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Is a Backpack the Key to Closing the Homework Gap?

EdTech Magazine

Kajeet ’s ConnectEdNow campaign , announced in June, aims to make broadband access more affordable by providing students with portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices, a $200 mobile device subsidy and discounted data plans from Verizon , T-Mobile and other LTE providers. In March, a bipartisan group of U.S. by Erin Brereton.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Still, huge gaps exist in educational outcomes, high school graduation rates, college readiness and workforce advancements based on race, class, and geography. Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools.

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Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access

Edsurge

A separate Pew Research Center survey found that 17 percent of adults access the internet exclusively through smartphones. Before putting its emergency instruction on hold, Northshore had already distributed 4,000 devices and around 600 mobile hotspots to families.

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To Address the ‘Homework Gap,’ Is It Time to Revamp Federal Connectivity Programs?

Edsurge

As schools closed and classes moved online, educators rushed to improvise solutions for families without robust connections, setting up mobile Wi-Fi access points in school buses, sending home portable hot spots to those who needed it and more. It's been too long that we've kept these same policies in place,” Turner Lee told EdSurge.

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6 Easy ways to make e-learning fun

Neo LMS

E-learning, for some, can be boring if they just stick to the “rules”. You know like, not expanding the already-existing e-learning concepts and techniques instructors and educators already know. Smartphones and tablets in classrooms can be used to enhance collaboration between students. They’re virtually ubiquitous.

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. Source: “Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age Zero to Eight, 2020” Childrens’ access to mobile devices may be part of it.

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Part 2: Connectivity Resources to Address the Homework Gap

Education Superhighway

Mobile Internet Offers. The following providers are offering free or low-cost mobile service, flexible payment plans, and additional offers to support students and families. Mobile Internet Offers. This is the second post in a series that will continue to be updated as new offerings develop. GET IN TOUCH.

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