Tom Murray

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to a report released by the Pew Research Center, approximately 5 of the 29 million households with school-aged children lack access to high quality broadband internet while at home. From Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles, California, groups are working to provide high speed access in federally funded housing areas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Even after service providers launched discounts for broadband services during the pandemic — often targeting online learning — Black Americans across the South saw little change in their access to broadband services. But nowhere is the digital divide larger than in the Black rural South. Add the bill’s $14.25 Add the bill’s $14.25

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

From broadband to Wi-Fi, this funding bridges the digital divide, empowering students with equitable access to educational resources, fostering innovation, and ultimately, shaping a brighter future for students.” The E-rate program has allowed a whole new group to be able to connect.”

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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. This progress is “significant,” write the authors of a report that details the groups’ findings.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

We are thankful for those who broadcast the news and the broadband providers that have opened their networks, lifted data caps and fees, and promised not to discontinue service. Broadband providers are facing unprecedented pressure to deliver reliable connectivity as more of our economy shifts online. These are positive things.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. All subjects can include a team or group-working element, allowing pupils to discuss topics and solve problems together, helping them to become more confident and rounded people. Encourage Collaboration.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

million students who lack internet access, the nonprofit is also looking ahead to the future, when 1 Mbps per student becomes the new broadband benchmark. students with access to at least 100 kbps of broadband has increased from 4 million to 44.7 Last year, when 94 percent of districts had access to high-speed broadband and 6.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

A free tool from nonprofit EducationSuperHighway is intended to help district technology leaders compare broadband and connectivity information with other districts nearby and across the nation. Next page: District success stories and highlights of the new tool).

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Broadband E-rate Digital Learning Data 72

Neo LMS

AUGUST 17, 2021

don’t have a broadband connection and don’t own a laptop or computer. You discuss the theory a little together as a class, then individuals or groups are sent away to explore the practical applications of the theory. Read more: 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

Senate introduced a bill that would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to expand broadband access in communities that currently lack it. It’s time to close the digital divide and focus on making sure communities with broadband access have the skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the internet. Patty Murray (D-Wash.),

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Yet, even as the number of unconnected students declines, there is another group that, for years, has made virtually no headway. Of the 84 percent of low-income families who have computers and broadband internet access in their homes, a majority remain under-connected. That is students who are “under-connected.”

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Accessibility Digital Divide Broadband Survey 206

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. All subjects can include a team or group-working element, allowing pupils to discuss topics and solve problems together, helping them to become more confident and rounded people.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

Being in digital learning, we always talk about the importance of relationships and engagement,” says John Watson, the founder of the consultancy Evergreen Education Group, which started DLAC (pronounced dee-lac ) in 2019, making it one of the newer conferences on the circuit. “I scheduled for Oct. That would add to our costs quite a bit.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Last year, as reported by The Hechinger Report’s Tara García Mathewson, the nonprofit group pivoted to solving the homework gap. Most of these households, he said, “have infrastructure available at their home but they just can’t afford to sign up for a broadband service.” to tackle the broadband affordability gap. However, 28.2

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2020

Check with your local broadband provider to see if they have free access programs. Amazing Education Resources –sorted by topic and age group. Access community hotspots and open WiFi, often made available by local businesses who are eager to assist. How do I make online learning personal? San Diego Virtual Zoo.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

or in disadvantaged countries abroad that lack robust broadband options depend on mobile devices to participate online. This survey asked a broader group of students, while the Wiley study quizzed those in online programs only. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.” “This is critical.”

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 31, 2018

Organized by AMERIND Critical Infrastructure Manager Kimball Sekaquaptewa, this fiber build project will ultimately help Native American students in these Pueblos access high-speed broadband and gain essential skills through the power of technology. The Vision: A high-speed broadband network for pueblo schools and libraries.

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E-rate Broadband Libraries Accessibility 61

Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

For instance if you only have one laptop with broadband access that requires a teacher sign-in, then look at designing project-based learning modules with teams of students where online research is simply one component of a larger project.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2021

Although progress to bridge the divide has been significant, as many as 12 million K-12 students remained digitally underserved just before 2021, according to a report by Common Sense, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and the Southern Education Foundation.

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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.”.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2015

Novatel Wireless, Kajeet launch pilot project for educational broadband access.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For many focus group participants, ISPs or the federal government are not likely to be trusted. There are several demographic groups who can benefit from improved home internet service, such as low-income households who find it difficult to afford home internet service. In those instances, home internet service becomes a necessity.

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Digital Divide Broadband Social Media Survey 126

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

Only 60 percent of these families had access to computers or broadband internet at home. At our firm, 91 percent of investors are from underrepresented groups, and 59 percent of the founders we fund are from underrepresented groups. If inclusive edtech solutions are the end goal, then inclusive funds must be the start.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

‘Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. The groups argue that politicians and school officials have misplaced energy on issues like book bans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

One of the largest concerns, though, is equity — not just how we must fund solutions to address disparities in student access to digital devices and broadband Internet, but how students safely engage to drive learning. An equity lens led the team to evaluate technologies along five dimensions: Who are the groups affected by the technology?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

For instance, the percentage of Black people between the ages of 18 and 24 who enrolled in college increased to 37 percent from 31 percent, and to 36 percent from 22 percent for Latino people in that same age group. Related: OPINION: College in a pandemic is tough enough — without reliable broadband access, it’s nearly impossible.

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Accessibility Broadband Survey Digital Divide 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The report highlights states (Tennessee, Mississippi, Massachusetts) that have used state and federal relief funding to purchase devices and expand broadband connectivity. Synchronous learning is best for class discussion, small group work and social-emotional learning exercises. There is a place for both, the authors argue.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

percent, of households in the Black Rural South do not have broadband of at least 25 Mbps — the minimum standard for broadband internet. Evidence of this persistent struggle is the distressing fact that 32 school districts remain under federal desegregation orders. But it’s not just a Mississippi trend.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Guidelines 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Full disclosure: Entangled Solutions, where I am a principal consultant, helped prepare the report.)

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

She said a philanthropic group stepped up to loan 217 Wi-Fi hotspots to children in San Mateo County, but there are thousands more still in need. “We Hotspots are just a bandaid, she said, and San Mateo County is looking for ways to provide broadband internet county-wide. “I That mirrors Lorrie Owens’ experience in California.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Concerned that current technologies may not be closing equity gaps, a group of educators, researchers, developers and funders gathered over the course of this past year to consider how we might do better. These can include strategies such as addressing stereotype threat, and addressing costs that matter more to low-income groups.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That divide affected a significant share of college students in West Virginia, a state where officials say nearly 40 percent of rural residents don’t have broadband. After all, remote learning that relies on video calls and emails doesn’t work well for students who don’t have internet access. Thompson said.

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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. Proponents of game-based learning have good reason to be optimistic—but also cautious.

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