A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

Technology plays a huge role, which is why all efforts need to be made to eliminate the digital divide. If kids aren't engaged during the instructional component, then it is quite difficult to empower them later on, regardless of whether they are offline or online. The key, however, is balance.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In 43 states, that affordability gap accounts for the largest share of the digital divide, according to the EducationSuperHighway report. Policymakers have been talking about the digital divide for decades, but we’ve been closing it at a pace of about 1 percent a year,” Marwell said. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We have this huge digital divide that’s making it hard for [students] to get their education,” she said. David Silver, the director of education for the mayor’s office, said people talked about the digital divide, but there had never been enough energy to tackle it. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The post Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We have a divide, whether it’s a socioeconomic divide or an opportunity divide. It’s a digital divide too. Our elementary schools are almost one-to-one, with a 1-to-2 ratio of devices to students. Elementary students don’t take devices home with them because we don’t see the educational need.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide. Listen and Read.

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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. Powering their devices is a robust network and state-of-the-art cloud technology. The implementation was a total success. by Curtiss Strietelmeier.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

With digital learning likely to stretch into the fall due to COVID-19, how can we ensure every student has equitable access to powerful learning opportunities? The crisis has shone a harsh light on the digital divide in the United States, surfacing thoughtful debate and long-overdue discussion around the equity gap.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. There is another consideration that we must take into account when aiming to close the Digital Learning Gap. But what does that look like? I am a father of four.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How can we close this digital divide? According to the US Department of Education , there are seven ways to help close the digital divide. Implementing these seven areas to close the digital divide in our school has made a great impact on their learning, and has empowered our students to drive their own education.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Watch FOX19’s coverage of the Cincinnati rollout event: Jewel, a student at Sayler Park, served as a new correspondent for Verizon Innovative Learning in this video: Both schools in Glendale Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, rolled out earlier this month. Sine Elementary School held its own celebration a few days later. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While studying this digital divide, Skinner, an assistant professor of higher education and policy at the University of Florida, noticed that conversation around the issue is often presented as an urban-rural divide. These things being the disparities that we see in the visual and digital divide.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

For students across Texas and around the country, bridging the digital divide and providing reliable Internet connectivity that enables distance learning for students without Internet access are among the top priorities for state governments, school districts, teachers and parents alike. Many students across the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

For districts in need of additional technologies to make hybrid classrooms successful, here's a closer look at the new funding available and how to secure it: ESSER Funds and How to Use Them The original CARES Act included an education stabilization fund called Elementary and Secondary Education Emergency Relief (ESSER).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks. Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide. Listen and Read.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As stated in the white paper, “issues such as underfunding, understaffing, the digital divide and the impacts of the pandemic have set the stage for an ambitious revival.” The white paper, released under the brand ClassVR, Avantis’ award-winning all-in-one VR/AR headsets for schools, is available for download at [link].

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Throughout her educational journey, she has spanned various roles, including teaching elementary math, instructing web communications for career and technical education students and serving as an edtech consultant and speaker.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Travis Litman, the chief of staff and senior legal advisor for Jessica Rosenworcel, the FCC commissioner who coined the term “homework gap,” emphasized the growing urgency of addressing the digital divide. “It It matters at school, and it matters for our future competitiveness as a nation, when you think about it,” Litman said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2021

In my work as an elementary school teacher and principal, too often I saw teachers and administrators struggling to serve Black families. Distance learning dramatically closed the digital divide because these tools became a necessity to attend school. Both are benefits we can and should keep as we begin to reopen our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

You kow, we haven’t closed that digital divide quite yet. Using these types of things like EdPuzzle or PlayPosit , where you’re using video. And the partial flip or the in class flip. I’ve done that before. So we have to consider that, as to whether we can do a full flip or not.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As stated in the white paper, “issues such as underfunding, understaffing, the digital divide and the impacts of the pandemic have set the stage for an ambitious revival.” The white paper, released under the brand ClassVR, Avantis’ award-winning all-in-one VR/AR headsets for schools, is available for download at [link].

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Unfortunately, school closures have meant a step backward for many when it comes to the digital divide. There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. And she’s the norm, not the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

Second, we’ve taken ownership of the digital divide at the institutional level. We also understand that the digital divide isn’t just about access, but also know-how. Related: Recent racial incidents involving police are enraging students at our HBCU, and for their sake we need to open as soon as we possibly can.

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Education Superhighway

JANUARY 23, 2017

One year ago we launched the Massachusetts Digital Connections Initiative in partnership with Governor Baker’s Office, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), and MassIT. Collaborated with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (ESE), MassIT, and the Department of.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Social Institute conducted focus groups and surveys with over 100 elementary educators including administrators, counselors and classroom teachers in order to better understand the specific needs of fourth-grade students. Why should this be any different?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

Nearly half of low-income districts distributed paper packets of worksheets to families while more than three-fourths of wealthier school districts distributed everything digitally. This digital divide had enormous consequences for what instruction meant.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. Book reading is so important for kids,” he said.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

The partnership aims to bridge the digital divide in Pittsburg by offering parents refurbished computers free of charge.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Related: Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress? Marginalized students — Black, Native American and Latino students; students with disabilities; girls and nonbinary students — have unequal access to the classrooms, equipment and learning opportunities needed to build computational skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

Waterford.org also provides families with laptops and internet service, helping reduce the digital divide that would have prevented many low-income kids from logging on. Waterford.org will direct $9 million toward the project. Nearly two-thirds of Mississippi’s 5-year-olds were not ready to enter kindergarten this year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Rising fourth graders listen as a teacher reads a book at an elementary school summer program in Silver Spring, MD. While a pandemic shouldn’t be the impetus for giving students what they need, we can take advantage of the fact that the crisis is forcing districts to finally close the digital divide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students Second, district leadership can foster equity by focusing on policies behind the scenes that lead to better outcomes for all. One positive example: Chicago Public Schools this year renamed an elementary school after American abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Finally, they should build on the efforts to close digital divides during the pandemic to ensure that English learners can access and effectively use all the learning technologies they need to succeed at school. By and large, English learners aren’t thriving under distance learning.

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