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We have this huge digitaldivide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digitaldivide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We
However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digitaldivide. 82 percent of families and 80 percent of educators surveyed feel strongly that high-speed Internet at home is extremely important to fulfilling learning outcomes.
Related: Survey reveals stark rich-poor divide in how U.S. Overcoming the digitaldivide is just one of the many challenges Latino students — who make up 25 percent of all schoolchildren now and will be more than a third of that population by 2050 — are facing.
In a spring survey in California, nearly one-third of Spanish-speaking families said that they could not understand the distance learning information sent home by their children’s schools. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.
The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digitaldivide. In Occidental, California, Matthew Morgan, superintendent of the Harmony Union School District, said the pandemic has exposed a big digitaldivide and online learning was slow to roll out. “We
The organization also organizes the Speak Up survey each year. CoSN is a professional association and advocacy group for district technology leaders with a goal of “empowering educational leaders to leverage technology to create engaging learning environments and provide the tools essential for their success”. Technology Leadership.
“We believed if we had connectivity in every classroom, that would give every teacher the opportunity to take advantage of digital learning.”. EducationSuperHighway surveyed school districts and found that 94 percent use digital learning in at least half of their classrooms every week. Their plan seems to have worked.
The district gathers information and feedback through surveys, posts social media messages and information on its website, produces a newsletter, and uses Let’s Talk, an app that facilitates parent questions answered by district leaders and department heads who respond and further staff-researched to provide additional information to the community.
A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.
Last week , Excel in Ed hosted Commissioner Morat h and Jennifer Esterline , founder and director of Educate Texas’ Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Consortium , for a deep dive into about the state’s COVID-19 strategy and approach.? ? . Bridging the DigitalDivide. Designing New School Models.
But America’s persistent digitaldivide has greatly hampered efforts toward this goal. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. Inequity looms large. That demands a fluid, iterative approach, one that seeks and adjusts to feedback.
Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Nearly a third of high school students surveyed reported persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, according to the CDC. It’s tough.
Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digitaldivide in the US has become, how much it is contributing to a two-tiered society, and, perhaps most important, whether it can be bridged – something that will be crucial to keeping the country competitive in the global economy of tomorrow. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.
It’s time to close the digitaldivide and focus on making sure communities with broadband access have the skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the internet. It’s time to close the digitaldivide and focus on making sure communities with broadband access have the skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the internet.
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