Digital Tools & Learning
Thursday, December 10, 2020
December 2020
ALA releases free practitioners' guide, webinar series on adult media literacy education (American Library Association)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 14:13Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations: DOD Needs to Address Governance, Oversight Issues to Help Ensure Superiority (Government Accountability Office)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 12:51Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 12:16AT&T Fields DirecTV Offers Above $15 Billion Including Debt (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 12:09Daily Digest 12/10/2020
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/10/2020 - 12:08
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Daily Digest 12/10/2020 (Fiber to the Clubhouse)
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FTC and states sue Facebook as an illegal monopoly, setting stage for potential breakup
States Prioritized Broadband as COVID-19 Took Hold
COVID-19 forced government to leave behind its offices, schools to close their doors and citizens to isolate themselves at home. In doing so, the insidious disease more than underlined the digital haves and have-nots, as a large segment of the American population has had to grapple with the demands of telework, distance learning and accessing online services. State leaders, no matter their political affiliation, acknowledged the digital divide more than ever before in 2020, as evidenced by the sheer number of governors who talked about Internet access in their State of the State addresses.