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Savvy #ISTE17 Interviews: BYOD ISTE Sessions for Tuesday

Teacher Reboot Camp

This year Cori helped oversee the BYOD sessions. Cori gives a quick overview of Monday’s BYOD sessions. I have included a list of BYOD sessions you could attend today, Tuesday, with times listed and room numbers. Tuesday BYOD Sessions. Chrome App Smashing to Create Chromebook Generated Videos (B332).

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How we turned around our ability to support BYOD for now and for the future

eSchool News

Biggest challenge: With reliance on mobility for K-12 curriculum increasing, the demand for wireless in our district has also increased. We not only have encouraged our faculty and staff to embrace BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), but we have also provided Chromebooks to all of our 18,000 students.

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Computing, Cost Savings and the Cloud: The Value of Virtualization

EdTech Magazine

Even amid the proliferation of mobile technology in K–12 schools through BYOD programs and one-to-one computing, desktop computers remain a popular choice. Another benefit of the cloud: Using AppStream from Amazon Web Services , students and teachers can run Microsoft apps on Chromebooks — no need for a Microsoft device.

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How to bundle education device management

eSchool News

In some cases, demand far outstripped supply, leading to backlogs of requests for laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other school-issued devices. As a result of the logjam, many schools implemented a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy. The pandemic accelerated the adoption rates of educational technology solutions.

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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Provide devices and mobile WiFi, if possible. The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. In the case of the latter, this is what the Mount Olive School District did. Equity matters more than ever.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

Will more schools embrace student-centric mobile devices? These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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How teachers address cell phones in class

Ask a Tech Teacher

Protocols for these mobile devices have little in common today with how they were addressed a decade ago. When students want to do quick research on a topic, look up a word, run a calculation, or review a concept, they can hop on a cell phone much faster than logging into a Chromebook or laptop. And why not?

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