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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Quickly after iPads, schools fell in love with Chromebooks and their amazing ability to allow students to collaborate and share, not to mention their ease of maintenance. This is driven in large part by the affordability and portability of digital devices like Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. Similar forces are said to contribute to a tightening in the global, self-paced e-learning market.). percent in all of 2015 and only 0.2 Chromebooks Thriving in U.S.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

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Here are some of the most recent winners: School District 51 (CO) students scored 9,000 new Chromebooks for the next school year. The Chromebooks and charging carts were purchased with $3.18 A four-year replacement cycle will be set up for Guilderland’s Chromebooks. Another $32,724 will be used for school connectivity.

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6 Tech Treasures for Special Ed Teachers (K-6)

The CoolCatTeacher

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. Nobody really wants to carry the Chromebook or a laptop with you. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq. Listen Now. TechTreasures.

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Supply and demand: Getting low-income kids into better jobs by getting them into better schools

The Hechinger Report

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. A monitor she is wearing as part of a PE project is going off, informing her she has reached her resting heart rate, and cueing her to make a note of her current activity.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

The Hechinger Report

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. On Chromebook purchases, some districts paid up to $90 more for the same product and services.

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Teacher Voices: Megan Douglas

Learning with 'e's

Megan Douglas (@MegDouglasTeach) graduated from Plymouth University in 2015 with a B.Ed Children in school have a Chromebook each along with access to tablets in each class. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. This is the second of my series of blog posts celebrating the achievements and progress of former students.

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