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broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. Families are turning their smart speakers into virtual school bells to recreate familiar routines for students and help them stay on schedule with their onlinelearning.
broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. Families are turning their smart speakers into virtual school bells to recreate familiar routines for students and help them stay on schedule with their onlinelearning.
broadband households own smart speakers with these voice assistants. Today, they’re also being used for at-home learning. Families are turning their smart speakers into virtual school bells to recreate familiar routines for students and help them stay on schedule with their onlinelearning.
Many depend on accessing course resources and lessons seamlessly from online textbooks or other digital resources. Others find it enriching to participate in online chat and polling. or in disadvantaged countries abroad that lack robust broadband options depend on mobile devices to participate online.
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Congress Joint Economic Committee reported that nearly 12 million children lived in homes without a broadband connection, but the problem made few headlines. Back in 2017, the U.S. The following year, the Pew Research Center found that 15% of U.S. households with school-age children did not have a high-speed connection at home.
Congress Joint Economic Committee reported that nearly 12 million children lived in homes without a broadband connection, but the problem made few headlines. Back in 2017, the U.S. The following year, the Pew Research Center found that 15% of U.S. households with school-age children did not have a high-speed connection at home.
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State and federal agencies have advised schools to create onlinelearning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.
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million broadband connections, according to the FCC. Without adequate internet access and a working device at home, educators say, many students will continue to fall further behind in school, unable to do online homework or attend virtual classes when schools are disrupted by pandemic quarantines or natural disasters.
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