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“By adding Globalstar’s TLPS service, our network congestion at [Washington School for Girls in Washington, DC] decreased significantly.”

Inside Scoop from Bobby Koeth,
Washington School for Girls

Students using new technology at Washington School for Girls in Washington, DC

As the Educational Technology and Media Specialist at the Washington School for Girls (WSG), my job is to enhance our students’ learning experience through the use of technology and media. When I joined WSG two years ago, the school had 40 aged-laptops, an unstable, congested network, and its first set of tablets. As a result, technology was not well-integrated into our curriculum, and our teachers were hesitant to utilize technological tools in the classroom due to frequent technical problems accessing the internet and syncing devices.

Our partnership with GlobalStar has proved essential to our transition to a technology-rich school by providing both TLPS broadband access at our middle school campus and Chromebooks that are specially manufactured to work with the TLPS network. WSG conducted some infrastructural upgrades for the 2015- 2016 and then Globalstar approached us about partnering with them for a one of a kind experiment. By adding GlobalStar’s TLPS service, our network congestion at school decreased significantly. By providing additional frequencies, more devices and students were able to access the internet without increasing our bandwidth. With the donated chromebooks from Golobalstar, we have been able to reach our goal of a 1:1 student to device ratio. Previously, teachers were unable to use Chromebooks and other mobile devices in the classroom due to inconsistent and slow network access. Now, we not only have enough devices to provide students with individualized learning experiences, we have the network infrastructure to support the use of outstanding online tools such IXL Learning and Khan Academy.

As a small, independent school that serves 130 girls from low-income communities in the DC metropolitan area, WSG recognizes that students need to learn technological skills to be successful in the modern workforce. For many of our students, WSG is the primary, if not only, place that they can access online tools and develop digital skills.

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