Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These one-time gifts from billionaires and multinational corporations are welcomed by most schools, but they are not enough to close gaps in access to learning technologies nor ultimately a sustainable financing solution for technology infrastructure. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Tustin USD, for instance, he said “a couple of gigs of capacity” and numerous access points seemed suitable before the one-to-one rollout. “It Similar issues come into play when students and teachers are traveling and, say, trying to access the school’s platform in a hotel or via a Wi-Fi hotspot. “We More filters, please.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For students struggling to simply show up for school, this can translate to poor access to the basics. Housing is not always available, let alone stable access to food, a ride to and from school and the other conditions that have to be met for a student to really sink into learning, like internet access and a dedicated space for homework.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Then came the Internet, along with alternative news sources, social media, podcasts, blogs and the rest. A small percentage of audiophiles still opt for those recordings, but the majority of listeners have clearly opted for access, choice and control. By 1953, newspapers owned 40 percent of TV stations in the U.S. million to 28.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. Khan Academy reports that 25 percent of users in Mexico access their content on mobile devices. Yet the results revealed that devices, by themselves, have a limited impact, at best, on learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

At the turn of this century, adventurous faculty ventured out into cyberspace on their own, propelled by their own talent, accompanied merely by a laptop and internet access. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. Redefining Student Attendance And showing up means being able to access and engage with learning material. “As

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

suffer on the no-internet side of the digital divide , according to the Federal Communications Commission. The data provided earlier regarding the implications of COVID-19 on academic access suggests that more students will undoubtedly experience more learning gaps due to the disruption of the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This includes the provision of electronic access to the course syllabus, reading and viewing materials, assessments, the course calendar, grades, course evaluations, discussion boards, and other important course materials. One common form of student support technology provides round-the-clock remote access to academic tutors.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many educators are wondering about whether grading policies should be relaxed because of how stressed everyone is, and with so many students facing tough life circumstances of tech access. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

During the school year, attendance tracking was deemphasized to give students a chance to adjust to remote learning, and so that students without access to devices and internet connections were not marked absent. “We Half continued to grade student work, either through letter grades or a pass/fail system that may include incompletes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. Everything is online now,” Bey said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Its goal was to make access to algebra, a gateway to more advanced math classes, standardized and thus more equitable. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. These services include access to an in-house “technical team to help support our startups,” Martin adds. It wasn’t for a lack of effort from educators who wanted to tackle the problem.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When third grade students use the internet to research a topic, do they know how to do that safely and legally? A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. There’s no longer an option to hide students from the online world, what is considered by many parents a dangerous place their children should avoid. Try, fail, try again.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Share in comments what your secret techniques are: 6 Tips for Teaching Kids Coding If you were around when the internet first came out, you may have seen how coding was a career for specialized professionals. Troubleshooting failure is one of the biggest things coders focus on, but kids might find this leads to frustration.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The district was a CDW•G customer, so I worked with an account manager to access the district’s potential data security threats and develop a recovery plan. Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? I discussed with my team the previous efforts to develop a plan. Don’t count on luck.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

While we don’t claim to have completely cracked the code, focusing on this effort has made us better, more culturally inclusive teachers, and we believe our students will be better off in the long term because of sustained efforts to broaden access to CS and engineering. Allow your students to be real-world problem solvers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This holiday season, we’ve been thinking back to simpler times—long before Cybermonday was a thing or the Internet was in widespread use. This failure to evolve has come at the detriment of education providers and, more importantly, learners—who do not have access to the information or options that other shoppers enjoy.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.” She says she looks for whether information is being traded or stored, and what else the app can access.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

The district deployed 10-gigabit gateways and Cisco Meraki MR42 wireless access points (APs) at its schools, and is using advanced 24- and 48-port switches from HPE and Aruba. Including students’ phones, we were looking at 50 to 60 devices in a classroom, all trying to connect to an access point,” says Technology Director Tom Powers.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I had to learn how to modify my plans in case the student did not have good internet service, which was a common problem.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure. I had to learn how to modify my plans in case the student did not have good internet service, which was a common problem.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Isn't that a failure?” It's accessible in many different places. A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

The engaging video summaries of textbook material provide access to more than a thousand full-length college courses. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Students join with a free Study.com account that can be accessed with mobile apps (with the exception of proctored exams).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The popularity of online learning tools, web-based rich content such as video, interactive digital textbooks, e-books, online assessment and the increasing dependence on the internet for student and teacher learning is growing rapidly. Just access our application to get clean data. They had failures. They had a vision.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. Be accessible and supportive.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. Be accessible and supportive.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The district was a CDW•G customer, so I worked with an account manager to access the district’s potential data security threats and develop a recovery plan. Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? I discussed with my team the previous efforts to develop a plan. Don’t count on luck.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

It offers open enrollment--which provides much greater access for people still working--to with some of the world's most impressive schools including MIT, University of Chicago, University of Cape Town, and Harvard. Like an ad on the internet? And it is, without question, our biggest failure in nine years. I actually got an ad.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than two years ago, educators around the country began to engage in dialogue regarding the digital divide , as they recognized the reality that many students did not have access and connectivity as once believed. The phrase “information technology” represents access, or a lack thereof, to digital infrastructure.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the Internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the internet. Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Has this happened to you? Not a feeling veteran teachers like.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. ” typically starts with… It depends… Luckily, teaching it to K-8 students is simpler because most of them haven’t yet established the bad habits or misinformation we as adults operate under.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Have a discussion about privacy on the Internet—how rare it is in a world where people post everything they do onto Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. exact words and/or unique phrase. Digital privacy. Open Photo.

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