eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

We have a one-to-one initiative in our high schools, and we’re looking to extend that opportunity to our middle and elementary schools as well. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive learning, on the other hand, means students passively receive information–for example, students might use a Chromebook to take a test or submit assignments in a learning management system. Active learning with technology involves the use of edtech tools and digital resources to discover, analyze, and apply learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just as the internet revolutionized learning, AI will be the next game-changer. Just like the internet, AI isn’t going anywhere–so let’s teach our kids to work with AI, not against it. AI is here to stay, and will be an important workforce skill–and many educators want to teach students to work with it, not against it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

During the Spring 2022 semester, Smith started most mornings with 30 high school students who were enrolled in CIS 194 Cloud Foundations, a course delivered by ASU. Carey School of Business , along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the National Education Equity Lab. Students nationwide participate in the ASU course.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

But for those without digital skills or access to a computer and an internet connection, it was a very different story. During the pandemic, the term ‘homework gap’ was used to describe children without reliable or any access to the internet and appropriate digital devices and who were unable to complete their assignments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

But for those without digital skills or access to a computer and an internet connection, it was a very different story. During the pandemic, the term ‘homework gap’ was used to describe children without reliable or any access to the internet and appropriate digital devices and who were unable to complete their assignments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Bridge the gap between learning and fun with Paper Live’s daily extracurricular classes hosted live by some of the most entertaining instructors on the internet. As always, students won’t have anything written for them or be given answers—Review Center provides rapid feedback on nearly any writing assignment.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Born in the era of VHS a generation before the Internet became mainstream, Blockbuster built its business catering to customers who liked being able to drop by one of its retail stores on a whim to pick out a new release or a well-known classic. Additionally, consider Village High School in Colorado Springs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Teaching students about critical thinking: Geetha Venugopal, a high school computer science teacher at the American International School in Chennai, India, likens teaching students about AI tools to teaching students how to use the internet responsibly.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A top Google leader said during Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference this summer that nearly 40 percent of young people—ages 18 to 24—are turning to visual-based social media platforms like TikTok or Instagram for their internet searches. Are they turning to TikTok for school research papers, for instance?

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

For many schools, Zoom, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams replaced traditional classroom settings, enabling virtual instruction. Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

A large screen display or desktop monitor ensures everyone in the group can see the material easily, and individual touch screens allow students to complete assignments at their own pace and submit them to the teacher electronically or for everyone else to see.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. hours before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Across the country, many schools and universities have had to shut down physical campuses and have rushed to roll out online learning. Now, educators are stitching together online offerings on the fly and rolling them out across entire schools and universities. Yet for many, education must go on. Prep smarter, not harder.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Learning has no temporal or geographic borders and is available wherever students and teachers find an Internet connection. This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. Break the class into two.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kajeet , a provider of IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 customers, announced the launch of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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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. . Schools are Dealing with a Widening Homework Gap. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 08/15/2019 - 13:15. Seventy percent of U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

It’s after dark, and Angel Banegas sits in the parking lot at Hatch Valley High School. Angel, a sophomore, has a homework assignment that’s due at midnight, and this is the only way he’s able to turn it in. Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

While most schools in the U.S. boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion. and Winterset, Iowa—school districts are going a step further.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

As a chemistry teacher at Wilton High School, located in the Gold Coast of Connecticut, Stephen Sobolewski is used to seeing motivated, high-achieving students every day. Strong parental involvement is common at the school and so is supplemental learning support in the form of private tutoring.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2016

That’s when it really started to impact the schools.” ” Schools in Grand Forks and nationwide have long warned students about the dangers of the Internet, emphasizing they keep personal information to themselves, but increasing use of social media has kept that message of safety evolving and expanding.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. How to help your students evolve from analog to digital writers Start with simple assignments that are an easy transition from what you and your students are already familiar with.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Younger students are often overlooked when it comes to these issues because they’re more associated with students in middle and high school. COVID-19 highlighted that the digital divide was not exclusive to rural areas, as many families in urban areas cannot afford internet connectivity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2021

Class Action Gradebook – This grade book app lets you import student data, import assignments, and maintain a journal. This app supports K-12 schools through colleges. Educators can log into their grade book from any computer with Internet access. Jupiter iO Gradebook – A grade book for educators from K-12 to college.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Attention spans are shorter for younger students than their older peers, who also need less parental involvement to complete assignments. Kansas says it expects K-1 students to work only 45 minutes per day, though high schoolers can shoulder about three hours’ worth of work—a popular time cap in state plans.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels. Sharing other people’s thoughts, jokes and artwork on the Internet is an everyday act. Whether or not the Internet is to blame, plagiarism seems to have become more socially acceptable across grade levels.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This reality—combined with recent survey findings that metropolitan K-12 school districts are experiencing a 1-to-5 percent decline in student enrollments—is sure to negatively affect student success, college preparedness and workforce development. This is especially true for students from lower-income families.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

in just over 10 months, she became a wife, mother and a high school graduate. Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. A student of mine in an accelerated program for new arrivals to the U.S., Access to computers and Wi-Fi at home was woefully inadequate.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Another is assigned seats. My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. While 77% of public schools have some type of cellphone regulation during classroom time, our high school does not.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Have a listen: Key Takeaways: Urgent Need for Computer Science Educators : There exists a significant shortage of computer science technology educators, particularly in middle schools, where STEM education is crucial. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. In the end.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Until March, students at MetWest High School in Oakland, Calif., Down in New Orleans, students at Rooted School were taking classes in school to get certified in technical skills like 3D printing, AutoCAD, and the Adobe Suite. Schools scrambled to get internet access for students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Wellness and Leadership in grade 5-9; high school students move on to Career Pathways, an internship course, seminars in the humanities and economics and dual credit opportunities. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group. Use of outside spaces wherever possible.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 2, 2018

Microsoft wants to outfit school buses in Hillman, Mich., with high-speed internet to help bridge the “homework gap” that many rural students face because of lack of internet access at home. IT pros, including those in K–12 schools, have been trying to address this digital disparity for years. It’s in the air.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

This is my third year teaching at William Penn High School in the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware. The position was more widely assigned out of necessity after state budget cuts, and currently, there is no law that explicitly states how many students may be enrolled in an inclusion class like mine.

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