Education

Connect Your Community to Enhance Your Community’s Education System

Today’s most successful schools are preparing students to thrive in a 21st-century workforce by utilizing technology. The Internet and the rich content it delivers is every bit as important as traditional learning tools in preparing children to realize their potential.  Unfortunately, challenges that many schools face, including struggles for funding and pressure to meet minimum testing standards, inhibit schools’ and teachers’ abilities to equip classrooms with technology that enhance student development.

Connected communities leverage resources to deliver the promise of broadband and its applications to enrich and individualize learning, bringing dynamic resources into the classroom. Beyond enhancing student experience, a connected community’s educational program improves efficiencies and enables communication among parents, teachers, and students.

Successful 21st-century, connected communities utilize strategies to:

  • Motivate students and encourage achievement by providing the ability to learn from an extraordinary depth and breadth of digital educational materials
  • Energize classrooms and improve educational outcomes of each and every student through more powerful learning aids
  • Help uncover students' career ambitions by facilitating real-time interactions with industry experts from private-sector companies, health care professionals from local hospitals, as well as staff from arts & cultural institutions
  • Encourage peer-to-peer learning and enhanced teacher/student communications by empowering students to interact with their peers, educators and classrooms throughout the world
  • Expand classroom resources to include today’s computer technologies, including productivity and creativity software, online courses, interactive video, wikis and blogs, global collaborations and shared virtual workspaces
  • Increase campus safety by providing school-, district- or community-wide communications and information exchange with fire and public safety officials
  • Decrease overhead and electronically share back-office support

Investments in education align with community goals for workforce development, economic development, social inclusion and civic engagement.

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