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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

Edsurge

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. I remember going to one of the very first schools that bought iPads for all their students, and we walked around and talked to all the kids asking, ‘Hey, what are you really excited about with these iPads?’

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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

For the past six years, district Superintendent Dr. Michael Nagler has championed and thoughtfully questioned our strategy for meeting the needs of every learner. Matt Akin was a visionary early adopter of classroom technology when he deployed iPads throughout his district in 2003, long before edtech was the norm.

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The Progression of our Lower School Technology Integration

Tech Helpful

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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Humanizing technology

Learning With Lucie

Not because of the coolness factor, but because I felt that I would now be able to be in a meeting with someone without the screen/keyboard of our computers creating an artificial barrier/wall. Remember that this was in 2003, several years before iPads and other tablet computing had been invented).

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. We never really integrated.”.

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