Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

Over the last year or so, remote learning has developed a reputation as a solution to education during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has a vital role in providing access to quality education on a more permanent basis. As an educator, you need to establish strategies that make certain the approach is right for every learner.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

And among those who do have access, not all have a broadband connection. If the coronavirus keeps schools shuttered into the fall, it may be better to start improving the country’s physical broadband infrastructure as a way to ensure lasting connectivity. But these are short-term solutions, acknowledges John Windhausen, Jr.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

We educators understand online learning, probably have taken classes this way, but we haven’t yet wrapped our brains around how to make it work in OUR classes. These aren’t comprehensive, just what I’ve heard as most of us are only one-two weeks into this challenging education opportunity. San Diego Virtual Zoo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls. They’re building their own countywide broadband network. This is an equity issue,” said Bredder. “If The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2019

California has recently increased state investment in school technology , focusing on better broadband connections and supporting further teaching of computer science. A study by the University of Phoenix found that almost two thirds of K-12 teachers regularly use laptops and computers in class.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

In 2015 they released a interesting report titled What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools 2.0 , that sought out 3100 educators to establish the state of technology integration across K12. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fund a series of research reports called Teachers Know Best. Starting a social media account.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

One big barrier to sustaining education via remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic has been students’ unequal access to advanced technology tools. But educators who want to make sure they reach every student don’t have to resort to mailing printed worksheets. The devices use cell signals to transmit Wi-Fi to laptops.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. One survey of educators found a jump from about two-thirds of middle and high school students having access to a school-issued device prior to the pandemic, to 90 percent a year later.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 21, 2016

It suggests that the vast majority of students have access to broadband capabilities. The goal of Obama’s ConnectED initiative is to equip every school in the country with high-speed broadband by 2018 at speeds greater than 100 Mbps. That leaves us with at least five more years of classrooms with insufficient broadband.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2020

The homework gap, characterized by the technological barriers and disparities students face when doing schoolwork at home, is a long-standing issue in education. It impacts millions of students nationwide, particularly black and Latino students and those who come from low-income families.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 19, 2020

The homework gap, characterized by the technological barriers and disparities students face when doing schoolwork at home, is a long-standing issue in education. It impacts millions of students nationwide, particularly black and Latino students and those who come from low-income families.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating on the Fly Among the earliest challenges CTOs faced was how to get thousands of laptops and tablets for students and staff?while It has been 12-hour days or more,” said Lorrie Owens, chief technology officer for the San Mateo County Office of Education in Redwood City, Calif. I'm not sure we can or even should.”

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Technology is transforming education, the change is as inevitable as that which the printing press brought to education. I personally believe that technology-enhanced education is and should be an organic process, where students themselves are the driving force in the adoption, development, deployment and design of ed-tech.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Findley educators and staff distribute food and supplies to families. To achieve equity and resume coursework for students, Dr. Adams told MIND that Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) began with a district-wide survey to determine each family’s need for computers or a wired home broadband connection. They know I’m here!”.

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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. households didn't have broadband access.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Miguel Brechner's keynote this morning focused on the CEIBAL one-laptop-per-child project in the schools of Uruguay. Uruguay is only a small South American country, about the size of Wales, and with a small population, and in the past it has not been particularly well known for its educational achievements. Unported License.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ In America ,” former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan often says, “ your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2024

It will also allow the FCC to gather and analyze data on which cybersecurity services and equipment would best help K-12 schools and libraries address growing cyber threats and attacks against their broadband networks. Additionally, the U.S.

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Neo LMS

JULY 12, 2018

A counterpoint to these figures, is also the finding that 70% of teachers assign homework requiring broadband access. Mobile Beacon is a mobile data provider established by the North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation (NACEPF), and provides high quality 4G data to nonprofits and schools, for as little as $10 a month.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

The study continues the research that ACT published six years ago, The Digital Divide and Educational Equity. Nearly all (96 percent) high school students reported having access to a smartphone at home, and 87 percent had access to a laptop computer. The report is based on a December 2023 survey of national ACT test registrants.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Personal hotspots, which allow students to connect a laptop or tablet with a cellular data connection, have been the most popular solution because they are relatively inexpensive and easy to use. An initial report , which is still being finalized, states that “lack of broadband access in Ector County is a crisis.” Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The threat of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is forcing educators across the country to think about what they’ll do if they have to close their schools for weeks or even months at a time. schools should coronavirus force education online. Higher Education. For some schools, that’s a small leap. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We billion Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program that helps 96 percent of schools get more affordable broadband.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 31, 2020

This shift to technology-mediated teaching and learning puts a spotlight on the homework gap -- the divide between students who have home broadband access and those who do not. PCs for People and Human IT are programs that can link students up with free or low-cost computers, tablets, and laptops. Leverage educational TV.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2017

How can we prepare a generation of students to adapt and evolve, learn (and un-learn), in an era where technological advances are transforming the world of work, traditional educational pathways are under fire—and the half-life of skills hovers around five years ? Recall that the first iPhones weren’t released until 2007.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Here’s some of what we learned about the challenges and opportunities in mobilizing new technologies to address educational equity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

What was once the premier, must-go conference in the education technology industry is now going away. Last week, the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced that its education technology group will no longer operate as its own division beginning July 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. We need to look at this like any other utility,” said Christopher Rush, the director of educational technology for the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

and Canada lack home broadband access, putting a staggering number of school-aged children at a serious learning disadvantage. The 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program is part of Kajeet’s mission to provide students opportunities to access online educational resources anytime, anywhere. An estimated 12 million students in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

That’s a problem because the data don’t lie: Two-thirds of all jobs and 80 percent of all “good” jobs (paying a median wage of $65,000) demand a postsecondary credential, according to research by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Having done farm work as a teen, Ayers agreed. To do this, Ayers spends about $4.7

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Key points: Schools must ensure greater access to the tech tools students and teachers need The digital divide still holds students back DEI in action: eSN Innovation Roundtable For more news on classroom equity, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Believing that all students have the same access to technology is a mistake.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. conflicts with China and Russia, I thought it useful to take a look at digital education in those two countries. While here in the U.S.,

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Vizor

MARCH 13, 2025

The UK Department for Education (DfE) has recently updated its guidance on “Meeting Digital and Technology Standards in Schools and Colleges.” Contracts Register: This register should include details of purchases and contracts related to software licences, subscriptions, broadband, and technology service providers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

The program has been met with skepticism from experts worried about excessive screen time for young children, but has been praised by local educators who say it has improved students’ school readiness. He also sees an upside to more children gaining access to technology devices like laptops. Subscribe today!

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