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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Technology Digital Divide Education Survey 527

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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Digital Divide Survey Education Classroom 360

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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Digital Divide Laptops Broadband Software 197

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Key points: Rapid AI adoption in well-resourced classrooms is deepening the digital divide How much AI is too much? Most parents know AI will be crucial to their children’s future For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Generative AI is transforming the nature of work in many fields.

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Professional Learning Digital Divide Accessibility Classroom 125

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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Technology Digital Divide Education Survey 370

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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Technology Digital Divide Education Survey 370

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Perhaps the most concerning survey result is that more than half of teachers (57 percent) say they do not feel prepared to facilitate remote and online learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

It’s time to close the digital divide and focus on making sure communities with broadband access have the skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the internet. It’s time to close the digital divide and focus on making sure communities with broadband access have the skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the internet.

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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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Digital Divide Laptops Smartphone Tablets 122

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Titled Mind the Gap: Closing the Digital Divide through affordability, access, and adoption , the report from Connected Nation (CN), with support from AT&T, provides new insights into why more than 30 million eligible households are not opting to access internet service at home or leverage the ACP.

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Digital Divide Broadband Social Media Survey 126

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

According to a survey from the University of the Potomac, 70 percent of students–and 77 percent of educators–say that online learning is better than traditional classroom learning. Satellite connectivity can bridge the digital divide The benefits of e-learning are substantial and will only increase as technologies improve.

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Digital Learning Digital Divide Broadband Learning 103

Neo LMS

JULY 29, 2021

The digital divide in accessing learning and teaching tools and large gaps in teacher’s access to digital training are other areas of concern. Surveys are an excellent option, as they help gauge the feeling and thoughts on various subjects. Read more: 8 Ways surveys help school leaders make better decisions.

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EdTech Education Industry Digital Divide 389

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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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 145

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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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 120

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

From a recent survey of participating schools conducted by our partner Westat, we learned that for schools already providing one-to-one devices for students and teachers, having prior experience integrating technology for powerful learning made the transition to remote learning smoother.

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Digital Learning How To Digital Divide Learning 361

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

COVID-19 did not create the digital divide for students, added Robin Lake, the panel moderator and the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), which is based out of the University of Washington and has been tracking school districts’ transitions to distance learning.

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Digital Divide Survey Learning Broadband 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Recent studies have shown that lower income children often spend more time with technology as it has become a type of “digital babysitter” for parents who have to be out of the house for extended periods of time.

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Digital Divide Digital Citizenship Policies Smartphone 161

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

However, the study also found that educators lack centralized resources and direct support necessary to successfully overcome barriers to the digital divide. 82 percent of families and 80 percent of educators surveyed feel strongly that high-speed Internet at home is extremely important to fulfilling learning outcomes.

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Digital Divide Broadband Survey Outcomes 86

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. As one of the researchers explained, you can’t fully understand how families are experiencing digital inequity if you only talk to those reachable through the internet.) That is students who are “under-connected.” That’s bad news.

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Accessibility Digital Divide Broadband Survey 202

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

That’s one of the key findings in a just-released Common Sense Media survey tracking media habits among children aged 0-8, which also found a narrowing but significant digital divide among lower-income households, and the first signs that virtual reality and internet-connected toys are finding their way into American homes.

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Survey Mobility Digital Divide Tablets 124

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide” is a follow up to a June analysis by Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense. Nonprofit Common Sense has released a new survey and companion analysis about the 0-8 year-old set.

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Broadband Report Video EdTech 207

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.

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Digital Divide Broadband EdTech Chromebook 257

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2020

Address the digital divide. As thousands of school districts across the country have rolled out remote learning, many have discovered that students have very different sets of resources when it comes to digital education tools. This raises the question: How exactly should schools invest in technology to keep up?

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Technology Digital Divide Education Digital Citizenship 317

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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Digital Divide Survey Training Meeting 195

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2017

For years policymakers have fretted about the “digital divide,” that poor students are less likely to have computers and high-speed internet at home than rich students. A new 2017 survey of technology use at home shows the gap in computer access is rapidly closing.

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Digital Divide Technology Survey Smartphone 76

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Baker’s experience was reflected in the results of a survey sent by BrightBytes, an education data company, from April to June 15. ISTE, EdSurge’s parent organization, helped design the survey questions.) The survey found that students report being less likely than teachers to have a consistently quiet place to work.

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Report Survey LMS Digital Divide 217

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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Digital Divide Social Media Chromebook Laptops 272

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. The coronavirus pandemic has changed education as we know it. Today, school leaders across the U.S.

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Digital Divide Survey Data EdTech 195

Digital Promise

JULY 25, 2017

This is leading to an emerging “second level digital divide” in US schools, fueled by differences in how technology is utilized to advance teaching and learning. To close this divide, we must fully support educators with the skills and tools they need to power up the learning environment.

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Digital Learning Learning Digital Divide Education 282

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

Preliminary results from a new survey of school districts confirm what many parents learned through the Zoom grapevine. But the amount of time was not the only difference, according to a recent survey: the type of instruction students received also diverged dramatically. “One Only 32 percent of high-poverty districts offered this. .

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Survey Digital Divide Laptops Data 122

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Did you know that according to a United States Department of Education survey, 94% of public school educators buy supplies with their own money ? That’s why neglecting this area can lead to a bigger digital divide among students. Helping with classroom supplies. This is undoubtedly a global trend — and a major problem.

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Education Digital Divide Laptops Trends 363

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

To get a sense of what the widespread closure of libraries could mean, and hear some creative ways libraries are reaching out digitally, we talked with Jessamyn West, an educational technologist who runs the librarian.net blog and is author of "Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide." I live in Orange County.

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Libraries Digital Divide Accessibility Survey 211

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Surveys show low SES schools tend to have less access to technology and teachers integrate devices like cell phones at far lower rates. Studies have shown that low SES students test scores go up 30% when they have access to mobile devices. Mostly due to increased engagement. Access is a basic right in our country.

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BYOD Digital Divide Mobility Survey 94

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing adoption of digital learning tools. Now adding to that list is one of the most thorough efforts—a new survey from Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund , a nonprofit that provides grants to education technology and innovation efforts.

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EdTech Survey Classroom Digital Divide 165

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Privacy and Student Data During these pressing circumstances, many educators are curating and sharing digital tools, strategies, and tips for remote teaching with their networks. The digital divide has been around as long as technology has, but the move to remote teaching has made it even more apparent.

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Digital Divide Social Media Microsoft Policies 218

EdTech Magazine

JULY 3, 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.

Digital Divide 150

Digital Divide Survey Training Meeting 150

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 17, 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. The coronavirus pandemic has changed education as we know it. Today, school leaders across the U.S.

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Digital Divide Survey Data EdTech 150