The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 24, 2022
Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. The online software was a lot cheaper than paying a teacher and graduation rates went up. It made school leaders look good.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
JANUARY 4, 2024
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. Smartboards, for instance, have transformed the way lessons are presented, offering interactive and dynamic content that can cater to various learning styles.
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ProfHacker
APRIL 20, 2018
The solution was to replicate the decaying hardware in new software, to somehow transplant a 30-year-old voice synthesizer into a modern laptop — without changing the sound of the voice." Recommendation engines have become The Great Polarizer." But now the hardware was showing wear and tear.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 4, 2019
On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. Closing the gap.
The 21st Century Principal
JANUARY 9, 2011
Consider using open source software rather than purchasing more proprietary software. Honestly, I’ve used it, and there just isn’t enough added functionality to warrant an upgrade from Office 2007. Many of our students already have the laptops and other devices. Or, just don’t purchase the 2010 Microsoft Office Suite.
wwwatanabe
OCTOBER 27, 2010
The second group of students worked on graphing on the laptops with the teacher. The third group was using a coloring program on laptops they borrowed from another teacher. The kids on the laptops got to choose what their learning exercise. In a 6th grade math class, they used the laptops for math games at www.mathplay.com.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.
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