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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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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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 publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. ricky.ribeiro.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. The transition to this learning environment also revealed new insights on the state of technology in education. school administrators and teachers.

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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

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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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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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

School districts can improve digital equity through investments, partnerships with businesses and national grants, says Steve Langford, CIO of Beaverton School District in Oregon. Langford recently talked with EdTech about the challenges of the digital divide and practical ways to overcome them. He should know.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Parkland School District in Pennsylvania, like many of the nation’s public school systems, is seeing increases in student poverty rates and English language proficiency — trends that could make any existing digital divides worse. But Parkland school leaders are taking proactive steps to improve digital equity. by Wylie Wong.

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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. The transition to this learning environment also revealed new insights on the state of technology in education. school administrators and teachers.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The “education system is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and making effective edtech investments will be critical in the year ahead,” according to a recent report by Promethean. The transition to this learning environment also revealed new insights on the state of technology in education. school administrators and teachers.

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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

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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Buryanek recently talked with EdTech about how her district is tackling the challenge of digital equity one teacher and one mobile hotspot at a time. EDTECH: What challenges related to digital equity are you facing in your district? We have a divide, whether it’s a socioeconomic divide or an opportunity divide.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Despite the promise of digital technologies, not all communities around the world have the access they need. One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. We measure success in two ways.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez A survey offers an inside look at whether the digital divide expands into opinions.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez While the digital divide has lessened, there is more work to be done to connect students to learning opportunities.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the ongoing digital divide in the United States, in cities and in rural America. Students and their families, impacted by the necessary shift to remote learning, perhaps felt the repercussions of the divide most directly.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! The implementation was a total success.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2015

Stevens, Ph.D. Kajeet's modular, wireless solution is a refreshing alternative to overcoming K-12 infrastructure woes.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge. No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

After all, they’ve had a lot to figure out — from finding ways to bridge the digital divide to ensuring student security and privacy online. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn how K–12 schools are bringing elective classes online. Another major challenge is maintaining student attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 22, 2022

In June, Kajeet and Google announced their partnership to deploy a private 5G network with the goal of closing the digital divide for K–12 students. This isn’t Kajeet’s first effort to close the digital divide. Its Homework Gap Grant Program has provided connectivity solutions to schools and libraries since 2017.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

WATCH MORE: Emily Bell shares how Georgia's Fulton County Schools navigated the digital divide. In this excerpt from a recent CDW Tech Talk webcast, learn how technology has enabled remote learning and kept students and faculty connected under difficult circumstances.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 16, 2020

Educators had to quickly adopt creative, and sometimes unfamiliar, ways of teaching and working from a distance, while existing issues like income inequality and the digital divide were pushed further into the spotlight. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn how a streamlined technology department can save districts money.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

Before the pandemic, we knew there was a digital divide in America. The need to close the divide can no longer be ignored because students of all ages are locked out from school – not just because of the virus itself, but from lack of an internet connection at home. Enter COVID-19.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 26, 2020

Bridging the digital divide is more critical than ever. When schools across the country made the quick shift to emergency remote learning during the pandemic, many found that it exposed deficits and exacerbated existing challenges around internet access, especially in rural and high-poverty areas.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2020

After all, they’ve had a lot to figure out — from finding ways to bridge the digital divide to ensuring student security and privacy online. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn how K–12 schools are bringing elective classes online. Another major challenge is maintaining student attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

After all, they’ve had a lot to figure out — from finding ways to bridge the digital divide to ensuring student security and privacy online. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn how K–12 schools are bringing elective classes online. Another major challenge is maintaining student attendance.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2020

After all, they’ve had a lot to figure out — from finding ways to bridge the digital divide to ensuring student security and privacy online. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn how K–12 schools are bringing elective classes online. Another major challenge is maintaining student attendance.

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