4 reasons it's time for school tech to graduate from makeshift to modern
A year of hybrid learning has shined a light through the cracks in education technology.
Families with and educators of school-age children had to cobble together a learning environment that's more reliant on technology than ever before. And they have encountered significant challenges.
The state of the student
15 17 million students don't have internet at home.
Access disconnection
Off-site and even some on-campus learning requires online access. Yet nationwide, millions of students simply don't have a way to get online
particularly learners in low-income households and rural areas. This disconnection creates a homework gap that hurts their education.1
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70% of students live in a multi-learner household.
Bandwidth bottleneck
Students have siblings. Families are taking turns hosting groups of learners.
Parents are working from home. That's a lot to ask from a single residential internet connection. Students need speeds of 25 Mbps download and
12 Mbps upload to support activity by multiple, concurrent users.2
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85% of network traffic in remote learning is used for video.
Online traffic jam
Teachers and students cannot always connect in a physical classroom.
So one-on-one, small-group, and whole-group instruction takes place via online meeting tools, and assignments are posted to classroom sites.
These concurrent activities push a lot of data across school networks.
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92% of students use
Wi-Fi instead of a wired network connection.
Down to the (hard)wire
