Helping Students Learn with Reliable Wireless Connectivity
The explosion of mobile devices in schools underscores the need for fast, secure, reliable, and easy-to-manage wireless internet access—enabling students to learn anytime, anywhere, while letting school leaders focus on instruction rather than solving IT issues.
With the generous support of Aerohive Networks, we’ve assembled this collection of stories from our archives, along with other relevant resources, to help you provide fast, reliable wireless service in your schools and communities.
—The Editors
Poll: Teachers, parents want more technology
Results from a new poll suggest that parents and teachers support more use of technology to improve students’ education and real-world skills. The poll comes from the Leading…
Broadband: Huge potential, but access barriers remain
Broadband internet access is crucial for student learning as online and blended learning expand throughout the country, but obstacles such as digital access and policy roadblocks must be…
Public-private partnership transforms school bus into mobile learning lab
With nearly 500,000 school buses transporting students daily in this country, one in particular stands out at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C. Instead of the familiar…
Report calls for more broadband access in schools
School districts should provide a minimum of 100 megabits per second of bandwidth for every 1,000 students and staff members within the next two years, and federal lawmakers…
Nobel Peace nominee: Pay teachers more, focus on mobile technology
Sir Bob Geldof—an Irish singer, songwriter, author, occasional actor, and political activist—noted during the Consortium for School Networking's recent K-12 Technology Leadership Conference that the world's economy is…
Groups advocate for mobile learning, 21st century education
Two working papers from educational technology stakeholder groups advocate for mobile learning and its ability to expand educational opportunities to students of all circumstances.…
Students want personalized learning, mobile technology
More and more students own mobile devices, including tablets, and indicate a strong desire to use those personal learning tools in school to increase collaboration and access to…
Experts outline mobile learning tips
Mobile learning and the ability to give students anytime, anywhere access to school resources are high on every educator’s list, but the technology brings with it valid concerns—including…
Education groups weigh in on digital media use policies
A new report from a number of prominent education groups aims to guide school leaders as they revise their mobile technology and social media policies to better reflect…
How enterprise-grade Wi-Fi supports interactive learning
This paper examines how schools can apply 802.11n enterprise-class Wi-Fi technology while overcoming such traditional challenges as shrinking budgets, high network management costs, and nagging performance and reliability…
Tips and success stories for effective mobile learning
More and more schools are using mobile learning devices to help boost student engagement and achievement, and a new monograph from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) examines…
Piedmont students to get citywide wireless
The city of Piedmont, Ala., may be less than six months away from setting up a citywide wireless broadband service—a project that started with a push to provide…
Solving the challenges of mobile device management
While the potential for mobile learning with smart phones or other portable devices is huge, many challenges remain before everywhere, all-the-time learning becomes a reality.…
Schools to get $9M for off-campus wireless access
Government officials are handing out $9 million for projects that will help schools extend wireless internet connections beyond the classroom.…
Mobile learning: Not just laptops any more
Not all that long ago, the term “mobile learning” implied laptop computers and mobile carts that were wheeled from classroom to classroom. Now, as a growing number of…
Survey: Schools need faster broadband speeds
More than half of school and library respondents in a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) e-Rate survey say they provide some form of wireless internet access for school…
e-Rate gets facelift with wireless pilot, community access
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Sept. 23 voted to upgrade and modernize the federal $2.25 billion-a-year e-Rate program by allowing schools to make e-Rate funded, internet-enabled computers…
Coming soon: ‘Super Wi-Fi’ connectivity?
A new flavor of Wi-Fi, with longer range and better wall-piercing power, could show up in wireless gadgets a year from now if the Federal Communications Commission works…
Texas district streams video wirelessly on demand
A Texas school system has set up a wireless network infrastructure that is capable of streaming high-quality video to students’ mobile devices—enabling true anytime, anywhere learning to occur…
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