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The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 14, 2025
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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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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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School Computer Labs: 5 Reasons They Still Matter
ViewSonic Education
MAY 20, 2025
Thanks to 1:1 device programs, students now carry their tech with them from class to class, giving them on-the-spot access to digital tools without ever stepping foot in a traditional lab. EdTech Magazine shares a great example from St. Globally, the divide starts with something as basic as internet access.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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.,
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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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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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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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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Can Affordable Computing Education Bridge the Global Digital Divide?
Edsurge
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. This is where Code Clubs come in.
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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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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 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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North Carolina’s Digital Equity Office Will Help Close Divide Facing K–12 Students
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the ongoing digital divide in the United States, in cities and in rural America. Students and their families, impacted by the necessary shift to remote learning, perhaps felt the repercussions of the divide most directly. In July, Gov.
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Improved State Leadership and More Fiber Connectivity Mark the Future of School Internet
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
By Meghan Bogardus Cortez While the digital divide has lessened, there is more work to be done to connect students to learning opportunities.
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Summer Reading Online
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 19, 2023
Once you find a book, you access a scanned version (if available, say from Project Gutenberg) or purchase it at a linked bookstore. Access this catalog via the website. Access this collection via the website. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface.
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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
EDTECH: What challenges related to digital equity are you facing in your district? We have a divide, whether it’s a socioeconomic divide or an opportunity divide. It’s a digital divide too. Those students can take their laptops home, but when they get home there’s a divide in connectivity.
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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity. by Wylie Wong.
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Kajeet and Google Partner to Close the Homework Gap
EdTech Magazine
JULY 22, 2022
In June, Kajeet and Google announced their partnership to deploy a private 5G network with the goal of closing the digital divide for K–12 students. Kajeet’s Private 5G Platform will launch on Google’s Distributed Cloud Edge, allowing schools, students and communities to access the network.
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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
EdTech Magazine
JULY 7, 2020
Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Still, the alarm bells didn’t sound.
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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
MAY 26, 2020
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.
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EdTech Magazine
JULY 30, 2018
Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes. There will be questions about accessibility and equity. The implementation was a total success.
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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
EdTech Magazine
JULY 19, 2020
Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Still, the alarm bells didn’t sound.
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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
EdTech Magazine
JULY 19, 2020
Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19. Still, the alarm bells didn’t sound.
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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate
EdTech Magazine
MAY 16, 2020
DISCOVER: Learn how a school district is solving the digital-equity problem for ELL students. One of the reasons why they struggle is because they have “little or no access to quality instruction tailored to their needs,” according to NPR’s deep dive into the state of education for ELLs nationwide.
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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate
EdTech Magazine
MAY 15, 2020
DISCOVER: Learn how a school district is solving the digital-equity problem for ELL students. One of the reasons why they struggle is because they have “little or no access to quality instruction tailored to their needs,” according to NPR’s deep dive into the state of education for ELLs nationwide.
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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate
EdTech Magazine
MAY 13, 2020
DISCOVER: Learn how a school district is solving the digital-equity problem for ELL students. One of the reasons why they struggle is because they have “little or no access to quality instruction tailored to their needs,” according to NPR’s deep dive into the state of education for ELLs nationwide.
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How K–12 Schools Monitor Attendance During Remote Learning
EdTech Magazine
MAY 6, 2020
After all, they’ve had a lot to figure out — from finding ways to bridge the digital divide to ensuring student security and privacy online. With the rapid transition to remote learning, it’s been a trying time for many school districts across the country. Another major challenge is maintaining student attendance.
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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
JUNE 3, 2020
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.
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EdTech Magazine
JUNE 1, 2020
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.
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150 How K?12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
MAY 29, 2020
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.
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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
MAY 26, 2020
Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.
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When Virtual Learning Barriers Collapse, Inclusion Expands
EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction.
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When Virtual Learning Barriers Collapse, Inclusion Expands
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 31, 2020
They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction.
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When Virtual Learning Barriers Collapse, Inclusion Expands
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2020
They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction.
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When Virtual Learning Barriers Collapse, Inclusion Expands
EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
They’re discussing and chipping away at long-standing digital divides. But with efforts to provide devices and Wi-Fi access, educators still are missing — or inadvertently reducing — opportunities to better serve all students. They are leveraging the flexibility to provide on-demand instruction.
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Addressing the Digital Access Gap: One District’s Success
edWeb.net
JUNE 16, 2023
In the case of Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD), it was narrowing the digital access gap, landing it CoSN’s Community Leadership Award for Digital Equity. Parents can also access the LMS to see what their children are learning.
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