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What Does the National Educational Technology Plan Say About the Digital Divides?

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

Over the past few years, schools and policymakers were focused on one digital divide in K–12 education: unequal access to technology. It defines not one but three digital divides. To align to this new vision, K–12 leaders must first understand the digital…

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Closing the Digital Divide with an Emphasis on Learning

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Sponsored post Bridging the digital divide is a monumental task. It begins with providing learners with access to devices and high-quality Internet. With access to technology, there needs to be an equal focus on supporting educators on how to use it in a purposeful way that leads to improved outcomes.

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Tackling the digital divide after the pandemic

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Digitization has changed how we communicate, access services, and the extent of technology present in our lives. Ever since the internet emerged, we have witnessed a new reality among people: those who have access to technology and the internet, and those who don’t. Possible solutions to tackle the digital divide.

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Schools Must Focus on Narrowing Digital Divides

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

The plan delves deeply into shrinking three types of digital inequity: the digital use divide, the digital design divide and the digital access divide. Department of Education’s National Educational Technology Plan, which underscores its continued importance.

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Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Recognized for Addressing Digital Divide During Pandemic

Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2021

Closing the digital divide became even more important last year as students without reliable internet access at home struggled to connect to their classes. The post Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Recognized for Addressing Digital Divide During Pandemic appeared first on Digital Promise.

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How Datacasting Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a time when every child seems to have a favorite YouTube personality and a Minecraft account, it’s easy to forget that not every family has readily available internet access. Indeed, according to the U.

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How Community Coalitions Are Bridging the Digital Divide

Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Their collective efforts are meeting a range of needs—from internet access to devices to social-emotional supports. Tackling the Digital Divide with Device Deployment in Kansas City. When schools closed in mid-March, Kansas City was confronted by the region’s deep digital divide.

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Maine’s Statewide Laptop Program Boosts Tech Access, but Digital Divide Persists

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom computers can’t boost student outcomes if educators don’t know how to use them innovatively.

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ISTELive 23: How Can Professional Development Narrow the Digital Divide?

EdTech Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

One of the most robust conversations that came out of ISTELive 23 in Philadelphia was how critical professional development (PD) is to reducing the digital use divide.

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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Last week we discussed the digital divide , and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms. 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide. Making a spreadsheet.

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Path to Digital Equity: Why We Need to Address the Digital Divide with Solutions Around Adoption

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2022

Imagine creating conditions where every learner and community can fully access and leverage the technology needed for full participation in learning, the economy, and society at large. Today, it’s estimated that nearly 16 million students have neither adequate internet connection nor access to devices at home.

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CoSN2022: Technology Supports Accessible and Inclusive Learning

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 13, 2022

With a focus on closing the digital divide, school districts are now working toward making the provided technology equitable. Having devices only furthers education when students can access learning.

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The Digital Divide Has Narrowed, But 12 Million Students Are Still Disconnected

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million. points lower than their peers with reliable access. When schools closed last March, roughly 16 million U.S. Money is an issue.

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Why Connectivity Is Key to Inclusive Technology Options for Students

EdTech Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Schools and communities that previously couldn’t afford to acquire devices and internet access received grants and other financial aid to do so. This is not to say that the digital divide has ceased to be a problem. Many communities are still working toward their acquisition of devices and internet access.

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K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens. Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky.,

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A Final Frontier of the Digital Divide: Getting Wi-Fi to the Most Remote Areas

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When leaders of Ector County Independent School District learned in March that 39 percent of their students lacked reliable broadband access at home, they went to work on finding a solution. It developed business partnerships to get low-income families in Odessa, a large city that’s the county seat, free broadband access through June 2021.

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Satellite Broadband Is Expanding. Can That Reduce the Digital Divide?

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The satellites will be part of the future of internet access, but using them in education will require some creativity, Johannes Bauer, chair of the Quello Center at Michigan State University, says. And that sudden shift exposed inequities in who has access to broadband. And access for rural areas is less built out than urban ones.

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A New Framework Helps Schools Tackle Digital Equity

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Digital equity has been a primary topic of conversation in recent years, as K–12 schools contended with students who didn’t have access to the tools and skills they needed for online learning. RELATED: Educators wrestle with the real-life applications of…

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Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide

EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide. Allen isn’t a technologist by trade or hobby, but he believes students must have access to modern tools for learning because education is essential to keeping American kids competitive. ricky.ribeiro. Tue, 05/29/2018 - 23:37.

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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As the report notes: “Roadblocks like lack of technologies, students without access to at-home internet connectivity and teachers desperately needing more professional training are widening the digital divide. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed. school administrators and teachers.

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CoSN2021: Technology in the Classroom Promotes Equity in Education

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet access is the electricity of the 1930s and ’40s; it is that crucial to everyday life and learning,” said New York Commissioner of Education Betty Rosa said in a Feb. A year later, schools across the country are still struggling to bridge the gaps. 24 press release.

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The Universal Laptop Program Helping One State Narrow the Digital Divide

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And one, Mississippi, has made important strides in closing the digital divide through a pandemic response plan that took each school district’s unique needs and challenges into account. It is worth remembering that the digital divide is not an all or nothing phenomenon.

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Here’s How Colleges Should Help Close the Digital Divide in the COVID-Era

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

One key problem prevalent in many low-socioeconomic communities around the nation—like San Antonio, which now has the highest poverty rate of the country's 25 largest metro areas —is the digital divide. Together we can close the gap on the digital divide. That’s been a goal at my institution.

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Facing a Digital Divide, Student Success Requires Connectivity and Access to Technology

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The digital divide has long been a simmering problem facing millions of students that took a global pandemic to bring to a boil. At the time, nearly 16 million students in the United States lacked home internet access, according to a widely cited report from Common Sense Media. Yet, the digital divide remains a stubborn problem.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan separates technological divides — barriers that block some students from full participation — into access, design and use. Ultimately, some hope this plan will move the conversation beyond what access students have to tech and toward discussion about how effective that tech actually is in learning.

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Teaching Kids with “Paper Packets” due to Coronavirus closures with Dee Ross Kalman

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2020

Editor’s Note Why such an affluent country as the United States cannot ensure that every child have internet access astounds me. I’m not sure how anyone thinks that paper is equitable for all of these kids and less access to teachers is OK.

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Colleges Are Providing Tech to Students to Shrink the Digital Divide

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses.

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Purchasing Devices Does Not Equate to Learning

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

One of the more glaring issues was the vast digital divide that still exists in many places, especially the United States. Every day I see new articles highlighting the millions of dollars; in some cases, spent to either begin to close or eradicate the digital divide. All of these efforts are to be commended.

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Although digital technologies hold great promise in the realm of education, access remains limited for many communities worldwide. One such company, Information Equity Initiative (IEI), is working to bridge the digital divide so that all students have access to educational information. How does datacasting work?

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The digital divide still holds students back

eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although some gains in high school students’ technological device and internet access have occurred since ACT first investigated the digital divide in 2018, device and internet access of students with lower family incomes is lagging that of students with higher family incomes,” said Jeff Schiel, Ph.D,

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Ideas For Providing Internet Access At Home

The Web20Classroom

OCTOBER 7, 2016

When I was an Instructional Technology Director one of the challenges I faced was working to ensure that students, no matter where they lived in my district, had access to the same tools and opportunities. I could provide technology that could be used in the schools, and provided high speed network access while they were in schools.

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The looming threat that could worsen the digital divide

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This funding, which was crucial in bridging the digital divide, now stands at a crossroads, potentially leaving many educational institutions grappling with outdated technology and hindering access to the digital resources necessary for effective learning.

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Debunking 3 myths about BYOD in the classroom

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

At the same time, smartphones, tablets and laptops can be used to access the school LMS , with the corresponding courses and learning materials, conduct research online for a school paper, check facts fast, make use of productivity tools, and even access educational apps. Myths No 3: BYOD will deepen the digital divide.

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Five action steps to shrink the digital divide

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Titled Mind the Gap: Closing the Digital Divide through affordability, access, and adoption , the report from Connected Nation (CN), with support from AT&T, provides new insights into why more than 30 million eligible households are not opting to access internet service at home or leverage the ACP. However, 82.4

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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the report notes: “Roadblocks like lack of technologies, students without access to at-home internet connectivity and teachers desperately needing more professional training are widening the digital divide. Yet there are remaining challenges that need to be addressed. school administrators and teachers.

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AI has potential to upend student testing

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning. Identify plagiarism or cheating But there are drawbacks educators must watch for and may take time to resolve.

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A parent-led effort to close the digital divide

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Two students who received laptops because of a parent-led effort to close the digital divide for Spanish-speaking families in Clark County, Nevada. A student shows off the laptop she received thanks to of a parent-led effort to close the digital divide for Spanish-speaking families in Clark County, Nevada.

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Millions of Students With Home Internet Access Still Can’t Get Online

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking. Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. We’re going to miss this huge number—millions—of families.”

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Innovating Beyond Avoidable K-12 Crises

EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2021

the digital divide, lack of access in rural areas, weather-related disruptions, overcrowded classrooms, understaffed school buildings, bullying, and many more. Covid-19 is the most recent and most significant, and it has challenged our education system in innumerable ways.

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Beyond connectivity: using technology to support learner equity and access

Hapara

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Internet connectivity is a big deal for learner equity and access. To help the country close this digital divide, a goal of meeting or exceeding internet access at speeds of at least one megabit per second (Mbps) per student was set by the FCC. Build autonomy, self-management and digital citizenship.

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How can we close the digital divide?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We The post How can we close the digital divide? Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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5 Keys for Successful Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2020

Additionally, the digital divide is wider than many perceived. Access to devices and reliable WIFI needs to be emphasized. Kids also need access to equitable resources and learning experiences. The “haves” have tended to prosper while the “have nots” have suffered. We can ill-afford not to address this fact.

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The U.S. needs billions to close the digital divide

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

As Americans close out one year of pandemic-related school disruption and head into a second, the digital divide remains a daunting challenge for K-12 public school systems in most states.

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Q&A: Steve Langford on Equalizing Student Access to the Web and Tech

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Q&A: Steve Langford on Equalizing Student Access to the Web and Tech. Inequities in student access to reliable internet service and personal technology are not insurmountable. Langford recently talked with EdTech about the challenges of the digital divide and practical ways to overcome them. shauna.miller_miJ5.

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What Does the National Educational Technology Plan Say About the Digital Divides?

Closing the Digital Divide with an Emphasis on Learning

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Tackling the digital divide after the pandemic

Schools Must Focus on Narrowing Digital Divides

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Recognized for Addressing Digital Divide During Pandemic

How Datacasting Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide

How Community Coalitions Are Bridging the Digital Divide

Maine’s Statewide Laptop Program Boosts Tech Access, but Digital Divide Persists

ISTELive 23: How Can Professional Development Narrow the Digital Divide?

6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

Path to Digital Equity: Why We Need to Address the Digital Divide with Solutions Around Adoption

CoSN2022: Technology Supports Accessible and Inclusive Learning

The Digital Divide Has Narrowed, But 12 Million Students Are Still Disconnected

Why Connectivity Is Key to Inclusive Technology Options for Students

K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship

A Final Frontier of the Digital Divide: Getting Wi-Fi to the Most Remote Areas

Satellite Broadband Is Expanding. Can That Reduce the Digital Divide?

A New Framework Helps Schools Tackle Digital Equity

Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide

The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World

CoSN2021: Technology in the Classroom Promotes Equity in Education

The Universal Laptop Program Helping One State Narrow the Digital Divide

Here’s How Colleges Should Help Close the Digital Divide in the COVID-Era

Facing a Digital Divide, Student Success Requires Connectivity and Access to Technology

Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

Teaching Kids with “Paper Packets” due to Coronavirus closures with Dee Ross Kalman

Colleges Are Providing Tech to Students to Shrink the Digital Divide

Purchasing Devices Does Not Equate to Learning

Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

The digital divide still holds students back

Ideas For Providing Internet Access At Home

The looming threat that could worsen the digital divide

Debunking 3 myths about BYOD in the classroom

Five action steps to shrink the digital divide

The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World

AI has potential to upend student testing

A parent-led effort to close the digital divide

Millions of Students With Home Internet Access Still Can’t Get Online

Innovating Beyond Avoidable K-12 Crises

Beyond connectivity: using technology to support learner equity and access

How can we close the digital divide?

5 Keys for Successful Remote Learning

The U.S. needs billions to close the digital divide

Q&A: Steve Langford on Equalizing Student Access to the Web and Tech

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