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NH Digital Opportunity SymposiumOctober 11, 2013
Comcast Riley Conference Center, Manchester NH
Deepest thanks!
Comcast for hosting this event and heroic efforts making this gathering possible
The school/community teams
State association leaders – NHDRC, NHPTA, NHSBA, NHSLMA, NHSTE
NH IHE Network
Our other amazing corporate partners – GovConnection, Capstone Digital, Dell, EBSCO…
National partners – ALA, AASL, ATE, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, GenYes…
And my own NH DOE, for letting me do this work (and Stan Freeda’s unstinting support)
Our Goals Today
1. Raise awareness that the digital divide at home
• Has 5 key dimensions• Must be closed• Can be closed in collaboration with
committed partners
2. Assist teams to develop action plans
• At the school/community level• At the state association level• Within the state’s colleges of education
to ensure low-income children & family learn about and use these resources for educational and economic opportunity
5 Key Dimensions of Digital Equity(PT3 Program, ISTE special interest group)
Equitable student access to:
1. The stuff – hardware, Internet, and software
2. High quality digital educational content3. Culturally responsive educational
content4. Opportunities to create their own
content5. Educators (and school leaders) who
embrace the importance of digital equity
The Dark Ages of the Digital Divide
No digital equity solutions at scale
Big deal to get a dozen refurbished PCs
No affordable connectivity
“Open” educational resources – what?
Not an easy time to be an equity advocate
Digital Divide was an overwhelming foe
Comcast’s Internet Essentials
Affordable broadband for free/reduced lunch eligible families in Comcast communities
nationwide
2 million eligible families
That provided leverage to seek out partners to scale up affordable:
The wonderful power of erosion…
GovConnection – NH-based national leader reselling hundreds of thousands of technology products
Pool low-income families’ buying power to…go to scale…thus lowering price per computing device…making essential home technology resources more affordable
Started with Dell – laptops, tablets…
Now expanding to wireless routers for the home
Seeking printer manufacturer with low ink refill pricing
Might also create affordable “technology toolbox” for all future educators that IHEs can “require”, so candidates can finance via financial aid
Wanted to start with foundational skill development in early literacy
Capstone Digital’s myON Reader: comprehensive reading environment for year-round literacy skill development
Will be building pointers to open educational content – www.oercommons.org
GovConnection & hardware co.’s willing to create customized drive images
Follett strongly interested
EBSCO on board with educator development resources
Susan Ballard, AASL’s immediate past-president
Leadership of ALA and AASL agreed to
(1)inform low-income children & families re existence and value of D.O. resources(2)Help them use these resources safely & effectively
GenYes training at-risk teens to provide tech support for teachers agreed to
(3)Adapt training for teens to provide tech support at home for families(4)Customize training to discounted devices –e.g., home wireless routers
Free pilot in NH until we co-generate grant support for local GenYes chapters
NHSLMA, NHSTE & NHDRC incredibly supportive of this whole effort
Tap financial support under Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
Expect to launch pilot in 2014 in San Antonio with
• SAISD• Accion Texas• Federal Reserve Bank of Texas
To offer low-interest financing to families with bad or no credit
Hope successful pilot will convince banking industry toVoluntarily commit 1/10 of 1% of CRA funds for digital divide
This would free up…
…$200 annually for digital divide funding
More than “cheap boxes and wires”
For this effort to mean anything
we need educators, librarians, IT experts, school leaders and communitieshelping impoverished children learn to use these resources effectively
for educational & economic opportunity
“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length—and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”
– Carlos Casteneda
Presented by
Robert T. McLaughlin, Ph.D.Founder & Co-Chair, Digital Opportunity ConsortiumChair, Association of Teacher Educator’s technology commissionAdministrator, Professional Educator Preparation Program ApprovalNew Hampshire Department of Education101 Pleasant StreetConcord NH 03301Office: 603.271.2634Cell: 802.249.1159