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The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 14, 2025
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Without Supplemental Pandemic Funding, Digital Divide Risks Increase
EdTech Magazine
APRIL 26, 2023
Lockdowns revealed that districts were stuck in a 19th century framework, resulting in deep digital divides and leaving some students struggling to complete school assignments outside of the classroom. Bringing today’s K–12 learning environments up to speed requires adequate, long-term funding.
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What Does the National Educational Technology Plan Say About the Digital Divides?
EdTech Magazine
MARCH 27, 2024
Over the past few years, schools and policymakers were focused on one digital divide in K–12 education: unequal access to technology. It defines not one but three digital divides. However, the Office of Educational Technology, a team within the U.S.
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The Importance of Securing School Bus Wi-Fi Networks
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
As schools work to improve connectivity and close the digital divide, school bus networks can fill the void left by unreliable internet at home for millions of students.
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A New Framework Helps Schools Tackle Digital Equity
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
Digital equity has been a primary topic of conversation in recent years, as K–12 schools contended with students who didn’t have access to the tools and skills they needed for online learning. RELATED: Educators wrestle with the real-life applications of…
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Schools Must Focus on Narrowing Digital Divides
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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K–12 Leaders Can Work with Local Governments to Address the Digital Divide
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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Pandemic Aid Helps Narrow Mississippi’s Digital Divide
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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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide
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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How Datacasting Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide
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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ISTELive 23: How Can Professional Development Narrow the Digital Divide?
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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Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide
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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Bridging the Digital Divide
EdTech Magazine
JULY 6, 2016
By Ryan Petersen Innovative schools are working to turn things around for underserved students.
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Maine’s Statewide Laptop Program Boosts Tech Access, but Digital Divide Persists
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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As Connectivity Improves, The Digital Divide Persists in Teacher Tech Preparation
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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Bridging the Connectivity Divide in K–12 School Districts
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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Roundtable: Is Digital Equity Attainable in K–12 Education?
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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K–12 Schools View Technology as a Guardrail for Good Digital Citizenship
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.,
A Final Frontier of the Digital Divide: Getting Wi-Fi to the Most Remote Areas
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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Why Connectivity Is Key to Inclusive Technology Options for Students
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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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World
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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CoSN2022: Technology Supports Accessible and Inclusive Learning
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.
CoSN2021: Technology in the Classroom Promotes Equity in Education
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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Google Champions Teacher Tech Training with New Program
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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What Do Low-Income Parents Think of Education Tech? [#Infographic]
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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Improved State Leadership and More Fiber Connectivity Mark the Future of School Internet
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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Q&A: Steve Langford on Equalizing Student Access to the Web and Tech
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. by Wylie Wong.
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Q&A: Tracy Smith on the Value of a Team Approach to Digital Equity
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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North Carolina’s Digital Equity Office Will Help Close Divide Facing K–12 Students
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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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 23, 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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The State of Educational Technology in a Post-Pandemic World
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 18, 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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Q&A: Kim Buryanek on Bringing Digital Equity into Classrooms
EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
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. It’s a digital divide too. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. by Wylie Wong.
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Summer Reading Online
Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 19, 2023
Thanks to this wide and varied collection of reading resources, no child should be consigned to the wrong side of the digital divide. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface. Books include Ramona Quimby, Nancy Drew, and a collection from National Geographic.
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Kajeet: Overcoming the K–12 Digital Divide with Education Broadband
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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Kajeet and Google Partner to Close the Homework Gap
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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CDW Tech Talk: Modernizing Educational Infrastructure
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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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
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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How K–12 IT Leaders Can Support Digital Equity
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
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.
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The IT Investment Priorities Shaping Today’s School Districts
EdTech Magazine
JULY 1, 2020
For many, the changes have either introduced new technology challenges or shined a spotlight on existing ones, from the digital divide to weak cybersecurity training. The coronavirus pandemic has forced school leaders to navigate a new normal in education defined by remote learning, hybrid classes and physically distanced classrooms.
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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
EdTech Magazine
JULY 19, 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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School’s Out: A COVID-19 Lesson
EdTech Magazine
JULY 19, 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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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate
EdTech Magazine
MAY 16, 2020
Educators across the country are quickly finding that existing achievement gaps among ELLs could be exacerbated by remote learning challenges — from the digital divide to the decline of face-to-face interactions between students and teachers.
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Leveraging Technology Can Help English Language Learners Graduate
EdTech Magazine
MAY 15, 2020
Educators across the country are quickly finding that existing achievement gaps among ELLs could be exacerbated by remote learning challenges — from the digital divide to the decline of face-to-face interactions between students and teachers.
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