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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Newly published, peer-reviewed research out of Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine suggests that one-to-one laptop programs improve student academic achievement in K-12 classrooms. Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. Warschauer, M., H., & Chang, C. (in

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

Edsurge

One of the most high-profile initiatives this century was the “One Laptop Per Child” effort led by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte. When it launched in 2005, the idea of a $100 laptop for the world’s poorest children captured the backing of Google, eBay and UNDP. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, all students in grades 4-12 receive a Macbook Air laptop with home Internet access. Compatible with MacBook Air laptops. Next Generation Science Standards and 2005 Alabama Course of Study: Science. from Digital Promise on Vimeo. Requested Product Attributes.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This story was produced as part of the nine-part series “Are We Ready? Are We Ready?

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Are too few college students asking for federal aid?

The Hechinger Report

The completion rate for the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, among 2018 high school graduates barely improved from the class of 2017, according to a July report from the nonprofit organization National College Access Network. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. For the class of 2018, 60.9

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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Adobe Flash End of Life & the Threat to Education

myViewBoard

Flash peaked around 2005 when other programming platforms starting to gain tractions including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Teachers started to have their own classroom personal computers, which was followed by even more advanced laptops and tablets. Countless software and computer applications used Flash. They offered: .

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