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School has started, and NJ doesn’t know how many kids are caught in digital divide
About 193,000 New Jersey schoolchildren needed computers or internet access for remote learning as of last month, a problem one state senator said was created by the Murphy administration’s slow distribution of federal funds.
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Phones for low-income users hacked before they’re turned on, research finds
Endless pop-up ads siphon off data paid for with federal subsidies in the Lifeline program, researchers found.
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Bill Creating Commission to Study Feasibility of Community Broadband Networks in New Jersey Passes Full Assembly
Bill Creating Commission to Study Feasibility of Community Broadband Networks in New Jersey Passes Full Assembly
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Emergency purchase ensures every Paterson student will have a Chromebook for school
Emergency shipments of more than 9,000 Chromebooks over the past days will allow the Paterson school district to provide every student with an electronic device for remote learning when the academic year starts next week, officials announced. Paterson had faced a shortage of thousands of devices after the China-based vendor that was supposed to provide…
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Video: Digital Redlining & Connectivity Barriers in Marginalized Communities
A discussion on policy solutions to digital redlining and other connectivity barriers in marginalized communities during the pandemic.
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How to Revive an Old Computer for Your Kid—or Decide on a New One
With millions of kids home from school and parents juggling childcare and working from home, many families are finding they don’t have enough computers to go around. Due to sudden demand and supply-chain issues, new laptops, including many of our picks, are in short supply. So what should you do if you need a laptop…
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‘A national crisis’: As coronavirus forces many schools online this fall, millions of disconnected students are being left behind
Before the pandemic, it was called “the homework gap,” because of the growing number of teachers who assigned homework that required Internet access. Now, as the pandemic forces many schools to switch to remote learning, disconnected students will miss more than homework. They’ll miss all of school.
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Back-to-school laptop guide: Pandemic survival edition
Here are the questions to ask — and mistakes to avoid — for a year when school happens on a laptop
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As more N.J. schools go virtual in the fall, 230K students are stuck in the ‘digital divide’
Like scores of other students this spring, Halimah Herbert’s graduation ceremony from Newark Tech High School was virtual. That was disappointing enough, but Herbert said her shoddy Wi-Fi made it even worse. “I missed half of my ceremony because of my internet connection,” Herbert said.
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DIPNJ’s Response to NJEDA’s Digital Divide RFI
Digital Inclusion Practitioners of New Jersey (DIPNJ) was extremely pleased to hear that considerations forbridging the Digital Divide had been integrated into New Jersey’s restart and recovery plan. We are more thanexcited to see that the state understands the urgency of the issue — particularly as it pertains to education. While we understand and appreciate…
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