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How Much Data Does a Student Need?

August 15, 2017

To close the Homework Gap, just how much data does a student need? This is not a simple question, but it is an important one that is addressed in the CoSN Digital Equity Toolkit. The Data Usage Answer...

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Bus Wi-Fi: Saving Time for Your Students

June 22, 2017

The average K-12 student spends 48.6 minutes per day riding the school bus. With 180 school days in an academic year, that means on average a student spends 146 hours per year on the bus. To put that ...

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Improve Bus Behavior with WiFi

May 8, 2017

School buses have always had issues with misbehaving students. Picture it. You have 50 or 60 students from various grade levels in a confined area, before or after school, with little adult supervisio...

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GREEN BAY: DISTRICT SIMPLIFIES MOBILE BROADBAND IMPLEMENTATION TO CLOSE HOMEWORK GAP

March 24, 2017

The Green Bay Area Public School District, like many across the country, is focused on how to successfully integrate technology into their teaching process. With 41 schools and more than 21,000 studen...

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Do Cell Phones Belong in Elementary Schools?

January 9, 2017

It’s hard to believe that, not long ago, cell phones were a rare sight. Now, they’re everywhere—including in our elementary schools. And their appearance in the small hands of the nation’s youngest st...

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10 Programs Tech-Savvy Districts Are Launching This Fall

August 16, 2016

3D printers. Virtual reality. Tele-teaching. If it sounds like a vision of the future, it’s not. This technology is already here. Across the country, more and more school districts are employing groun...

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Study: Tablet Use, Including Home Broadband, Improved Test Scores

January 25, 2016

Project Tomorrow and Kajeet announced the results from the Making Learning Mobile study, a three-year-long study, whose final results show that tablet usage increased students’ test scores. The teache...

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Report: What, When, How Wi-Fi is Used on School Buses

November 24, 2015

According to the American School Bus Council, 26 million students ride a school bus each year. Considering even students with a relatively short, 20-minute commute can spend hundreds of hours on the s...

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Report: What, When, How WiFi is Used on School Buses

November 24, 2015

According to the American School Bus Council, 26 million students ride a school bus each year. Considering even students with a relatively short, 20-minute commute can spend hundreds of hours on the s...

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