March 1, 2021
Schools and districts everywhere quickly deployed student WiFi hotspot programs in 2020 to ensure students had access to distance learning. While these initiatives were not rolled out under ideal circ...
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Lost Learning Time and a Digital Divide Farmington Municipal Schools (FMS) is a large public school district in northern New Mexico, situated 30 miles from the Colorado border. The district serves 21 ...
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Digital Divide – Before COVID and How Libraries Help The Digital Divide affects approximately 16 million K-12 students in the U.S. (Common Sense Media 2020), leaving them without Internet access at ho...
Read More →August 31, 2020
If you’re looking for effective lesson plans, a new way to teach course content, online assessment tools, or just need some good old-fashioned teaching inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. Her...
Read More →August 25, 2020
School bus WiFi is not a new concept. Large-scale pilot projects to test the viability – and the benefits – of providing students with Internet access during their daily school commutes to and from sc...
Read More →August 13, 2020
The recent, large-scale shift from in-class to distance learning models – and other transformations in the way schools operate and in how students access information – are providing new opportunities ...
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Beekmantown Central School District serves over 2,000 students in rural upstate New York. The district is committed to supporting its students with the technology tools they need to succeed, including...
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Austin Independent School District in Austin, Texas educates over 80,000 K-12 students in one of the fastest-growing metroplex areas in the nation. Its district leaders are always looking for innovati...
Read More →April 21, 2020
As part of the government’s efforts to ease some of the burden brought on by the pandemic, the CARES Act funding bill was passed, which, in total, made approximately $30.75 billion available to provid...
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