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Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up
Connected Nation finds that 47 percent of US school districts—6,132, to be exact, representing about one-third of public K-12 students—meet the 1 Mbps/student standard. Still, that means about two-thirds of students lack what Connected Nation calls “scalable broadband” in schools. The broadband gap isn’t only a problem for remote learning. “Early childhood” videos on YouTube nearly all have advertising. And as video dominates online instruction, more educators need easy-to-use resources for video creation.
COVID-19 Is Pushing School Tech Departments to Their Limits — and Then Some (EdSurge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/10/2020 - 13:40Op-ed: Moving a Summer Program to the Virtual World — While Closing the Digital Divide (EdSurge)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/19/2020 - 09:57Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall (EdSurge)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/19/2020 - 09:11Here’s How Colleges Should Help Close the Digital Divide in the COVID-Era
Here are two recommendations for how higher education institutions can help close the digital divide:
Op-Ed: COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning (EdSurge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 13:56COVID-19 Has Widened the ‘Homework Gap’ Into a Full-Fledged Learning Gap
In a matter of days, the “homework gap” widened to a full-fledged learning gap, as computers and internet connections soared to the top of the list of required school supplies and districts made hasty plans to roll out virtual learning. What that disparity has revealed about the education inequities in our country, according to Common Sense Media’s CEO Jim Steyer, is “a national disgrace.” “Millions and millions of kids … don’t even have the basic essentials of what they need to be students during this time,” Steyer said.
Op-Ed: Closing the Communication Chasm for Schools and Families (EdSurge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 05/29/2020 - 17:26What the FCC Should Do Now to Support America and Our Learners
Here are five ideas about what the Federal Communications Commission can do, right now, to keep us as a country moving forward: