eSchool News

JULY 25, 2018

Despite a brighter spotlight on digital equity, gaps still remain, including the troubling and persistent homework gap–but a newly-relaunched digital equity toolkit aims to highlight the important work districts across the nation are taking to address equity differences.

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E-rate Strategy Accessibility Data 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

But a few pioneering districts have shown that it’s possible, and Albemarle County has joined a nascent trend of districts trying to build their own bridges across the digital divide. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) divides up the spectrum into allowable uses, such as for TV, radio, satellites and mobile data.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 104

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 3, 2014

Gestural computing for example, has been with us for a few years in the guise of games consoles such as the 360 Kinnect system manufactured by Microsoft. Will such a universal translation tool become available to all, or will the social gulfs be amplified because of a new digital divide? Unported License.

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Learning E-rate Digital Divide Microsoft 59

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Supported by the 2014 modernization of the federal government’s E-Rate program and state funding efforts, a majority of schools now meet the FCC’s short term connectivity goal of 100 Mbps/1000 students. For black youth, such criticisms about their technology use come not just from family members, but from educational researchers too.

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How To Broadband E-rate Digital Divide 52

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Lack of high-speed Internet prevents teachers and students from taking full advantage of the transformational power of digital learning and leaves millions of kids on the wrong side of the digital divide.

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Broadband Digital Divide E-rate Digital Learning 40

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. In Connecticut, for example, public schools as well as other organizations receive broadband services from the CEN. Included in the new report and accompanying website are case studies of success stories.

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Broadband Accessibility Mobility E-rate 56

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Our society is divided into two parts. We have some really great examples of billionaires and geniuses who do not have a college degree. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. A lot of problems are going around related to social-economic aspects, historical aspects, digital divide, etc.

How To 40

How To Education Secondary E-rate 40

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. 3:48 Great.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Lightspeed Systems

JUNE 15, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. 3:48 Great.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

IT Leaders & Decision Makers, Digital Learning and Instructional Technologists, IT Admins, Network Admins, IT Security, IT Infrastructure roles, School Counselors, Safety leaders, and SROs. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone.

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EdTech Learning Survey Data 52

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Fill out the form below to view this webinar Read the Transcript Overcoming Obstacles to Bridging the Digital Divide in K-12 Learning 0:21 Hi, everyone, welcome to our webinar, We’re going to give everyone about 30 more seconds to join us, and then we’ll dive in. Thank you. 0:58 Hello, welcome everyone. 3:48 Great.

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Survey Data Report E-rate 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This includes navigating the often politicized issues related to immunizations, the high student absence rate due to quarantines or parents wanting to keep their children home, and the negative impact the pandemic had on student and staff mental health. Some schools will dabble in flexible schedules, for example. billion by 2022.

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EdTech Data Classroom Accessibility 122

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). The key word in that headline isn’t “digital”; it’s “force.” Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump.

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. What will happen to encryption , for example? million in E-Rate rebates.).

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

He has championed investments in public education: For example, in March 2023, he signed a bill to make school meals free to all students in public schools. But the Biden administration has sought to require accreditors to create minimum standards on student outcomes such as graduation rates and licensure-exam pass rates.

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Education E-rate Policies Accessibility 135