EdTech Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

Concern about digital equity in schools hit its zenith during the pandemic. The plan delves deeply into shrinking three types of digital inequity: the digital use divide, the digital design divide and the digital access divide. However, its importance certainly has not declined.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2025

Some topics we discuss are: How AI-powered personalized learning is transforming education Strategies for career exploration and workforce readiness Best practices for cybersecurity and digital safety Solutions for bridging the digital divide and ensuring equitable access How to balance technology with human-centric teaching approaches Download Now (..)

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 7, 2021

The digital divide is an unrelenting problem in K–12 districts across the country. While there is no easy solution to digital inequity, there is help if K–12 leaders know where to look.

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Digital Promise

JULY 28, 2022

The post How Mississippi Stakeholders Collaborated to Narrow the Digital Divide appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2021

Closing the digital divide became even more important last year as students without reliable internet access at home struggled to connect to their classes. Courses such as “Moving Forward with Hybrid Learning” and “Creating Digitally Inclusive and Accessible Learning Experiences” are aligned with Digital Promise micro-credentials.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 23, 2021

During Black History Month, Aberdeen High School Principal Dana Bullard invited some former students to speak to her current students at the Mississippi school about their careers. One former student, a young Black man who now works at Netflix in California, emphasized that technology skills are important for virtually every job.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Tackling the Digital Divide with Device Deployment in Kansas City. When schools closed in mid-March, Kansas City was confronted by the region’s deep digital divide. The post How Community Coalitions Are Bridging the Digital Divide appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

In a time when every child seems to have a favorite YouTube personality and a Minecraft account, it’s easy to forget that not every family has readily available internet access. Indeed, according to the U.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

One of the most robust conversations that came out of ISTELive 23 in Philadelphia was how critical professional development (PD) is to reducing the digital use divide.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2022

“The broadband funds in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provide a historic opportunity to close the digital divide for our learners, families, and communities. The post Path to Digital Equity: Why We Need to Address the Digital Divide with Solutions Around Adoption appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Last week we discussed the digital divide , and today I thought we could explore some practical strategies that teachers, as individuals, can adopt in an effort to bridge the digital divide in their classrooms. 6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide. Starting a social media account.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 6, 2016

By Ryan Petersen Innovative schools are working to turn things around for underserved students.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom computers can’t boost student outcomes if educators don’t know how to use them innovatively.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Annual survey finds that low-income school districts are still lagging behind their peers.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide. I want to say thank you for your accomplishments and your efforts to close the digital divide,” Bulnes told Allen. ricky.ribeiro. Tue, 05/29/2018 - 23:37.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Despite widespread efforts to bridge the digital divide through one-to-one device programs, connectivity challenges continue to leave millions of students and teachers trapped in the slow lane of the information superhighway. DISCOVER: Pandemic aid helps narrow Mississippi's digital divide.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million. today, “the digital divide predated the coronavirus pandemic and will persist beyond it if stakeholders do not seize the moment,” they write. Affecting nearly one-third of K-12 students in the U.S. Money is an issue.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Blair Levin, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro , formerly of the Federal Communications Commission, says that the government has effectively connected schools to what they need for internet access, leaving homes the next frontier of the digital divide in education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

And one, Mississippi, has made important strides in closing the digital divide through a pandemic response plan that took each school district’s unique needs and challenges into account. It is worth remembering that the digital divide is not an all or nothing phenomenon.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Families throughout the nation faced digital inequities before the pandemic became a factor in the spring of 2020. However, with the shift to remote learning, the conversation around the digital divide became impossible to ignore.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2020

One key problem prevalent in many low-socioeconomic communities around the nation—like San Antonio, which now has the highest poverty rate of the country's 25 largest metro areas —is the digital divide. Together we can close the gap on the digital divide.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When leaders of Ector County Independent School District learned in March that 39 percent of their students lacked reliable broadband access at home, they went to work on finding a solution. It was crucial that students be able to connect to remote instruction. The district secured funding from philanthropies.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

is on a mission to bridge the digital divide and train a generation to become good digital citizens. Jefferson County Public Schools, a one-to-one district in the diverse city of Louisville, Ky.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

But administrators realized that the problem they were trying to treat—the digital divide—was less like a mild cut and more like a deep wound. And patching the gash between the technology haves and have-nots might require a more substantial remedy than a band-aid.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

This is not to say that the digital divide has ceased to be a problem. Schools and communities that previously couldn’t afford to acquire devices and internet access received grants and other financial aid to do so. Many communities are still working toward their acquisition of devices and internet access.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2024

Digital Promise’s new Digital Equity Framework provides guidance for bridging the digital divides for states and K-12 education systems.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In a way, it’s a shift to recognize another aspect of the digital divide in America: the quality divide when it comes to implementation of edtech, which arises because all this new technology isn’t necessarily being put to the best use in classrooms. It’s a mindset shift we need in education right now,” Jones says.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As the report notes: “Roadblocks like lack of technologies, students without access to at-home internet connectivity and teachers desperately needing more professional training are widening the digital divide. Administrators have been hard-pressed to provide both short-term solutions and forward-thinking guidance.”.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 13, 2022

With a focus on closing the digital divide, school districts are now working toward making the provided technology equitable. If they can’t use the technology in a way that is meaningful and impactful, they won’t benefit from having the devices, and districts can’t close the digital divide.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2017

By Wendy McMahon The partnership between Google, Digital Promise and EdTechTeam seeks to solve the digital divide around professional development.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

In a keynote address at this year’s annual CoSN conference, Ken Shelton spoke about the digital divide and why access to technology is critical to equality in education. 24 press release. In his session, “…

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techlearning

JULY 15, 2022

Despite progress closing the digital divide, millions of students remain on the wrong side of it. Advocates say the solution is more funding that includes digital knowledge education.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Yet, in Chicago and cities nationwide, Multi-Dwelling Units (MDUs) such as apartment buildings and public housing often remain at the center of the digital divide. Recognizing this critical gap, Chicago’s Digital Equity Council prioritized connecting MDUs in its latest Neighborhood Broadband Request for Proposals (RFP).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

“Universal connectivity is more than just internet access–it’s about addressing the digital divide to ensure every student is prepared for post-secondary success,” said Julia Fallon, executive director at SETDA. ” The report provides specific policy recommendations to close the digital divide in education.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

One of the more glaring issues was the vast digital divide that still exists in many places, especially the United States. Every day I see new articles highlighting the millions of dollars; in some cases, spent to either begin to close or eradicate the digital divide. All of these efforts are to be commended.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Although some gains in high school students’ technological device and internet access have occurred since ACT first investigated the digital divide in 2018, device and internet access of students with lower family incomes is lagging that of students with higher family incomes,” said Jeff Schiel, Ph.D,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

The digital divide has long been a simmering problem facing millions of students that took a global pandemic to bring to a boil. Despite incremental progress made to narrow the digital divide, students’ success today hinges on having access to a connected device and high-speed internet in the classroom and at home.

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