eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2020

AW : We’ve been doing 1-to-1 in Maine since 2003 at a couple of grade levels. And then we have been backfilling with Chromebooks that stay in the classroom. When speaking with Andrew Wallace, Director of Technology, South Portland Maine Schools , two classic marketing slogans come to mind: “Think Different” and “Just Do It.”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. link] Martell, C.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market. Already the company offers a touchscreen Chromebook, the Spin 11, with a stylus, which retail together for about $350. Samsung offers its own $30 pen for its Chromebook Plus and Pro lines. What’s in a Pen?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

Now, learning—like the internet—is everywhere thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and chromebooks. We’ve been doing this polling since 2003, so we've got quite an arc in terms of seeing the changes that have happened. It just happens to happen from 8:00 to 2:30 in the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. Fisher Magnet Upper Academy.

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Learning With Lucie

JUNE 7, 2015

Remember that this was in 2003, several years before iPads and other tablet computing had been invented). For example, our schools have invested in thousands of dollars of computer stations (iPads, Chromebooks, laptops) so they could fulfill the requirements of administering computerized high stakes testing.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

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