As funding is phased out for some technologies and increased for others, here’s how you can get more of what you need.
- By Geoffrey H. Fletcher
- 10/27/14
Students have better wireless access to the Internet at home than at school, according to a new report.
Washington state’s Highline Public schools has become the first district to deploy a new service that provides students with mobile broadband access for school work using their Chromebook devices.
- By Stephen Noonoo
- 09/04/14
With field tests underway, will CCSS reach the same tipping point that the Affordable Care Act has?
- By Christopher Piehler
- 07/30/14
With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I approve the telecom giant's acquisition of Time Warner Cable — with one big condition.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 03/19/14
High-speed mobile broadband is poised to explode within the next five years. According to a new forecast, by 2019, subscriptions to LTE and LTE-Advanced will reach into the billions.
According to the latest data, video for homework is on the rise; mobile computing is "beyond the tipping point"; and most kids don't use traditional computers to connect to the Internet at home. Those are just three of the major trends revealed in the 2013 Speak Up Survey from Project Tomorrow.
Wisconsin's Green Bay Area Public School District is taking a novel approach to supporting its 1-to-1 Chromebook program. Rather than simply using standard WiFi, the district is providing broadband access via 4G LTE and allowing students to use the network on and off campus.
Education could well see major changes to how it's able to deliver learning content to students with this week's ruling by a federal court on the Open Internet (Net Neutrality) Order.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/16/14
A pair of studies released Wednesday — the first of their kind — found that tablets can make a difference in the learning habits of students.