Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

But the term doesn’t just mean equipping students with the same devices and broadband access. We started a couple of years ago with a digital equity group to focus on this issue when we started seeing issues related to the digital divide. But access is maybe the first part of the digital divide.

Technology 218

Technology Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Tailwinds: An Enabling Ecosystem A baseline enabling condition for game-based learning is access to computers and broadband. COVID has also accelerated funding for broadband in underserved neighborhoods. While there is still work to do in closing the digital divide, access is becoming less of a limiting factor for game-based learning.

Game-Based Learning 176

Game-Based Learning Broadband Learning Company 176

The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2019

In Albemarle County, Virginia, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, radio towers rise above an apple orchard on Carters Mountain, outside Charlottesville. We’ve kind of realized that schools aren’t necessarily the best at operating broadband networks, so we should let people specialize.”.

Broadband 106

Broadband Education Policies Digital Divide 106

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Over the next few months, I’ll share the experience and highlights in a series of columns for EdSurge with highlights from the course. When students in my graduate seminar on education technology were given the chance to select a topic for a class session, they wanted to devote time to the digital world’s dark side. This is part 5.

Digital Divide 114

Digital Divide Social Media Broadband Analysis 114

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2016

To support powerful use of technology in classrooms, you need powerful infrastructure, includingadequate broadband and wireless, a mobile device management system (MDM), and a clear device incident workflow. The digital divide has been bridged, and every learner now has access — at school and at home. Ready to Manage.

Digital Divide 96

Digital Divide Broadband Accessibility Mobility 96

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

As a result, school district IT teams will look to vendors and broadband solution providers to support other use cases in 2021 that go beyond COVID-19, such as school bus security cameras and indoor IoT to help manage building operations (e.g. GHz frequency of the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band. temperature, lighting).

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I dislike fraudulent courses. Tagged on: July 9, 2017 As the Digital Divide Grows, an Untapped Solution Languishes: Educational Broadband Service (EBS) | Wired → Most EBS license holders don’t actually use their free spectrum. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes.

EdTech 150

EdTech E-rate Software Data 150

Tom Murray

AUGUST 21, 2016

Code.org ® believes computer science should be part of core curriculum, alongside other courses such as biology, chemistry, or algebra. This leading nonprofit believes in the promise of digital learning opportunities and advocates for all students to have equal access to educational opportunity. Organization: Common Sense Education.

Future Ready 100

Future Ready EdTech Advocacy Data 100

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Lack of high-speed Internet prevents teachers and students from taking full advantage of the transformational power of digital learning and leaves millions of kids on the wrong side of the digital divide. High-speed broadband equalizes educational opportunity and accelerates learning. As a result, $2.5

Broadband 40

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Digital Learning 40

Education Superhighway

MARCH 21, 2022

After experiencing the impact of the digital divide in my own community of southcentral Los Angeles during the pandemic, I became personally invested in ensuring that all households, regardless of their background, had access to quality Internet service and devices.

Digital Divide 52

Digital Divide Broadband Meeting Course 52

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. In rural areas where there is no broadband access, that isn’t the case.”. Without adequate broadband, of course, even the latest or most promising digital tools are useless.

Broadband 46

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 46

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

EveryoneOn is a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service, computers and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans.

Digital Divide 40

Digital Divide Broadband Tablets Education 40

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2016

Read on for more: Can your internet service provider help close the digital divide? The digital divide is a reality for three out of four American families, meaning approximately eight million individuals under the age of 18 are living without internet access. Distance learning fills core gaps at rural school.

Digital Divide 40

Digital Divide Broadband Survey Video 40

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

While broadband wasn’t a specific focus of the survey, Purcell said that the issue did arise frequently in focus groups. In rural areas where there is no broadband access, that isn’t the case.” Without adequate broadband, of course, even the latest or most promising digital tools are useless.

Broadband 36

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 36

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The pandemic highlighted the massive digital divide that exists between marginalized communities and affluent communities that enjoy well-established digital infrastructure. FWA allows extremely high-speed broadband where fiber connections can be too cost-prohibitive to install. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

EdTech 115

EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 115

MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

When the English proficiency assessment her program uses moved online several years ago, many of its corresponding course materials also went virtual, making her program’s transition to distance learning less difficult materials-wise. A Pew Research study from 2019 found that Latinx and Black adults in the U.S.

Tools 43

Tools eBook Digital Divide Broadband 43

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

AIR works with local communities to address this detriment through an integrated development programs that provide low-cost refurbished computers with relevant open source educational software, support and teacher training directed at schools and community centers especially in less privileged areas where the digital divide is at its greatest.

Conference 47

Conference Digital Citizenship Libraries Common Core 47

MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The digital divide is still big and complex. Lee at Brookings is working on a book about the digital divide, and she says it’s multidimensional. There’s housing: Lose your home and you lose your broadband connection. “That rural Internet divide is real. Then there’s infrastructure.

Digital Divide 28

Digital Divide Learning Laptops Broadband 28

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Even before the pandemic, more than 25 million Americans lacked access to broadband internet. The impetus was really to close that achievement gap and that digital divide.” The broadband needs to follow the kid,” Casey says. “We The state, of course, did not work alone.

Digital Divide 215

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Libraries 215

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2020

The digital divide is real. students do not have access to computers at home and 18% do not have home access to broadband internet.” Of course, nothing can replace being at school with her students, but she says, “We are able to do a lot of what we would be able to do in a normal session.”

Elementary 49

Elementary Accessibility Google Video 49

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Students are able to build resources in the education metaverse for their courses and for other teacher’s courses as well. When classrooms went online in 2020, the digital divide was amplified showing the gap between students who had, did not have, access to broadband internet and digital tools at home.

EdTech 68

EdTech Learning Industry Data 68

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

In Arizona, the House Education Committee introduced HB2421 , a bill allowing for schools to create distance learning courses. According to the proposal, a school may apply for a “reimbursement fee” to cover the cost of the course, to be collected from the school district or charter where students are enrolled.

Broadband 171

Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Policies 171

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With the ambitious goal of closing the digital divide, Congress approved and President Biden recently signed into law $65 billion for broadband infrastructure—the largest federal investment in history. Still, solving the digital divide will not in itself create digital equity.

Accessibility 185

Accessibility Digital Divide Broadband Tablets 185

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

Broadband 104

Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. And not everyone, of course, can get to schools to pick up meals in a region where public transport is scant. Their family does not have a computer or broadband internet at home, so the siblings have to take turns sharing their mom’s phone to access online lessons.

Broadband 145

Broadband Digital Divide Education Accessibility 145

MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

The newsletter keeps families informed of upcoming digital events and services, and keeps kids reading and learning with “play date at home” ideas, links to other online happenings for kids, and of course, curated book lists in several languages. Louis Public Library have moved completely online.

Libraries 68

Libraries Social Media Digital Badges Accessibility 68

MindShift

JULY 10, 2020

Scientists are updating their advice to reflect emerging research and the changing course of the pandemic. Nicol Turner Lee, an expert on educational technology and digital divides at the Brookings Institution, is in frequent consultation with districts around the country. Yet simple access is still a big problem.

Education 47

Education Survey Digital Divide Broadband 47

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Greeley offers a lens into how wide the digital divide 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.

Laptops 40

Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students | Ars Technica → The role of the library in the digital age has grown thanks to cloud tools.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Company Broadband 150

Doug Levin

APRIL 2, 2017

Tagged on: April 1, 2017 Libraries have become a broadband lifeline to the cloud for students | Ars Technica → The role of the library in the digital age has grown thanks to cloud tools.

EdTech 150

EdTech Data Company Broadband 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Via Education Week : “ FCC Delays, Denials Foil Rural Schools’ Broadband Plans.” Now he’s launching a new company – and of course it’s ed-tech. “Higher Education, Digital Divides , and a Balkanized Internet” by Bryan Alexander. Chatterbug is a language learning startup.

MOOC 48

MOOC Education Company Coursera 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The reporting often isolates education technology from other developments in the computer technology sector and tends to isolate education technology from education politics and policies more broadly (unless, of course, those policies dovetail with the political interests of ed-tech and ed-reform, which they often do).

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40