#41: Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband in K-12 - Dr. Emily Bell and Dr. Keith Osburn

Over the last decade, connectivity has gone from a "nice to have" to a "need to have". This is especially true as our schools and the families they support navigate a third school year impacted by a pandemic. Join me in a conversation with the CIO of the Georgia Department of Education, Dr. Keith Osburn, and the CIO of Fulton County Schools in Georgia, Dr. Emily Bell. Learn about the challenges and the solutions we are seeing from both a district, or LEA (Local Education Agency), and from the state level at the Department of Education, an SEA (State Education Agency).

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Links to Resources from the Show:

Video Podcast 🔴 https://youtube.com/channel/focusonk12

Fulton County IT's Twitter 🔴 https://www.twitter.com/FCS_IT_Dept   

Fulton County Schools 🔴 https://www.fultonschools.org

Georgia Department of Education  🔴 https://www.gadoe.org/

Doug Konopelko's Twitter 🔴 https://www.twitter.com/dkonopelko   

Focus On K-12 Page 🔴 http://www.focusonk12.com      

CDW-G 🔴 https://www.cdwg.com/