August 21, 2020
As we are all fully aware, the global COVID pandemic has had a profound impact on the education landscape. And while colleges and universities worldwide were forced to make sweeping changes quickly la...
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IT will continue to play an increasingly important role in how teachers teach and how students learn. However, many schools and districts still struggle when it comes to understanding what IT tools an...
Read More →August 18, 2020
Developing strong student-teacher relationships is an important part of effective teaching and learning and has been shown to lead to better student outcomes. Unfortunately, it is a somewhat overlooke...
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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 ...
Read More →July 22, 2020
In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, schools struggled to cope with swift transition to distance learning, and students felt the brunt of it. Teachers transitioned to a remote learning...
Read More →June 22, 2020
As of June 8, 2020, the last day of the extended deadline, all 50 states as well as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia had applied for and received their allocation of the Go...
Read More →April 21, 2020
As schools across the country roll out their distance learning plans, many questions remain about how to execute them. Here are six of the most common experiences people have while rolling out distanc...
Read More →April 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted K-12 education in the United States, forcing schools across the country to close as district leaders prioritize the health and safety of their communi...
Read More →March 27, 2020
The American classroom isn’t what it used to be. In just a matter of years, digital learning and access to digital tools have revolutionized how students learn about the world. Computer games that off...
Read More →February 22, 2019
The Homework Gap. The Digital Divide. Whichever term you use, they both point to the same problem: students without Internet at home face additional barriers to completing their schoolwork, have lower...
Read More →January 22, 2019
Did you know Chromebooks made up 60 percent of all U.S. education shipments in 2017? To put that number in perspective, in 2012, Chromebooks made up less than a single percent of the education market,...
Read More →October 1, 2018
Educational technology—how we use it now, how we’ll use it in the future—is of paramount importance to any discussion of education. Teachers, students, administrators, and other key stakeholders in Ca...
Read More →July 17, 2018
Kajeet has officially opened our 2018 Homework Gap Grant! In 2018, Kajeet will be awarding 15 Homework Gap Grants to school districts in need of providing safe, filtered Internet solutions to connect ...
Read More →July 11, 2018
In recent years, there have been amazing strides to close the Homework Gap that exists between school-age students who have broadband Internet access and those who do not. Recent successes, however, d...
Read More →June 1, 2018
Deploying hundreds of devices can be overwhelming, and even more so if you don’t have a plan before the devices arrive on school grounds. But going 1:1 or even adding devices to a shared cart involves...
Read More →March 26, 2018
Each year, school districts roll out more tech to their students. With the additional online tools, comes new opportunities for learning and for risks. Risks that could be harmful for students and put...
Read More →March 15, 2018
Here’s how it goes: You get up in the morning and find the world outside your windows white with snow or shaking in hurricane-force winds. You turn on the television, check your phone for updates. You...
Read More →March 7, 2018
Student success and academic achievement are the goals for any state public education system. As California districts prepare and update their Local Control and Accountability Plans (LCAPs), it’s crit...
Read More →October 31, 2017
While 98 percent of U.S. kids live in a household that has some form of a mobile device, the Homework Gap is still scarily present in schools across the nation. According to a recent report on childre...
Read More →October 11, 2017
The State of Wisconsin approved funds to expand broadband Internet for students outside the classroom through the Information Technology Infrastructure Grant. The funding application is now live and a...
Read More →September 28, 2017
Eight million (or 7.9 million to be more exact). That is the number of U.S. high school students who participate in sports at their school, a number that has increased in the past 27 years, according ...
Read More →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...
Read More →July 5, 2017
It feels like the school year just ended. But in a short while, students will be returning to classrooms across the country to begin another. It’s not just summer that passes quickly, though; so do de...
Read More →June 8, 2017
Advanced Placement (AP) courses provide high school students a more challenging environment and an opportunity to take on college-level work, with the potential to earn college course credit. Accordin...
Read More →May 1, 2017
Ninety-four percent of families report having some kind of Internet connection, according to a survey by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. But what does the “some kind” of connection act...
Read More →April 20, 2017
In the sprint to the end of the school year, educators and students are pushing to finish strong—final tests, final grades, and a final push for success. Behind the scenes school staff members are str...
Read More →April 18, 2017
Five million households with school-age children do not have broadband access. This Pew Research Center statistic is frequently discussed in the education world and is something that impacts every sta...
Read More →March 16, 2017
The CoSN 2017 Annual Conference heads to the Windy City this year from April 3 to 6. While in Chicago, CoSN will be celebrating their 25th anniversary. This year’s theme is “Invent the Future;” someth...
Read More →October 25, 2016
Now that you have your team in place, it’s time to start planning. Creating a plan shouldn’t seem like a daunting process. In fact, having a plan in place with goals, objectives, action items, timelin...
Read More →October 4, 2016
Imagine, it’s late afternoon. You’re a school bus driver trying to navigate your vehicle along rural roads in a downpour. Behind you, students are yelling and climbing. There’s even a couple of kids w...
Read More →September 26, 2016
More than just Internet. Four simple words that, for us here at Kajeet, sum up our mission and our goals. These words are also a brand promise from us to you: that with our safe, mobile broadband acce...
Read More →September 23, 2016
When a student succeeds in school, success for one student may look differently than success for another. Making an ‘A’ on a history test, passing Chemistry class, being accepted at a university, rece...
Read More →August 19, 2016
The state of Minnesota is taking a big leap forward to help close the Homework Gap in their state. Paving the way for other states to follow their lead, the North Star State announced a grant intended...
Read More →April 4, 2016
As more districts adopt 1:1 programs and digital policies, many students will be left without Internet access at home. (Photo: Colorstock) Last week, the FCC voted to update the Lifeline program to in...
Read More →February 23, 2016
ENGLISH 106 VIA FLICKR CC 2.0 LICENSE An excerpt from the CoSN Digital Equity Toolkit. A digital equity solution that provides a student with precisely what he or she needs in order to complete homewo...
Read More →November 9, 2015
As more school districts launch 1:1 initiatives and invest in digital curricula, the issue of Internet access at home for students becomes more important than ever. Whether your teachers are assigning...
Read More →August 24, 2015
By Charles Askew, Kajeet Senior Director, Eastern Region As a former district and school administrator, I recognize the beginning of school as always being stressful--from getting the building(s) read...
Read More →June 8, 2015
Evidence shows that students can lose up to two months of math and reading progress during the “Summer Slide” and if the student is from a low-income household, the potential for more learning loss is...
Read More →June 3, 2015
Year-End Funds Can Be Used to Pilot Kajeet SmartSpot® Program With most school district’s fiscal year-end coming up on June 30th, there is still a window of opportunity left to make purchases for your...
Read More →April 10, 2015
Frustrated by the double-edged sword that is YouTube? As an educator, it can be a great resource for your students, filled with educational videos, how-to demonstrations and learning tutorials. But it...
Read More →December 8, 2014
Google's $199 Chromebook laptop has beat Apple's iPad as the leading supplier of educational devices to schools. According to a recent article in the Financial Times, 715,000 Chromebooks were shipped ...
Read More →October 22, 2014
Earlier this month, the U.S. Secretary of Education put the full weight of Washington on the trail of states, schools, and districts that are not providing adequate educational resources to every stud...
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