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email contact sharpstf@gmail.comFred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.comBlogger2675125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-37620987047780907282020-11-22T15:42:00.004-05:002020-11-22T15:42:54.758-05:00ROADBAND AND STUDENT PERFORMANCE GAPS<p> https://quello.msu.edu/broadbandgap/</p><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #202020; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 38px; line-height: 50px; margin: 3px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Background & Motivation</h2><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 7px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sdm_download_button_box_default" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sdm_download_link" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="sdm_download blue" href="https://quello.msu.edu/?smd_process_download=1&download_id=7896" style="background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(rgb(171, 228, 248)), to(rgb(111, 206, 243))); border-color: rgb(141, 197, 218) rgb(118, 183, 207) rgb(99, 171, 199); border-image: initial; border-radius: 3px; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; box-shadow: rgb(214, 214, 214) 0px 1px 1px, rgb(192, 235, 250) 0px 1px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(30, 70, 87) !important; display: inline-block; font-family: HelveticaNeue, Arial; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 8px 11px; text-decoration-line: none; text-shadow: rgb(182, 230, 249) 0px 1px 0px; transition-duration: 0.3s; transition-property: all; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Broadband Gap">Download Now!</a></div></div></div><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Broadband and Student Performance Gaps is the result of a project designed to understand the repercussions of poor or no home Internet access on student performance and the associated costs to society. The Quello Center at Michigan State University (MSU) and Merit Network, in December 2018, brought together the K12 Citizen Science Working Group, a small group of stakeholders from Michigan school districts. From this group, three Intermediate School Districts (ISDs) volunteered to work with the Quello Center and Merit Network to develop and pilot an approach to measure rates of home connectivity among their students and explore the relationship between connectivity and student performance.</p>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-14426040860341517582020-11-22T15:40:00.001-05:002020-11-22T15:40:19.768-05:0053% of Americans Say the Internet Has Been Essential During the COVID-19 Outbreak<p></p><div class="ui text container post-content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); counter-reset: section 0; display: block; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.14286rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; max-width: 640px !important; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; width: 1127px; word-spacing: 0px;"><figure aria-describedby="caption-attachment-25642" class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_25642" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; width: 640px;"></figure></div><p></p><header class="post-header" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); display: block; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><h1 class="post-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 2.57143rem; font-weight: 700; line-height: 41.4px; margin: 0px; min-height: 1rem; padding: 0.5rem 0px 1rem;">53% of Americans Say the Internet Has Been Essential During the COVID-19 Outbreak</h1><h2 class="post-subtitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: abril-text, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.71429rem; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 1rem;">Americans with lower incomes are particularly likely to have concerns related to the digital divide and the digital “homework gap”</h2><div class="bylines" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: franklin-gothic-urw, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 0.928571rem; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;">BY<span> </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/emily-a-vogels" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d4488; text-decoration: none;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: inherit;">EMILY A. VOGELS</span></a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/andrew-perrin" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d4488; text-decoration: none;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: inherit;">ANDREW PERRIN</span></a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d4488; text-decoration: none;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: inherit;">LEE RAINIE</span></a><span> </span>AND<span> </span><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/monica-anderson" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #5d4488; text-decoration: none;"><span class="author" style="box-sizing: inherit;">MONICA ANDERSON</span></a></div><div accordion-tab-only="false" id="js-toc-mobile" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></div></header><p>https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/04/30/53-of-americans-say-the-internet-has-been-essential-during-the-covid-19-outbreak/</p>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-18535373533810805272020-04-30T18:19:00.000-04:002020-04-30T18:19:08.663-04:00Why rural Americans are having a hard time working from home<h1 class="pg-headline" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fefefe; box-sizing: border-box; color: #262626; font-family: CNN, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 2.66667rem; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 930px; padding: 25px 0px 0px; text-align: center;">
Why rural Americans are having a hard time working from home</h1>
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VIRGINIA TAKES A BIG STEP ON RURAL BROADBAND<br />
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Technology was supposed to bring about “the death of distance” and allow people to work anywhere they wanted to live. Instead, just the opposite has happened. A “great divergence” — as some economists call it —is piling jobs upon jobs in certain high-tech capitals while leaving rural communities behind.</div>
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There are few things that both liberals and conservatives agree on but here’s one of them: To bring more economic growth to rural areas, we need to wire them <img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7005" height="182" src="https://connectednation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ImageGen-300x182.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; height: auto; margin: 0.35em 0px 0.35em 1.313em; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" />with broadband internet. Think of this as the modern-day equivalent of rural electrification. The Massachusetts technology company Akamai used to produce an annual report on internet speeds. It hasn’t done so since 2017 but here’s what that last report showed: Many of Virginia’s cities that year had internet speeds that zipped along at more than 20 megabits per second. Many parts of rural Virginia, though, had internet speeds that crept along in the single digits – slower than many countries in the developing world. If you want to be blunt about it, much of rural Virginia operates at Third World levels. This isn’t just a problem for technology companies or people who want to see the latest cat video; even your most traditional employer has a front office that probably has to do some work over the internet.</div>
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It’s hard to blame the telecom companies. They’re for-profit entities but that black ink starts turning into red ink if they have to lay miles and miles of fiber across rural America. That’s led even the most ardent free marketers to recognize that government needs to step in if rural America is going to have the infrastructure for a 21st century economy. In the 2017 governor’s race, both candidates were in favor of rural broadband, which meant it didn’t get much attention — there wasn’t much to debate. Ralph Northam’s specific goal was to get the entire state wired on broadband by 2022 — an ambitious goal that won’t be met. In reality, the whole state will never get wired 100 percent — there’s always that hunting cabin in the backwoods of Highland County that’s off the grid in lots of ways. State officials conclude a more realistic goal is 97 percent. To reach the final 3 percent, the cost doubles. Or, put another way, the state can cut the cost in half if aims for 97 percent.</div>
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The Federal Communications Commission says that right now 91.7 percent of Virginians have broadband access, so we’re really focused on that final 5.3 percent to get to 97 percent. Are we really that wired already? It’s unclear. “There is good reason to believe these numbers are exaggerated,” reads a recent state report on Virginia’s rural broadband plan. The FCC data is sometimes pretty vague because internet providers aren’t required to say who exactly has service and at what speeds — and they’re reluctant to provide them for competitive reasons. That’s created a conundrum: How can the state help expand rural broadband if it doesn’t know who has broadband and who doesn’t?</div>
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<br />Experts are furious over the FCC’s rosy picture of broadband access<br /><br />The data the agency uses has been criticized as flawed<br /><br />By <a href="https://www.theverge.com/authors/colin-lecher">Colin Lecher</a><a href="https://www.twitter.com/colinlecher">@colinlecher</a> May 30, 2019, 12:16pm EDT<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18644726/fcc-broadband-report-high-speed-rural-statistics-reactions">https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18644726/fcc-broadband-report-high-speed-rural-statistics-reactions</a>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-53886405897608847062018-07-04T11:49:00.002-04:002018-07-04T11:50:35.575-04:00Here is a survey of what people think should be in an ultimate school setting.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Key Trends Accelerating K–12 Tech Adoption </b></span><br />
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• Long-Term Trends: Five or More Years<br />
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<li>Advancing Cultures of Innovation</li>
<li>Deeper Learning Approaches </li>
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<li>Growing Focus on Measuring Learning </li>
<li>Redesigning Learning Spaces </li>
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• Short Term Trends: The Next One to Two Years<br />
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<li>Coding as a Literacy </li>
<li>Rise of STEAM Learning </li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Significant Challenges Impeding K–12 Tech Adoption </span> </b><br />
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• Solvable Challenges: Those We Both Understand and Know How to Solve<br />
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<li>Authentic Learning Experiences </li>
<li>Improving Digital Literacy </li>
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• Difficult Challenges: Those We Understand, but Solutions Are Elusive<br />
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<li>Rethinking the Roles of Teachers </li>
<li>Teaching Computational Thinking </li>
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• Wicked Challenges: Those That Are Complex to Even Define, Much Less Address<br />
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<li>Achievement Gap </li>
<li>Sustaining Innovation through Leadership Changes </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Important Developments in Educational Technology for K–12 Education</b></span><br />
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•Time-to-Adoption of One Year or Less<br />
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<li>Maker spaces </li>
<li>Robotics </li>
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• Time-to-Adoption of Two to Three Years<br />
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<li>Analytics Technologies </li>
<li>Virtual Reality </li>
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• Time-to-Adoption of Four to Five Years<br />
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<li>Artificial Intelligence </li>
<li>Internet of Things<br /> </li>
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Full Horizon Report<br />
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So they have created this challenge to encourage students of all kinds to come up with game ideas and submit them. The students do not have to know how to code, they just need to be able to come up with a compelling game idea. This is an opportunity for any creative person.<br />
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Attached is a copy of an information letter you may share. Follow this link to the site, which includes a neat little "game" that will inform the player on many of the issues surrounding gaming and diversity.<br />
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The winner will receive a $10,000 college scholarship and $15,00 for their school and the top five will get a trip to the Electronic Entertainment Expo and an opportunity to showcase their game design, receive mentor-ship from leaders in the industry, and join a celebration of women in gaming.<br />
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Please help me get the word out on this exciting opportunity by sharing it with other educators.<br />
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Link to full details on this program <br />
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This is an exciting time for Michigan. They will be the 28th state chapter. <br />
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Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-14562991425312481592018-03-31T17:03:00.001-04:002018-03-31T17:04:17.476-04:00Closing the "Homework Gap" panel discustion.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFx4aHGszD8" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-25699968004964013292018-03-31T17:01:00.002-04:002018-03-31T17:01:52.632-04:00 Bridging The Digital Divide: Lance Lucas at TEDxBaltimore<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iII3si2qKQ4" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-70298701158648642052018-03-31T17:00:00.001-04:002018-03-31T17:00:19.726-04:00If You’ve Never Heard of the ‘Homework Gap’ This Video Will Shock You<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yqkAlwGsxwE" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-59122385870763538502018-03-31T16:42:00.002-04:002019-06-13T17:42:42.000-04:00FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: National Digital Inclusion Day MessageFCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel: National Digital Inclusion Day Message<br />
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The home work is growing as students don't have access out side of school. Teachers are assigning home work that needs access to this resource. Internet is no longer a nice to have but has become a necessity as running water and other services. <br />
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CoSN Builds State Work—Utah and Michigan Named New Chapters<br />Washington, DC (January 30, 2018) – CoSN today announced the launch of two new<br />state chapters, Utah and Michigan.<br />Led by the Utah Technology Coordinator Council and the Michigan Chief Technology Officers<br />(CTO) Council, the state chapters expand CoSN’s education technology advocacy and<br />service to school technology leaders in communities nationwide. Utah and Michigan increase<br />CoSN’s state chapter reach to 29 across America.<br /><br />“The positive impact of our work is made possible through the close<br />partnerships we forge on the local level. CoSN warmly welcomes Utah and<br />Michigan as our newest chapters, and we look forward to working closely<br />with them to advance modern learning environments,” said Irene Spero,<br />Chief Strategy Officer, CoSN.<br />About the Utah State Chapter<br />The Utah Technology Coordinator Council is an organization of K-12 education technology<br />leaders representing every district and charter school in the state. The chapter will advocate<br />for the development of education technology leaders in Utah; lead ongoing professional<br />development opportunities; help ensure that education technology supports teaching and<br />learning; as well as learn from a broader community of leaders represented by CoSN.<br /><br />“We appreciate the opportunity to have worked with CoSN over these last<br />few years, from professional development programs to peer-to-peer events.<br />We stand ready to expand our relationship in the months ahead,” said Rick<br />Gaisford, Education Technology Specialist, Utah State Board of Education.<br />About the Michigan State Chapter<br />The Michigan CTO Council is a premier organization for educational Chief Technology<br />Officers serving Michigan schools. This chapter will work with CoSN to build the<br />leadership capacity and skills of current and aspiring education technology leaders<br />throughout the state.<br /><br />“The Michigan CTO Council values the long-standing work of CoSN and its<br />members across the United States. We are excited to now join in and<br /><br />contribute to CoSN’s meaningful efforts and expand Ed Tech leadership<br />opportunities across the state of Michigan,” said Dr. Beverly Knox-Pipes,<br />Secretary, Michigan CTO Council.<br />Learn more about CoSN’s state chapters at: cosn.org/about/state-chapters.<br />About CoSN<br />CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for<br />school system technology leaders. For 25 years, CoSN has provided leaders with the<br />management, community building and advocacy tools they need to succeed. Today, CoSN<br />represents over 13 million students in school districts nationwide and continues to grow as a<br />powerful and influential voice in K-12 education. Visit CoSN.org to find out more about<br />CoSN’s focus areas, annual conference and events, advocacy and policy, membership, and<br />the CETL certification exam.Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2795398216522066947.post-86110852471372094142017-02-01T22:02:00.001-05:002017-02-01T22:02:47.690-05:00Mindfulness Lessons at Spring Hill Elementary School<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hPkOvqVQFzM" width="480"></iframe>Fred Sharpsteenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12219880278809140649noreply@blogger.com0