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title: 490 – Scrambled Eggs with a Side of Equity
description: "The week’s edtech focused WELSTech episode features ideas for assisting students with broadband Internet access in their homes, the opportunity to host a movie theater screening of the new Luther movie, a new computer science curriculum for middle schoolers, a design tool for the church and school office, and some tasty(?) robotics. The discussion: Jason […]"
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# [490 – Scrambled Eggs with a Side of Equity](https://welstech.wels.org/2017/03/28/490-scrambled-eggs-with-a-side-of-equity)

 Written by [Sallie Draper](https://welstech.wels.org/author/sallie-draper) | Mar 28, 2017 8:11:00 PM

The week’s edtech focused WELSTech episode features ideas for assisting students with broadband Internet access in their homes, the opportunity to host a movie theater screening of the new Luther movie, a new computer science curriculum for middle schoolers, a design tool for the church and school office, and some tasty(?) robotics.

[https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_490.mp3](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_490.mp3)

Podcast: [Download](https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/welstech/WELSTech_Episode_490.mp3) (Duration: 41:31 — 38.0MB)

### The discussion:

Jason Schmidt, Technology Coordinator for [Bennington Public Schools](http://www.benningtonschools.org/) near Omaha, NE and one of WELSTech’s Semi-Regular Classroom Technology Correspondents, is just back from a exciting weekend of [First Steamworks competition](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMiNmJW7enI) from [First Robotics](https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc). Check out [The Blue Alliance](https://www.thebluealliance.com/) for live streamed competition videos.

<https://welstech.wels.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/490.jpg>Broadband equity for students – While Martin enjoys a little family time, Jason and Sallie discuss the topic of digital equity. Students inability to access the Internet via a broadband connection in their home environment can be caused by economic factors as well as lack of coverage in rural location. This inequity has been identified as a difficult challenge impeding technology adoption for K-12 students in [the New Media Consortium K-12 Horizon Report 2016](https://www.nmc.org/nmc-horizon-news/nmc-and-cosn-release-the-horizon-report-2016-k-12-edition-toolkit/). We take a look at programs to assist with meeting this challenge.

- [EveryoneOn.org](http://everyoneon.org/) – Low Cost Internet | Digital Literacy
- The 1 million project from Sprint

### WELS now:

Learn how your congregation can host a movie theater screening of the new Martin Luther movie, *A Return To Grace*.

### Picks of the week:

- [The Catalyst from Tinkering Labs](https://www.tinkeringlabs.com/) 
    - [Unboxing the Electric Motors Catalyst](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYHWijdVCA)
    - [See 16 inventions in 1 minute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvuhKZrhTc)
    - Tinkering in Kindergarten
- [Nebraska Educational Technology Association (NETA) Spring 2017 Conference](http://www.netasite.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=445&Itemid=58) – April 19-21 in Omaha, NE
- From [Code.org](http://Code.org), check out [CS Discoveries](https://code.org/educate/csd), a computer science course for grades 7-9

### Ministry resources:

- [Avery Design & Print](https://welstech.wels.net/2017/03/28/avery-design-print/)

### Featured video:

[Promevo TV](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlIsYKTC2VsKaaw8mtyjnQ) featured this [Head to Head: Asus C302 vs. Samsung Chromebook Plus. Who wins!?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVugxeVIBfo) video review, a new addition to the WELSTech Product Demo YouTube playlist.

### Coming up on WELSTech:

Episode 491 – Pastor Stephen Daly shares his experience with the Bullet Journal, the analog system for the digital age. Release date: Wednesday, April 5.

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