eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

And a majority of students–70 percent–are concerned about having enough money to purchase the technology needed for college. There is also a concerning new data point: Nearly three quarters of students are worried they won’t be able to pay for the technology they need for college.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. As the years pass, the gap between Jennifer’s and Maria’s access to technology widens: Jennifer has everything she needs at her fingertips, while Maria does not. I think we all know the answer.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

kids live in a house with some form of a mobile device—and those smartphones and tablets are gobbling up a greater portion of kids' screen time than ever. But time with tablets and smartphones is triple what it was in 2013. A whopping 98 percent of U.S. That need is still astronomical and cuts across all demographics.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But through learning how to code, she believes that experience offers an even more important lesson to today’s education and technology companies: don’t forget about senior citizens. Today’s education technology products overwhelmingly target young people. Her experience with digital projects dates back decades. Just do it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. While 92 percent of adults from households earning $75,000 or more per year say they have broadband internet at home, just 56 percent of adults from households earning below $30,000 say the same.

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Georgia Test Prep

JANUARY 25, 2021

Poetic musings aside, we do need to talk about a serious problem that many kids born in the digital age may face: technology addiction. How does Technology Addiction happen? There is such a thing as too much of a good thing, and this applies to technology as well. Harmful effects of Technology Addiction.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

During the pandemic, many districts have addressed this gap by handing out personal hotspot devices (similar to routers) or smartphones, or provided mobile Wi-Fi on school buses to kids lacking internet. An initial report , which is still being finalized, states that “lack of broadband access in Ector County is a crisis.”

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

In the absence of in-person instruction, educators are being forced to rely on technology more heavily than ever. households with less than $30,000 in income have broadband at home. But a staggering number of families lack access to the digital tools required for learning at home.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. But ReadyRosie’s growth also comes as a result of growing smartphone use among lower-income families.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. That’s arguably the case for U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

But what if we took that to its logical conclusion and also made it the goal of our education technology predictions? We’d need to consider not just what technology products students are exposed to in the classroom, but also across the rest of their lives. First is the evolving nature of education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Shawn Caine, who teaches technology at Panguitch High School in Garfield County, Utah, lets students who don’t have adequate home internet service get online in her classroom before and after school. And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In an emergency, when timely and effective communications are vital, first responders may have trouble connecting via their smartphones, hand-held radios, or other devices. As the name suggests, this is a technology that boosts the coverage of public safety communications coverage within buildings. The implications are clear.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Lower-income teens are less likely (51 percent) than higher-income teens (64 percent) to use a computer for homework every day, and on average lower-income teens spend less time than higher-income teens using computers for homework (34 vs. 55 minutes per day) and more time using smartphones to get assignments done (21 vs. 12 minutes per day).

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

These rural districts face the four significant challenges: broadband access, funding, people, and understanding the “why.” Broadband access has become more critical in the last year and a half than ever before. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

For the past several years the Horizon Report has listed mobile learning, in one form or another, as an emerging educational technology (e.g. Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

NOVA Science Studio, which will engage students remotely during the 2021 school year, includes workshops on storytelling, interviewing, filming, and editing, among other areas, and focuses on using devices like smartphones as the primary tool for shooting and editing. About NOVA. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Tech Enablers. Looking Forward.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

The current crisis has highlighted the disparity between students with and without equitable access to technology, especially in rural schools. One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Teachers have also been doubly challenged with the quarantine.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. Families who don’t have access to the internet at home, due to a lack of hardware or broadband availability, often use their phones to access websites.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. Families who don’t have access to the internet at home, due to a lack of hardware or broadband availability, often use their phones to access websites.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

But even during the crisis, they dug in, designing creative digital learning experiences, using technology for enhanced remote engagement, and leveraging local phenomena and investigations for students and their families to do at home. All students, Krehbiel emphasized, should have universal access to broadband internet. Technology.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies. To begin this exploration, it's important to first review the most recent research on student access to broadband and devices in the home. Approximately 70 percent of teachers assign homework that requires access to broadband. How Big Is the Problem?

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 27, 2017

A digital divide is a gap between different demographics and regions in the world that have access to technology and those who doesn’t. According to the Pew Research Center, 75% of American homes have internet and broadband access. How do we assist those students who don’t have internet access to obtain the proper access to broadband?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2015

This is the chasm between the homes with and those without access to quality broadband. In both rural and urban settings, many students are obtaining their wi-fi signals using smartphones as hotspots at a rate that isn’t sustainable for their cellular plans. It’s one we can no longer ignore. It’s a complex and layered issue.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2016

CFISD is building a 100G network with the vision of providing students and staff ‘Anytime, Anywhere’ broadband access so they can easily interact and collaborate with peers and engage in distance learning initiatives. ”

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 20, 2017

The technologies are already available. Teaches technological skills (video recording, audio recording, editing, publishing). Disadvantages: Challenges for students without access to needed technologies, including video recorders (how many don’t have smartphones?) and broadband.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 12, 2015

As learning practices and technology tools change, mobile learning itself will continue to evolve. It can be actuated via a smartphone or iPad , laptop or in-person, but access is constant–which in turn shifts a unique burden to learn on the shoulders of the student. Mobile Learning is about self-actuated personalization.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

When you’re a kid whose main point of access to the net is your mom’s smartphone, and your only broadband is at your school or library, it’s tough to make it through a series of Kahn Academy videos or a Udacity course on your own to become an awesome coder.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 18, 2016

Technology for me in the 1980s was a dodgy microfiche in the university library and then my trusty and often dusty overhead projector in my classroom. They are far more used to technology, having grown up with computers and mobile phones. Or if you like, Generation Technology. I’m a Gen X baby. It’s not called a web for nothing.

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MindShift

AUGUST 10, 2021

While especially helpful for her students with less digital experience, it also seemed to lessen the technology fatigue of her students overall. are more likely to have smartphones than traditional computers or broadband internet at home than white adults. “I feel like their stress factor lowers.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

When you’re a kid whose main point of access to the net is your mom’s smartphone, and your only broadband is at your school or library, it’s tough to make it through a series of Kahn Academy videos or a Udacity course on your own to become an awesome coder.

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MindShift

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. Families who don’t have access to the internet at home, due to a lack of hardware or broadband availability, often use their phones to access websites.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 5, 2020

They say the heart of the job right now is getting students connected with school and keeping them that way — both technologically and even more importantly, emotionally. We don’t really know, and that’s a problem, says Nicol Turner Lee, director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”. The population in this region around Pittsburgh is surging, thanks to a thriving medical and technology economy and a natural gas-fracking boom. We started being invited into classrooms,” said Owens. “We

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

When discussing equity, there are so many convenient handles–race, gender, language, poverty, access to technology, but there may be a larger view that we’re missing when we do so. For every student, there is commonness and there is difference; there is what’s shared (i.e., student needing knowledge), and there is distinction (e.g.,

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