eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2020

AW : We’ve been doing 1-to-1 in Maine since 2003 at a couple of grade levels. So in my district, we’ve been 1-to-1 with iPads, grades six through 12 since the iPad came out—we were one of the first iPad 1-to-1 schools. And then we have been backfilling with Chromebooks that stay in the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Late last month, as Apple revealed its new education-focused iPad to the nation, it coupled its offerings with a battery-powered stylus, called the Apple Pencil, which costs an additional $89 each for schools. Microsoft does, too, and various pens from third-party manufacturers are beginning to dot the touchscreen Chromebook market.

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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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