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• A look at what digital & mobile learning are • Digital learning resources & apps at the district, school, and classroom levels • Company profiles and resources • Essential components of a mobile classroom • Best practices and examples • Closing achievement gaps with digital learning • Marketplace update

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We are excited to bring you the latest in the eSchool News K-12 Guides series. eSchool News K-12 Guides are full of resources, tips, trends, and insights from industry experts on a variety of topics that are essential to the classroom, school, and district. The November Guide, the eSchool News K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Guide, offers expert insight on the reasons digital and mobile learning support students’ academic achievement and build the skills they’ll carry with them into the global economy. In the guide, we take a look at the various factors present in successful digital and mobile learning initiatives. Plus, we’re giving you tips to incorporate more digital resources into your instruction. Have you dreamed of using more digital tools and resources in your district’s classrooms, but don’t know where to look for those resources? In the eSchool News K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Guide, we’ve compiled a list of some of the most popular digital learning apps and websites. Do you want educators throughout your district to understand just how much digital equity impacts students? We explore this issue, which Thank you to our sponsors is vital to digital and mobile learning. for making this guide possible. We highlight examples of how real educators built their mobile learning must-have We appreciate your support! lists, and we’ve included a story highlighting the various ways that the federal E-rate program is essential in helping school IT leaders create robust and capable school infrastructure to support the highest quality digital learning initiatives. You also can find a complete list of digital and mobile learning partners and companies in the guide. We’ll release a new guide at the beginning of each month, and we’ll feature content focused around each guide’s topic throughout the month. Stay tuned for eSchool News K-12 Guides on STEM learning and makerspaces, physical and network safety, online/blended learning, and more. Each guide also offers a comprehensive index of all the companies involved in that month’s specific focus area. We hope you’ll share this eSchool News K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Guide with your colleagues and use it to learn a bit more about how every educator can fit digital and mobile learning into their classroom.

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Marketplace Update Trending News The digital learning challenge that still vexes schools . . .4 5 new strategies for digital content ...... 12 Trending News Digital learning is helping this school close achievement gaps ...... 13 10 awesome digital and mobile learning resources . . .6 When the digital divide hits at school and at home . . .14 3 amazing findings about digital and mobile learning . . .7 Disrupting students’ opportunity gaps will hinge 3 essentials in a mobile learning environment ...... 8 on networks ...... 15 6 ways the E-rate supports digital and mobile learning . .9 Company Profiles ...... 17 5 strategies to tackle the homework gap ...... 10 About eSchool Media ...... 25 10 things to know about digital learning ...... 11 eSchool News Guide Calendar ...... 25

© eSchool Media Inc., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. 3 K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Marketplace Update Guides Marketplace Update The digital learning challenge that still vexes schools Finding real value in edtech is something schools continue to struggle with—here’s why.

BY DENNIS PIERCE Here’s a closer look at what the sur- The latest Speak Up survey findings vey reveals about the state of digital from Project Tomorrow reveal how far learning in U.S. schools, where it falls schools have come in making digital short — and how one forward-thinking learning available to every student — and school system is achieving success. how far they still have to go to realize the What the survey shows full value of their edtech investment. Although the survey indicates that stu- Nearly three-fifths of administrators dents in a majority of schools are now who took part in last year’s Speak Up 6-12 say they use Google tools on a given a mobile device to use in class, there survey (57 percent) say their students weekly basis and six in 10 report taking are mixed signals about the value this are given a mobile device for learning in weekly online assessments, students use adds to their learning. For instance, when school, and 38 percent say students are other types of digital resources less fre- asked to identify the benefits of digital allowed to take their device home with quently. Only one in five middle school learning for students, 86 percent of teach- them. The type of device varies by students uses digital primary-source doc- ers and 93 percent of principals cited grade level, the survey indicates, with uments, animations, simulations, or virtu- greater engagement as the most signifi- the youngest students more likely to use al labs as part of his or her regular school- cant outcome, instead of stronger indica- a tablet and older students more likely work — and a majority of students (58 tors of success such as deeper learning or to use a Chromebook. percent) say they rarely or never access more sophisticated student work. In fact, the survey not only shows a these online tools. Julie Evans, CEO of Project sharp rise in mobile learning over the “These types of digital content repre- Tomorrow, believes schools aren’t see- last five years; it also reveals how sent learning activities that cannot be eas- ing enough value from digital learning Chromebooks have replaced laptops as ily replicated without the use of technol- because there are too few transforma- the main device of choice for middle ogy. For example, students can potential- tional uses of technology happening in and high schools. ly learn about the Civil War’s impact on schools today. In 2014, 50 percent of middle the families of both Union and “Too often, classroom technology schoolers said their primary access to Confederate soldiers by reading their implementations aim to mirror or repli- technology was in a computer lab. Now, textbook. But a more in-depth and rele- cate traditional learning modalities, just 25 percent of students in grades 6-8 vant learning experience can be gained by such as using a mobile device to take say their edtech access depends on a accessing primary-source photographs notes or take a class poll,” Evans writes visit to the library or computer lab. and letters written by soldiers to their in a briefing paper about the survey Sixty-four percent say they use a families through the National Archives results. “It’s difficult to demonstrate Chromebook in class — a 138-percent website,” Evans observes. value or justify a return on investment growth in student Chromebook use in “Similarly, it’s becoming increasing- with these substitution-type activities.” just four years, Project Tomorrow says. ly challenging for schools to provide In schools where digital learning is With classroom access to a mobile students with authentic science lab most successful, she says, leaders have device becoming more prevalent, “we experiences. Virtual labs, animations, clearly articulated instructional goals and would expect to see frequent usage by and simulations provide a unique oppor- are focused on using digital devices to sup- students of various online resources,” tunity for students to experience real- port personalized learning, student inquiry, Evans writes. “However, that’s not nec- world experiments and bring meaning creativity and collaboration, and other uses essarily the case.” to abstract concepts that cannot be repli- of technology that are more mature. While 83 percent of students in grades cated in the natural world.”

Moving beyond engagement normal to see kids using a blend of learn- implemented the project. “It’s very When asked how technology bene- ing approaches,” Just says. “There is a lot powerful for students to see their ideas fits student learning, educators most less lecturing and more student creation come to life,” Wilson says. often mention increased student and collaboration. Students are in charge The key to realizing value in digital engagement as the primary value. of their own learning and are working on learning is to provide support structures Although research links student engage- inquiry-driven tasks. We think the four Cs that enable teachers and students to use ment with improved outcomes, teachers — communication, collaboration, cre- technology in truly transformational and administrators should be focusing ativity, and critical thinking — are a good ways. Wayne Township employs full- instead on how technology can lead to model for what we hope to see.” time instructional coaches and gives a deeper learning, Evans says. Success in action stipend to exemplary teachers (dubbed For instance, nearly seven in 10 district the “iTeam”) who help their peers come administrators cite changes in student Audrey Taylor, a social studies up with innovative uses of technology engagement as the most effective metric teacher at Wayne Township’s Lynhurst to support student learning. Professional for evaluating their edtech initiatives. Far 7th and 8th Grade Center, uses technol- development focuses not just on how to fewer administrators identify better work ogy to share multiple perspectives with use edtech tools but on developing (30 percent), depth of student collabora- her students that they can’t get from a teachers’ capacity to transform their tion (38 percent), or students’ skill devel- textbook alone. practice. opment (38 percent) as the most meaning- “We are living in a time when every- At the school level, Wilson has fos- ful measures of digital learning’s value. thing you’d care to know is Googleable. tered a culture of risk-taking among fac- “The effective integration of digital I’ve shifted my focus to teaching my ulty and has changed his hiring prac- tools, content, and resources within students to think critically about the tices to create a staff of edtech innova- instruction requires teachers to re-engi- information they have access to. We are tors. Above all, he gives teachers shared neer existing lessons and rethink current more investigative,” she says. planning time to co-create lessons. instructional practices to take advantage “For a recent lesson on the Boston Tea “The best thing administrators can of the unique functionalities afforded by Party, we looked at four representations do is give teachers the gift of time,” technology,” Evans notes. “Quite can- of the event: a cartoon, a comic, a History Taylor says. “When there is profession- didly, this is challenging and time-con- Channel miniseries, and their text. al development that introduces technol- suming work.” Students had to analyze the similarities ogy, include time for teachers to work #'('$&(&# (" $&!"&%!$(" (%( $( '(&'"#'!$(&#'( &(%(& '( #' (&#'!'( $ !%'$$ % "(''%' &(&#"&( &!%'$(&'# %%( '(& '(%!(&'"#'!$(&%(%! &#(&#%$'(&%%$(" (&%( !'(%&(#%(&#'(%('$&( &'!"&'(&#%$'(&%%$( &%(&#' ! '$$% $(#' ( '(&#'(& '(&%(" (&#%$'('$$% $ ( !'("%!($% "($& '$ &'"#'!( " '(% $# $( #!$&(&#(" (&#(!"'(' &'!

One district that has made strides in and differences, decide why those differ- with those tools and to figure out how reinventing instruction is the ences existed, and determine what infor- they could best integrate those tools into Metropolitan School District of Wayne mation was correct. I am able to make their lessons. Then, give them time to Township, Indiana. In rolling out a dig- their learning more meaningful as they plan those lessons.” ital learning initiative for the district, become proficient at 21st-century skills.” “When I’m visiting classrooms, I’m Chief Technology Officer Pete Just Lynhurst Principal Dan Wilson says looking to see: How has instruction actu- began by involving all stakeholders in multidisciplinary teams of teachers ally changed as a result of giving students creating a vision for using technology to work together to plan inquiry-based a mobile device?” Just says. “That’s the improve teaching and learning. projects for students to collaborate on. true test of whether we’re seeing a return From this effort, a Digital Learning In one such project, students developed on our edtech investment.” Blueprint emerged. The blueprint defines proposals for building something on what effective teaching and learning with campus that would enhance their learn- The former editor of eSchool News technology should look like in Wayne ing. The winning proposal included a and eCampus News, Dennis Pierce is Township — and what specific outcomes plan to renovate an old concession stand now a freelance writer who has been the district is looking for. to turn it into an outdoor classroom, and covering education and technology for “When you walk into classrooms, it’s the high school building trades class more than 20 years.

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BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services

Digital and mobile learning can invigorate a dull classroom, boosting student engagement and motivating stu - dents to immerse themselves in learn - ing. As with any tech-based instruction, the technology is just a tool for a high - ly-qualified teacher to use to augment a lesson and link learning to real life. We’ve gathered a handful of popular digital and mobile learning apps, web - sites, and resources for you or your team of educators to try in the class - room. Some are for student use, others are management tools, but they’re all worth a look. 1. The Relay Platform, from Lightspeed Systems, offers cloud-based or YouTube, or download and store provide instruction or create assess - filtering; delegated management with them in Dropbox or Google Drive. ments. In 1:1 or small group settings, easy app controls; monitoring to keep 5. TED-Ed Lessons: Teachers can students input drawings, text, images, or learning as the focus; protection tools to build a lesson around any TED-Ed audio in response to teacher-created flag inappropriate content or cyberbully - Animation, TED Talk, or YouTube material. Teachers provide individual - ing; and a function to analyze and drive video. Students can create talks on their ized, real-time feedback or allow stu - app ROI, adoption, and compliance. own or in groups, and educators can dents to give each other anonymous 2. Kajeet's solutions aim to tackle the even give their own TED-style talks. feedback. Teachers can see who needs homework gap with the Kajeet 6. Coggle: Coggle is an online tool help and how students are progressing SmartSpot, a filtered Wi-Fi hotspot; the for creating and sharing mindmaps and through the assignment. Kajeet SmartBus offering school bus Wi- flow charts. Whether you’re taking 9. Photomath: This app doesn’t Fi; and the Kajeet Chromebook, offering notes, brainstorming, planning, or doing replace learning and knowing mathe - a complete student connectivity solution. something awesomely creative, it is matical processes, but it can be a big 3. DIY.org: This DIY community super simple to visualize your ideas help during homework when students offers a huge library of hands-on proj - with Coggle. Share with as many stu - and parents are left scratching their ects, how-to videos, and an awesome dents or colleagues as you like. Changes heads. Photomath reads and solves kid community. Projects offer step-by- you make will show up instantly in their mathematical problems instantly by step instructions, and a variety of cours - browser, wherever they are in the world. using the camera of a mobile device. es are targeted to different skill levels. 7. Dotstorming: Dotstorming is A Students can also check their completed 4. Educreations: Record your voice real-time group brainstorming and deci - work for any printed or handwritten and iPad screen to create dynamic video sion making app. Dotstorming takes the problems. lessons that students and colleagues can process of dot voting online to allow 10. Khan Academy: With Khan access any time, as needed. Post your groups of people to collaborate on a Academy, teachers can identify gaps in videos to Educreations and share them topic. their students’ understanding, tailor with anyone. You can even share videos 8. Classkick: Teachers add drawings, instruction, and meet the needs of every via email, Facebook, Twitter, Edmodo text, images, audio, links, and videos to student.

6 © eSchool Media Inc., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Guides K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Trending News 3 amazing findings about digital and mobile learning The classroom connectivity gap is closed, and more students than ever have access to robust digital and mobile learning

BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services Some of the report’s major findings 3. State leaders are using the federal include: E-rate to close classroom connectivity In order to support digital and mobile 1. 46.3 million students and 2.8 mil- gaps and help districts upgrade internet learning, students in K-12 classrooms lion teachers–and 99 percent of access. These leaders can maintain a need access to sufficient bandwidth, schools–are connected to scalable fiber strong E-rate program, along with scalable and affordable broadband networks. As new fiber-optic connec- helping school districts take advantage infrastructure, and robust Wi-Fi. tions have become available to more of budgets and deals designed to help And for the most part, they have it. than 22,000 schools, those schools have them reach 1 Mbps, in an effort to Educators and school IT leaders the broadband infrastructure in place to avoid a broadband “bottleneck” that have worked tirelessly toward this end, meet the FCC’s 1 Mbps per student could prevent schools from access the and according to the nonprofit internet access standard. connectivity that enables digital and EducationSuperHighway, 99 percent 2. Ninety-four percent of schools mobile learning. of school districts across the nation are report digital and mobile learning in at The nonprofit will wind down its now on scalable fiber connections with least half of their classrooms. efforts as its overarching goals are met, a “clear path” to supplying enough bandwidth for digital and mobile learning in every classroom. The 2019 State of the States report is the latest in an annual look at school connectivity, taking stock of school districts’ progress toward meeting the digital and mobile learning needs of students and teachers. Eighty-seven percent of teachers say they use digital and mobile learning in their classroom several times per week, and three-quarters of U.S. schools now have at least one device per students, notes EducationSuperHighway CEO Evan Marwell in the report’s introduction. More than 70 percent of educators say high-speed internet connections and Wi-Fi networks are “significantly “However, this is not the finish line; it’s Marwell also notes in the report. improving” teaching and learning. a starting point. Once digital learning “Now, it is time for EducationSuper And, as Marwell notes, this is just enters a school, bandwidth demand con- Highway to sunset. In August 2020, we the beginning–85 percent of teachers, tinues to rise,” according to the report. complete our mission, but not before we principals, and district leaders support “Students and teachers find more ways spend one more year helping as many of the increased use of digital and mobile to enhance the learning experience with the last one percent of schools and stu- learning in their schools. technology, and other teachers begin dents get connected to high-speed “This means that state leaders and using it in their classrooms. Ultimately, broadband. As we close our doors, we school districts will need to continue to digital learning becomes fully integrat- do so knowing that we have helped upgrade classroom internet access so ed into teaching and learning through- open the digital door to educational that bandwidth is never a bottleneck to out the school as teachers leverage tech- opportunities for millions of students.” learning,” he adds. nology in every classroom, every day.”

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BY GARY LAMBERT, With wi-fi on the buses, drivers imme- KENDRA LEROY, diately reported that students were AND MICHELLE ZAVALETA engaged and working on assignments dur- Michelle Zavaleta: Uniting the Gary Lambert: Wi-fi at home ing their commutes instead of getting into classroom with an audio system and on the bus trouble. In fact, when it comes to discipline issues, the bus often represents one of the So many pieces are needed to com- Beekmantown (NY) Central School most challenging environments for many plete the puzzle of a mobile learning District, a rural district of 2,070 students, schools, but we have decreased those environment. Every school has its own was on a mission to be the most progres- behavior incidents by 70 percent. unique challenges, and technology sive educational institution in the area. The success is in the numbers. In the plays the important role of helping When funds were earmarked for school past three years, our attendance rates address those by supporting educators wi-fi, we wanted to harness the internet to have increased, along with our assess- to continue providing superior lessons. provide a world-class education for every ment scores in grades 3 through 8. At Tulare (CA) City School District in student in this district. School is a not a place that students 2011, we had a cluster of deaf and hard- Our initiative to address digital equi- have to go; it’s where they want to go. of-hearing students for the first time in ty issues began with the rollout of We believe the digital learning initiative one class. Faced with the challenge of Kajeet SmartSpots for students who has been a foundation for their success. providing the necessary assistance to stu- needed home Internet access. In the four Kendra LeRoy: Connecting to dents who couldn’t hear their teachers, years since we had started our 1:1 pro- today’s smartphone-toting parents we implemented Lightspeed’s Redcat gram, the number of students without classroom audio system. After complet- Internet has dropped from 30 percent to I work in a group of four teachers ing training courses, educators quickly 10 percent because parents saw the ben- who collaborate to teach the different noticed the advantages of using audio in efit for their kids and made it a priority subjects in 5th grade. To keep us all their spaces. to get connected. For that 10 percent connected, we use the parent-teacher We saw the benefits in our class- who still don’t have Internet, we had an app Bloomz to post announcements and rooms with our hard-of-hearing stu- easy-to-use solution. updates to students’ parents individually dents, but through the years, we’ve also Because robust filtering and reporting or as a group. seen the benefits for students who are features come standard with Kajeet, Parents really appreciate the up-to- not hard-of-hearing. In today’s mobile we’re now able to ensure that students are date posts about what is happening at learning classrooms, where students are using wi-fi for its intended educational school on the Bloomz newsfeed, which moving around the room rather than sit- purpose. While we have a responsibility they can access right on their smart- ting at desks, children are able to hear to be CIPA-compliant, we also are able to phones. They also like having the calen- anywhere in the classroom and have set notifications for when students violate dar to remind them about dress-up days, displayed an increase in attention span. our acceptable use policy by going to report cards, and meetings. Having students working on their sites they shouldn’t. We can then deter- We’ve used the conference schedul- devices in different areas of the room mine when it’s necessary to intervene. ing aspect for three years in our grade can create distracting background noise, To address both digital access and level to set up time slots for confer- but an audio system allows teachers to the district’s commitment to keeping ences. Parents get instant notifications be heard—without raising their voice. students connected to school, we started that conference times are available, as looking at wi-fi on buses. Some stu- well as the option to cancel or resched- Gary Lambert is the director of 21st dents spend up to an hour on the bus ule if something arises. This simplifies Century Learning at Beekmantown getting to and from school each day, and our life as teachers because it saves Central School District. Follow him on school-sponsored athletic events often written notes and phone calls. The best Twitter @Dir21KLearning. Kendra LeRoy require a commute of an hour-and-a part about a parent-teacher communica- is a 5th-grade math teacher in Southern half-each way. Putting wi-fi on buses tion tool is the fact that we know when Indiana. Michelle Zavaleta is the director was a tangible way to solve a problem a parent has viewed our messages, so of psychological services in special educa- and provide mobile learning opportuni- we can be aware that he or she has seen tion at Tulare City School District. To con- ties for students. the subject at hand. tact her, email [email protected].

8 © eSchool Media Inc., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. Guides K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Trending News 6 ways the E-rate supports digital and mobile learning School internet access is critical to digital learning—here's the latest look at how schools are able to connect and mee t bandwidth demands

BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services more district money [on] projects. It 5. More applicants say school inter- would be difficult for our district to fund net should extend to school buses–in Education leaders expect school everything needed without the benefit of 2018’s survey, 58 percent of applicants internet needs to increase over the next E-rate,” says comment number 41. believed school bus internet should several years, highlighting the need for School internet remains critical to qualify for E-rate support. This year, 66 increased bandwidth and resources to students’ success, both academically percent of applicants say the same. “Our support growing digital learning and in building the schools they’ll need community would greatly benefit from demands on school networks. to succeed in college and the workforce. access to Wi-Fi on buses and school- The ninth annual E-Rate Trends Here are 6 key findings about digital provided internet at their homes. This Report from Funds For Learning shows learning and school internet needs: would allow for a greater flexibility in that the federal E-rate program is still 1. Digital learning continues to the use of online resources and blended critical in establishing broadband con- explode. 88 percent of applicants expect learning. Extending the classroom to nectivity for schools and libraries. The bandwidth needs of schools and libraries anywhere our students have a device is 2014 E-rate update will expire in 2020, to increase in the next three years. key to success in a 21st century learning and stakeholders are urged to advocate 2. Barriers to internet still exist. 82 environment,” according to comment for the program in order to ensure it can percent of applicants agree that insuffi- number 274. continue to serve schools and libraries and help close connectivity gaps. “Every year, we read through hun- dreds of responses that showcase how E- rate is mission critical for schools and libraries,” says John Harrington, CEO of Funds For Learning. “It’s vital to identify what’s working and what improvements must be made, and to deliver that feedback directly to the FCC.” The survey also includes open-ended responses from applicants. “[E-rate] is a tremendous program that is necessary for the instructional benefit of all students and educators across the United States. Without it, cient internet access to home of students 6. E-rate funding is considered critical these individuals would suffer or library patrons is significant issue in to school internet connectivity goals, but immensely and potentially cause our their community. not all applicants feel they can depend on nation a huge disadvantage when it 3. If permitted to share school internet the funding each year. Ninety-four per- comes to 21st century skills,” according access off-campus at no additional cost to cent say E-rate is vital, but only 84 per- to comment number 218. the E-rate program, 83 percent of respond- cent say their organization can depend on “As a small rural school district, our ing applicants say they would do so. the funding each year. options for internet, fiber, etc. are limit- 4. Wi-Fi remains mission-critical. 88 Participation in this year’s report was ed. E-rate helps us tremendously with percent of applicants feel Wi-Fi is a record high, with 1,763 applicants our internet, building-to-building con- extremely important in fulfilling their from every state and territory complet- nectivity, and network equipment that mission. 79 percent of applicants in FY18 ing the survey, representing about 8 per- are necessary in today’s education envi- cited the same need, showing a consistent cent of all school and library applicants ronment. Since state funded programs… trend in Wi-Fi access to support digital nationwide. no longer exist, districts must spend learning in schools and libraries.

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BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services community, family, and other resource building, library, and community center. centers where students can access wi-fi Additionally, because a high percentage Despite a brighter spotlight on digital to complete their homework. of students participate in athletics and equity, gaps still remain, including the 2. Promote low-cost broadband other extra-curricular activities involv- troubling and persistent homework gap– offerings. In Chattanooga, Tenn., the ing long bus rides, the district partnered but a newly-relaunched digital equity city’s public utility internet provider, with its wireless provider to install a toolkit aims to highlight the important EPB, provides subscribers with up to cost-effective bus wi-fi solution. work districts across the nation are taking gigabit speeds. In 2015, EPB began 5. Build private LTE networks. to address equity differences. offering the NetBridge Student Albemarle County (VA) Public Schools The 2014 Erate modernization Discount Program, which provides 100- is leveraging Educational Broadcast helped a majority of schools meet the Mpbs internet service for $26.99 a Spectrum (EBS) licenses to provide FCC’s short-term connectivity goal of month to households with students eli- home connectivity for underserved stu- 100 Mbps per 1,000 students, according gible for free or reduced lunch. The dents through a private 4G LTE net- to CoSN’s relaunched Digital Equity Hamilton County (TN) Department of work. Spanning 726 square miles at the Initiative toolkit. But because classroom Education disseminates program infor- foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, use of technology and digital resources mation along with applications for free the district is both geographically and is growing, a gap has continued to grow and reduced meals and validates student socioeconomically diverse, comprised between students who have internet eligibility for the program. of both urban and rural communities access at home and those who do not. 3. Deploy mobile hotspot programs. with pockets of poverty and low levels Because it tends to impact low- In the fall of 2017, Oregon’s Beaverton of both broadband adoption and access. income and rural students harder than School District deployed Sprint hotspots According to the National Digital others, the homework gap can intensify in all of their high schools after receiving Inclusion Alliance, broadband is not other income or access issues these stu- a Sprint 1 Million Project grant. The dis- available through either cable or com- dents and their families face. And even trict worked with Sprint specialists, high mercial 4G cellular service in many of if a family has internet access, students school teachers, administrators, and the district’s rural areas. Following an don’t necessarily have access to a counselors to identify students without initial pilot that included partnerships device–or the right device–with a large home internet access. Prior to the hotspot with local police and fire agencies and enough screen or enough data to com- program, teachers in low income schools began with mounting antennas on plete homework. were hesitant to assign online homework, school buildings, the district is expand- CoSN’s toolkit is updated with new practice or readings because many of ing the EBS service to cover additional strategies and examples regarding how their students did not have home internet areas. With an eye toward sustainability, to best address the larger implications access, despite having school-issued lap- its strategy includes partnering with a that come with a lack of home internet tops. The hotspots have changed the way commercial firm to install towers on access. The toolkit also highlights five that teachers deliver instruction. school campuses, allowing the district strategies districts are leveraging to 4. Install wi-fi on school buses. In to broadcast signal to wi-fi devices address those challenges. the Salamanca City (NY) Central while also leasing space to commercial There seem to be five steps school dis- School District, located on the lands of carriers, generating revenue to support tricts are taking in an attempt to close the the Seneca Nation of Indians, Allegany system upkeep. homework gap and help level the playing Indian Territory, in rural western New CoSN also outlines steps school lead- field for rural and low-income students. York State, approximately 40 percent of ers can take to collaborate with local gov- 1. Partner with community organ- the district’s 1,250 students are Native ernments and community for a broader izations to create “homework American. Due to the district’s rural take on digital equity and inclusion: hotspots.” As part of the Access4All location and high poverty rates, many 1. Assemble a team and develop a program, Fairfax County (VA) Public students lack home internet access. shared vision Schools mapped free wi-fi locations for After launching a 1:1 mobile device 2. Assess existing community students. Their Community Internet program, the district worked with the resources, gaps, and needs Access maps list sites in neighborhoods Seneca Nation to ensure students could 3. Engage stakeholders and partners within the district, including libraries, access public wi-fi at the administration 4. Develop and execute a project plan

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BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services

Digital learning itself is expanding in schools, but access to classroom and home technology still remains a major obstacle, according to a new study from Schoology. The State of Digital Learning report is based on responses from more than 9,200 education professionals and covers challenges, priorities, and student achievement as they relate to digital learning and edtech tools. The study yields significant findings regarding challenges and priorities, the role and impact of technology, digital citizenship and emerging edtech trends, and professional development and learning communities. Nearly 42 percent of study partici- pants say lack of student access at home is their biggest obstacle to student learning. More than 50 percent also say their school or district is one-to-one, and device management. Top digital Major findings include: and more than half of them let students learning priorities are providing ongoing 1. Relevant and effective PD take those devices home. professional development, encouraging remains a top concern The study breaks down obstacles to instructor collaboration, and rolling out 2. Professional Learning student learning by rural, suburban, and new devices or device strategies. Communities have a positive urban. Lack of student access at home is More than 34 percent of respondents effect on professional learning the biggest obstacle for both rural (51 cited internet safety as the number one 3. More institutions see the value of percent) and urban schools (close to 45 digital citizenship concern, yet an equal dedicated instructional technologists percent), while insufficient time to number of respondents do not have a 4. Educators are increasingly eager teach individual students who need it digital citizenship program in place or to integrate edtech most is the top obstacle in suburban are not encouraged to discuss the topic 5. Most institutions provide schools (42 percent). with students. differentiated instruction to students K-12 classroom teachers say their About 40 percent of schools allow 6. Nearly half of respondents report top two digital learning challenges are social media for educational purposes that their institutions are using juggling multiple digital tools for teach- only, while nearly 20 percent have an coding in classrooms ing and learning and student access to openly permitted social media policy. 7. Lack of student access to tech- technology. Teachers’ top priorities are These numbers speak to the notion that nology at home is a roadblock for integrating new edtech tools into the institutions are increasingly meeting student learning classroom, along with improving students where they are. 8. Learning Management Systems assessments, reporting, and data-driven Digital learning needs to extend benefit students, teachers, decision making. beyond the K-12 classroom and into administrators, and parents Administrators’ top challenges are pro- teacher PD opportunities. Most PD cours- 9. Social media is finding its place viding relevant and effective professional es are still conducted via in-person work- in the classroom development, dealing with technological shops, with 60 percent of schools and dis- 10. Internet safety is a huge concern infrastruture such as wi-fi and security, tricts relying on periodic workshops.

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BY KYLE SCHUTT learned through multiple perspectives. knowledge supports each of the Four For the past decade of my career, I’ve Offer students shared learning C’s that are pivotal for student success. worked to empower and inspire educators experiences through virtual field trips Connect with other educators to in their use of digital content and technol- that take your students outside of learn practical ideas for digital con- ogy. From teaching educators in graduate your classroom walls. Speaking of tent integration. Whether in-person or level courses and delivering school level snow, one of my favorite times of the online, professional learning networks professional development to producing year is when I travel to Churchill, (PLNs) continue to provide a safe place digital learning content and designing Manitoba for the annual polar bear for educators to collaborate and contin- educational products and services, my migration. Each fall, students come ue learning. Through our surveys, we career has had one common purpose: to along on our journey to virtually to ask continue to hear that educators want to learn how to best support educators’ use share resources and connect with other of digital content. like-minded educators. By getting This work has been informed by hours involved in a community like the interviewing, surveying, observing, and Discovery Educator Network, you can conversing with educators in all roles, access ideas, pictures, and videos grade-levels, and subject areas. demonstrating how other teachers use Throughout this process, I have observed digital content in their classrooms. time and again that when we give educa- Pair high-quality content with tors practical strategies to use digital con- effective instructional strategies for tent, they are more effective at teaching instantaneous engagement. I continue with that content and engaging students to hear how teacher exemplars save in the learning process. planning time and provide thought- Following are five new strategies starters for content integration and educators at any level can use to more engagement. A great example is grab- effectively use digital content to jump- questions of scientists, observe polar and-go lesson activities that can be start classroom learning. bears in their native habitat, and learn modified or assigned to students as-is. Try to discover and implement one how the tundra is connected to their Covering all grade levels and subject new instructional strategy per week to homes. These “event-based virtual field areas, resources like this are practical grow your teacher toolbox. With so trips create a single point in time where and flexible. What’s more, this is my many requirements of teachers, profes- classrooms from around the world con- favorite tip to share with educators sional learning can sometimes take a nect to form a unique and diverse com- because it addresses a common chal- back seat. Practical professional learning munity that takes a deep-dive on a par- lenge: saving teachers time. can be as easy as trying one new idea for ticular topic or moment in history.” I Regardless of grade level, subject sparking conversations, jumpstarting encourage all educators to integrate area, or instructional model, teachers writing, and exploring concepts. One of Virtual Field Trips into their classroom have limited instructional time, they are my favorite strategies, Snowball Fight, instruction. It is a great way to expand working to meet the needs of diverse asks students to write and reflect on what your students’ horizons. learners. They want practical profes- they learn at intentional pause-points in a Enable students to remix content sional learning opportunities that lead to video. After writing a fact they learned and apply what they learn in a digital relevant and engaging lessons. from the prior segment, students crumble medium. Content creation and collabo- their papers and toss them into the middle ration spaces empower students and Kyle currently serves as Director of of the room (not at each other!). After the teachers to design, build, and share con- Learning Communities and next video segment, students pick up a tent in creative ways. With high quality Instructional Innovation at Discovery different paper and add another fact relat- content creation tools, students can cre- Education. He holds a master’s degree ed to what they learned. As the process ate a concept map, organize a digital in Classroom Technology, and is an repeats and wraps-up, each paper pro- portfolio, record and upload a read- adjunct faculty member at Wilkes vides an opportunity for discussion and aloud, prepare a scientific explanation, University, for whom he designed the reflection to correct misunderstandings or produce a character analysis. Giving Creating a STEM Culture Through and dive deeper into the content being students opportunities to apply their Application graduate level course.

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BY ESCHOOL NEWS STAFF completed, what are some challenges come in with little to no background in There’s a widening technology you’ve encountered this year that you the subject and the curriculum allows achievement gap for minorities, despite didn’t expect when DPA was starting? teachers to learn skills through projects blacks and Hispanics having more inter- Ashton: I’ve been working in public before scholars. Both students and est in learning computer science. So why education for nearly 20 years, so not teachers start learning basic programs is the field so dominated by whites? much surprised me when we opened like Scratch before diving into the big eSchool News recently spoke with DPA last year. One component of work- coding languages like CSS and Mashea Ashton, who founded ing with middle school students that Javascript. Washington, D.C.’s first com- eSN: As you know, the tech puter science middle school last field is largely dominated by year in a struggling, historically men, while women and other black community to help bridge demographics are not finding the technology achievement the same success in the field. gap. Today, 99 percent of the What are you doing at DPA to students at Digital Pioneers include these groups of stu- Academy (DPA) are on a free dents? lunch program. Ashton, who Ashton: For us, it started previously worked with Senator with our name. We chose the Cory Booker to create more edu- name Digital Pioneers Academy cational options in Newark, because “pioneer” doesn’t sug- N.J., talked about how innova- gest any specific gender or race. tive educators can help solve the Leaders and innovators come racial achievement gap. from all kinds of backgrounds, eSN: There are lots of cities just as our students and teachers with impoverished neighborhoods continues to push my thinking around do. In fact, girls make up more than half and poor public school systems, so the work we are doing is the challenges of our student body. While our faculty is why did you choose to start DPA in and obstacles our scholars face outside diverse, we hire based solely on align- southeast D.C.? of school. Some of our students have to ment with our mission and values. It’s Ashton: My husband’s family goes carry adult responsibilities or have important that our students know that no back six generations in southeast D.C. experienced trauma outside the class- matter what their skin color or back- and I taught here early in my career. room. I am constantly reminded of the ground, they know that if they believe Southeast Washington, D.C.. is a unique importance of addressing the social- in themselves and put in effective effort and multifaceted community, where the emotional needs of our scholars in an they can achieve their goals. talent pool is high, but access to trans- effort to achieve our academic goals. eSN: D.C. has a booming tech sec- formational educational opportunities is eSN: How would you grade DPA tor, with companies like Amazon often lacking. I love my community and on integrating computer science (CS) choosing to move there over other big know that our students can achieve any- education into the curriculum this cities. As DPA expands its grade lev- thing they set their minds to accom- year? What makes DPA’s CS curricu- els, do you have plans to establish plish. I saw DPA as a way to bridge the lum unique? relationships with any of these com- achievement and opportunity gap for Ashton: Many believe that CS is panies? scholars east of Washington D.C.’s simply too hard to teach, and believe Ashton: We’re already partnering Anacostia River, and for people of color you need very specific expertise in the with Microsoft and Deloitte to give our who are disproportionately underrepre- field just to teach it at a K-12 level. DPA students opportunities to work with lead- sented in the technology field. takes a non-expert-dependent approach ers in the tech industry and expose them eSN: With your first year almost to our CS curriculum: Our teachers to the kind of careers they could enter in

© eSchool Media Inc., All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission is prohibited. 13 K-12 Digital & Mobile Learning Trending News Guides a few years after college. We are trying to uation becomes something tangible. tually the job market, where they can create more opportunities for our students eSN: Where do you hope to see secure in high-paying careers. With more to take part in “expeditions,” where they DPA in 20 years? Are you planning high-quality college-prep schools that are exposed to tech careers in which they any new projects/school startups for prepare students for the digital economy, can apply what they are learning in the the future? we believe we can help break the cycle classroom. They might get to show off Ashton: Our plan is simple: to be the of poverty in areas like southeast D.C. In their skills to experts from these compa- most innovative school in America. We the coming years, we hope to open up to nies and then tour the companies’ offices want to close the achievement and 25 DPA schools in cities across the coun- to see their work up close. We think it’s opportunity gap for low-income and try. We are creating an educational model important for our scholars to experience working-class students of color. that allows for schools to be tailor-made these environments in person so that the We hope that DPA equips all our stu- for their communities and totally replica- prospect of high achievement after grad- dents to enter higher education and even- ble in new areas. When the digital divide hits at school and at home As it turns out, the digital divide proves tougher for students with fewer electronic devices at home

BY LAURA ASCIONE Managing Editor, Content Services Use of Technology at Home and in more devices use those devices for home- School,” which examines overall survey work, while just 48 percent of students The digital divide is proving one of results and results for selected subgroups. with access to only a smartphone use that the most pervasive and stubborn chal- According to the report, among stu- device for homework. lenges in U.S. education, and its effects dents who have access to only one Of students whose parents have a can follow students from kindergarten device at home: college degree, the majority have access through college. • 85 percent were classified as under- to more than one device at home; just 7 A new study confirms that, despite served (low income, first generation in percent of this group have access to efforts to close the space, the gap college or minority). only one device and 3 percent have between students who have access to • 28 percent of students who have one access only to a smartphone–a disad- devices and the internet and those who device at home say that device is pro- vantage of 15 percentage points for lack it compounds equity problems vided by their school–40 percent of first-generation college students. within U.S. schools. those students have a laptop and 31 Various reports and research offer a New research from ACT’s Center for percent have a smartphone. few suggestions as school leaders hope Equity in Learning shows that under- • 56 percent of students reporting access to tackle the digital divide and the served students with access to only one to only one device at home say that homework gap: electronic device in their home may find device is a smartphone. 1. Expand device and internet access it difficult to complete schoolwork. The • American Indian/Alaskan, African among those who lack them homework gap, as it is frequently American and Hispanic/Latino stu- 2. Ensure all students have easy called, is particularly tough on low- dents had the least amount of access; access to the applications they need for income and rural students. Even when white and Asian students had the high- school-related activities via mobile families have one device at home, that est. For example, 20 percent of technology device is often a smartphone, which American Indian/Alaskan Native stu- 3. Look to instructional coaches, isn’t conducive to completing home- dents have access only to a smart- who, according to Digital Promise work or doing research. phone, compared to only 4 percent of research, can play a key role in closing The report, “The Digital Divide and white students. the gap and advancing equity Educational Equity,” looks at the 14 per- Naturally, students with access to more 4. Look to other districts for exam- cent of ACT-tested students who said than one device at home use those devices ples and best practices they had access to only one device at more frequently than students with access 5. Think about unconventional ways home. It was a follow-up to the report to only one device at home. Sixty-eight to connect students to the internet, such “High School Students’ Access to and percent of students with access to two or as putting wi-fi on school buses

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BY JULIA FREELAND FISHER tackling opportunity gaps that shape because of where they live, their fami- Recently, Stanford researcher Raj students’ ability to realize their potential ly’s networks, or the structures of the Chetty came out with yet another new as inventors or otherwise. In recent schools they attend. These emerging study on the jagged landscape of oppor- years, education reformers have focused tools and practices offer a small but tunity facing America. Analyzing the relentlessly on K-12 achievement gaps vibrant beacon lighting the path forward relationship between young people’s and college graduation rates as proxies to address the social side of opportunity exposure to innovation and the likeli- for leveling the playing field. But gaps. hood that they would go on to become Chetty’s data suggests that opportunity Some include platforms, like inventors, the study highlights an alarm- gaps don’t merely spring forth from CommunityShare or ImBlaze. These ing rate of what the authors dub “lost gaps in achievement or attainment— tools are aimed at allowing schools to Einsteins”: young people who show they are based on exposure. They are better tap into local community-based promising potential but who, due to lack also social and geographic in nature. opportunities and experts by cutting of exposure to innovation, appear far The study underscores a fundamental through the logistical hurdle of coordi- less likely to pursue careers as inven- truth about opportunity: it depends, at nating across the school-community tors. Perhaps unsurprisingly these gaps least in part, on our inherited networks. interface. Using CommunityShare, fall along demographic lines. Children Inherited networks, Chetty’s findings teachers can log onto the site to find a

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What schools and colleges suggests that geography can shape the Braven—aim to help higher education can do to surface ‘lost sorts of opportunities on students’ radar. institutions address stubborn opportuni- (The map above shows just how uneven- ty gaps that tend to persist even as older Einsteins’ ly the ratio of patents to children is dis- students get closer to entering the work- tributed across the country). What about force. Braven partners with universities Opportunity is something young peo- those geographies where a diverse array to provide an “Accelerator Course” to ple are—or aren’t—networked into. of industry experts and mentors are hard- arm first-generation college students Although the notion of “networking” can er to come by? In these cases the most with skills, internship experiences, and reek of a shallow exercise at cocktail par- promising innovations may be those that networks. The program is delivered ties or ad-hoc connections on LinkedIn, allow students to diversify their connec- through local volunteer near-peer young Chetty’s research suggests that exposure tions to experts online. For example, professionals working in high profile to certain professions has deep, long-last- tools like Nepris or Educurious allow firms the likes of Facebook, Prudential, ing consequences. Education institutions educators to port online mentors or and Audible. According to its latest can address this reality by exploring experts into classrooms over video. impact report, compared with peers emerging tools and approaches designed Using these tools, educators can begin to nationally, Braven college graduates are to reach beyond students’ inherited net- supplement traditional lesson plans and more likely to have at least one intern- works and, in some cases, immediate projects with live chats with real people ship during college. Their cohorts also geography. If we don’t, countless “lost working in the fields that students are experienced statistically significant Einsteins” will be deprived of—and studying and industries they might even- growth in the closeness of friendship deprive us of—a brighter future. tually work in. networks and advice networks with vol- These tools could help K-12 schools unteer professionals. Julia Freeland Fisher is the director begin to address exposure gaps. Still of education research at the Christensen other innovative approaches—like Institute.

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