{"id":83972,"date":"2022-11-14T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83972"},"modified":"2022-11-14T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:26:36","slug":"the-digital-divide-2-0-navigating-digital-equity-and-health-equity-in-education-brownlee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/11\/14\/the-digital-divide-2-0-navigating-digital-equity-and-health-equity-in-education-brownlee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Divide 2.0: Navigating Digital Equity and Health Equity in Education [Brownlee]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digital Divide 2.0: Navigating Digital Equity and Health Equity in Education<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Mordecai I. Brownlee<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

Luckily, we don\u2019t have to do this work alone. Mainstream awareness of the access gap is growing, which has encouraged corporations like AT&T and Comcast and organizations like United Way to respond by creating employee and community campaigns to bring forth solutions.<\/p>\n

Such awareness has also inspired a surge in federal, state and local governments discussing solutions and infrastructure upgrades. For example, nationally, the Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program aimed at providing affordable broadband access for work, school, health care and more. It is important to note that participants must meet the Federal Poverty Guidelines eligibility standards to receive such benefits.<\/p>\n

Also relevant\/see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Can Colleges Reach Beyond Campus to Foster \u2018Digital Equity\u2019 in Communities?<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig<\/p>\n

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

So his organization is working with the city of Orangeburg and Claflin University to extend the university\u2019s broadband out into the surrounding community at affordable rates. And because\u00a0research from McKinsey\u00a0suggests that more than 80 percent of HBCUs are located in \u201cbroadband deserts,\u201d it\u2019s a strategy that may work elsewhere in the country, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat makes HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions, and universities more broadly, really interesting and powerful partners in bridging the digital divide,\u201d Ben-Avie said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Digital Divide 2.0: Navigating Digital Equity and Health Equity in Education — from edsurge.com by Mordecai I. Brownlee Excerpt: Luckily, we don\u2019t have to do this work alone. Mainstream awareness of the access gap is growing, which has encouraged corporations like AT&T and Comcast and organizations like United Way to respond by creating employee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,159,346,32,419,119,64,46,7,510,87,285,201,836,480,293,66,40,460,48,321,214,312,367,11,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5g","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-distance-education","category-education-technology","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-spaces","category-legislation-legislatures","category-policy","category-remote-teaching-learning","category-society","category-sociology","category-student-related","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-technology-general","category-telecommunications","category-united-states","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities","category-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83973,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972\/revisions\/83973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}