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Accessibility Internet Mobile Devices 
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 8, 2016
And, ownership of smartphones — mobile devices with an internet connection — has tripled in recent years among young people. He looks at her Instagram account daily and monitors other internet activity, Mr. Baughman said. Kids can do a lot of damage on the internet,” he said. “I
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eSchool News
JULY 2, 2020
One of the key lessons learned in the shift to remote learning this spring was the need to make online instruction easily accessible to everyone.
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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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eSchool News
MAY 29, 2020
Given that they are the first generation to grow up with access to personal computers, the descriptor seemed apt at the time. Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power.
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eSchool News
OCTOBER 17, 2016
Smartphones, wearable technology, always-on mobile devices–now, school buses are following suit, offering wi-fi connectivity and real-time monitoring to extend learning and create safe environments.
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eSchool News
OCTOBER 12, 2016
But we realize that’s only a starting point, and we need to do more than just give every child a mobile device. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school. At school, students have access to high-speed internet service.
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eSchool News
JANUARY 14, 2021
Given that they are the first generation to grow up with access to personal computers, the descriptor seemed apt at the time. Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power.
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Today’s K-12 students are coming to the classrooms toting three or more mobile devices, from smartphones and laptops to tablets and smart watches. There is the Internet of Things, digital signage, and video being used to monitor cafeterias. Related: Spotty internet access for rural students limits achievement.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 19, 2017
kids live in a house with some form of a mobile device—and those smartphones and tablets are gobbling up a greater portion of kids' screen time than ever. In addition to that hour of TV, kids are spending about 48 minutes on a mobile device. A whopping 98 percent of U.S.
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eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
According to a recent Common Sense Media’s study , the percentage of children ages eight and under who’ve used a mobile device nearly doubled from 2011 to 2013, from 38 percent to 72 percent. And about two in five children under the age of two have used a mobile device.
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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.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
With smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, students have 24/7 access to news, information, and opinions—not all of which are well-informed or well-intentioned. Monitoring students’ internet access in school won’t help them once they leave the classroom. Toxic information.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
To meet this challenge, we needed to address the fact that digital deserts exist within neighboring communities, and students in schools across the county may not have equitable access to modern technology at home or at school. the deployment of mobile devices.
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eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Given that they are the first generation to grow up with access to personal computers, the descriptor seemed apt at the time. Not only are these students growing up with widespread access to computers and the internet, they are surrounded by smartphones and other mobile devices with impressive computing power.
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eSchool News
MAY 30, 2024
Graphs, charts, and other visual representations of data can make complex concepts more accessible and easier to understand. Findings revealed that using mobile devices to collect data outdoors enhanced students’ conceptual understanding more than using traditional means of data collection, like note taking and sketching.
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eSchool News
APRIL 21, 2015
In a BYOD world, managing access to popular social media sites has become critical. As K-12 organizations embrace a more mobile environment, security necessarily becomes a top priority in keeping students and networks safe, while providing access to educational tools and resources online. Allow, but monitor.
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eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
All state districts will have access to high-speed broadband connections. All 173 districts in Kentucky will have access to high-speed, fiber-based connectivity of more than 480 Megabits per second thanks to a partnership between the state department of education and AT&T.
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eSchool News
JULY 18, 2024
The critical importance of federal collaboration with schools Establishing partnerships between federal entities, cybersecurity experts, and the education sector offers numerous benefits, including enhanced information sharing, expanded training opportunities, and access to specialized resources.
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eSchool News
JANUARY 3, 2024
It involves far more than picking up the latest mobile device and downloading one or two educational apps. There are thousands of edtech options, as well as other applications, IoT devices, and infrastructure needs to consider. and 5GHz spectrums? Do we have the ability to monitor three frequency bands, nonstop?
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button. With itopia Labs, educators can provide anytime, anywhere, any device access to software applications that students commonly use for Career Technical Education (CTE) and various certification programs.
339 Dangerously Irrelevant
OCTOBER 5, 2015
It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. There are numerous reasons why we overblock the Internet.
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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Second is the need to create a 21 st century learning environment that is accessible for all students, encourages engagement and collaboration, and can be more easily tailored for different learning levels and needs. What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards.
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eSchool News
APRIL 22, 2021
Already using the Cablecast Community Media platform from Tightrope Media Systems to power the city’s educational and government access TV channels, CPS expanded the system’s role to provide hosting and on-demand delivery of online video for a variety of educational purposes. For more information, visit www.cablecast.tv
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EdTech Magazine
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
The increasing digitalization of education has put even more emphasis on internet access in K–12 schools , leading more school districts, nonprofits and government agencies to invest in programs and services to ensure each student is connected. . Characterized by bandwidth of 100Kbps per student and one wireless access point per 1.5
162 eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
According to Stillman and his 17 year-old son and co-author Jonah, Millennials can still remember a time before the internet. For education, this means heavy focus should be placed on incorporating not only digital materials in the classroom, but incorporating mobile devices in class and mobile strategies within the school or institution.
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Ensuring wi-fi access at home or on the school bus is a top priority for a district still planning its one-to-one. Put simply, asking a fifth-grade student to watch an instructional video before the next day’s flipped classroom science lesson will fall on deaf ears if the child doesn’t have access to the internet at home.
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
So maybe you thought internet connectivity to schools was a done deal. But when kids and their devices return to classrooms, school bandwidth will again be in the spotlight. On the home front, three organizations have released a “guidebook” to help schools and states close the internet access and device gap.
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eSchool News
AUGUST 10, 2016
the first nation to allocate a wide swath of airwaves to deliver super-fast 5G access. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to clear the way for mobile devices to send and receive signals over high-frequency spectrum that has had only limited uses until recent technological advances.
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eSchool News
MAY 3, 2017
Although wireless access technology has been in schools for several years, earlier-generation solutions have not been robust enough to keep pace with growing mobility requirements. 2 pencils and adopting online testing, schools have faster access to results. Standardized Testing : By putting down the No.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
MAY 19, 2023
Books can be read online or on most mobile devices. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them. Once you find a book, you access a scanned version (if available, say from Project Gutenberg) or purchase it at a linked bookstore. Access this catalog via the website.
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Kajeet, a provider of safe mobile student internet connectivity, has launched its 2016 campaign to highlight the “real action heroes” in school districts working to close the Homework Gap for their students. 1 million Homework Gap hours ‘rescued’ by Kajeet Customers.
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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. At Khan Academy, employees have been focusing their efforts on mobile devices in order to achieve one-to-one for students. In India, the rate is 40 percent.
eSchool News
APRIL 28, 2016
There’s a lot of innovation happening if you happen to be reasonably affluent — meaning you have regular access to an Internet-connected computer or mobile device, so you can get online and access Khan Academy.
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eSchool News
APRIL 22, 2015
They’ve always lived in a world with mobile devices and the Internet. One item in your toolkit should include Kurzweil 3000-firefly, literacy software that allows students to access any digital content with supports such as text-to-speech, talking definitions, digital highlighters, and writing tools.
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eSchool News
MAY 17, 2016
Today, More than 90 percent of families own a mobile device , and nine in ten (94 percent) families have some kind of internet access, even among families below the poverty level. Parents are spending nearly 3 hours a day scanning the internet —in line at the grocery store, waiting for soccer practice to end, etc.
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EdTech Magazine
AUGUST 15, 2019
Millions of students lack the ability to access the internet from home — a problem compounded by increasing expectations from educators that students do so to complete homework and research. . teachers also assigned internet-based homework last year, according to the Pew Research Center. eli.zimmerman_9856.
151 eSchool News
DECEMBER 16, 2016
workforce, but new forecasts indicate the demand for online language learning tools could increase thanks to the prevalence of mobile devices. The widespread penetration of smartphones and mobile devices and increased internet accessibility have boosted the online education system.
118 eSchool News
JULY 14, 2016
School districts in the United States spend billions of dollars each year to purchase technology for the classroom, yet the lack of technology and internet access in the nation’s public schools continues to be an issue. It is tax-deductible, and your formerly technology deprived classroom could become 1:1 with mobile devices.
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EdTech Magazine
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Students are more exposed to the internet than ever. Young children spend around seven hours every day in front of a screen , and most teenagers have access to a mobile device. There are tools available to serve as internet guardrails until a culture of digital literacy and responsible use sets in.
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Edsurge
MARCH 24, 2019
Long-term planning and investment in infrastructure for widespread and improved access to the internet and mobile devices is critical. Chile has more mobile cellular subscriptions (127 per 100 people) than the U.S. 122) and China (105), plus a higher percent of internet users (82 percent) compared to the U.S. (75)
eSchool News
MARCH 1, 2016
Then search engines arrived, completely revolutionizing the way students accessed and consumed information over the web. Students have access to more resources and information, allowing them to expand their learning potential beyond their immediate physical environment. This includes social networking tools that are easily accessible.
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eSchool News
JUNE 9, 2016
New whiteboarding software offers instant sharing to any student device, classroom management, and advanced interactivity building without an internet connection. Ormiboard Pro gives teachers and students the freedom to build lessons, activities, and interactive games for use in any classroom that has displays and/or mobile devices.
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Ask a Tech Teacher
JANUARY 15, 2024
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