the significant percentage of schools without reliable high-speed internet. Enabling users to combine text with images and narration, the software has the potential to help boost literacy skills and appeal to diverse learning styles.

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Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 46

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Using what it learned from the strings program, the district decided to offer courses for free — with the help of its Race to the Top grant. ’” Connecting Every Student to Personalized Learning. "This

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Technology has become a vital component of teaching and learning, and it is considered a classroom requirement to adequately prepare students for life after graduation. Daniel Owens, partner at The Learning Accelerator. The market research firm IDC estimates that $4.9 billion was spent on software.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. In February of 2014, Obama rounded up technology donations worth more than a $1 billion from U.S.

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Adobe Broadband E-rate Future Ready 60

Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

By Kathleen Costanza 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.

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Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 18, 2021

full description) “The COVID-19 Learning Pack” - Yusuf Ganyana - THE COVID-19 LEARNING PACK, LAIBU MKONONI (full description) 2:00 PM (US-Pacific Time) 30-minute concurrent sessions “Launching a Digital Navigators Program at the Library” - Audrey Barbakoff, Ed.D.,

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 50

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.

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Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

High-speed broadband that can support digital learning requires a combination of scalable fiber-optic connections, sufficient and affordable bandwidth, and robust internal networks that can deliver information onto student devices in the classroom. Design networks that support future bandwidth and digital learning demands.

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E-rate Broadband Comparison Digital Learning 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

12 Principles Of Mobile Learning. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization. As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. As mobile learning is a blend of the digital and physical, diverse metrics (i.e., by Terry Heick. Asynchronous . Self-Actuated.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Learning Edmodo 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2021

With a focus on under-resourced, tribal, and rural communities in critical need, her current projects involve propagating broadband connections to new community spaces via emerging wireless networking technologies for everyday usage and crisis recovery. SecondNets, as a 2 year development project, won an IMLS grant and launched Oct.

Libraries 48

Libraries Conference Broadband Digital Divide 48