Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. As the superintendent in Piedmont, a rural district in northeast Alabama, Akin and his team have worked hard to provide all students with an education that prepares them for the modern global economy.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, students receive a laptop with school and home Internet access. As the superintendent in Piedmont, a rural district in northeast Alabama, Akin and his team have worked hard to provide all students with an education that prepares them for the modern global economy.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads. Way back in 2002, when Friendster was the biggest social network and people were gathering in Internet cafes, the State of Maine implemented the first 1:1 laptop initiative in the country. So, what happened?

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 20, 2014

“The only difference between smartphones and laptops is that cell phones are smaller, cheaper, and more coveted by students” ( Richtel & Stone , 2009). according to the The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop (Shuler, 2009). Below is their wisdom and the research to support it. I want more ».

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 16, 2015

I have the same work and personal laptop - an HP Elitebook Folio 9470m with Core i5 processors and SSD drives. All of my files are in Drive, and backed up on my personal laptop. I'm thinking about the new Nexus 5 that is rumored, or the HTC One M9. It's lightweight, powerful and works great. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

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. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 26, 2019

Kress argues that new media will continue to change the way we communicate and that this will have enormous economic, social, cultural and political implications (Kress, 2009). 2018) Laptop versus Longhand Note Taking in a Professional Doctorate Course. 2009) Literacy in the New Media Age. and Shane, P. DOI: [link] Kress, G.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 2, 2018

but it can also be experienced on a laptop or tablet screen. How do we interact with VR and AR experiences? Within these definitions, we can come to the conclusion that these are two different mediums for learning. For example, VR can be experienced through head mounted devices like those offered through Google Cardboard, Oculus, HTC, etc.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 12, 2010

Here''s Twelve Examples tags : leadership , favorite Google Tools for Teachers (NCTE 2009) tags : Google , favorite Wiki Skills on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 10, 2016

I have the same work and personal laptop - an HP Elitebook Folio 9470m with Core i5 processors and SSD drives. All of my files are in Drive, and backed up on my personal laptop. My work smartphone is a Samsung Galaxy 7 which I use when traveling. I like it, but I like LG's software and screen size better.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

With schools mostly online, nearly one in four public school students in Detroit aren’t logging in or showing up , the superintendent says — many because they don’t have laptops or Wi-Fi. That’s significantly more than in a typical year. For Hispanic students, the percentage rose from 71 to 81.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 9, 2018

In an SLJ post from way back in 2009, I faced an experience that painfully amplified that chasm on a local level. If you had access to your own tablet/computer/laptop at home, one step forward. Each morning they arrive at school ready to go, relying on the presence of a set of conditions that support their academic success.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2009, the 5th grade classes, teachers, and I worked on an oral history project to try to capture some of the stories of Barrow’s history. Our school was originally built in 1923, so there are many stories through the decades that could be told. Each student worked with a partner to interview a guest from Barrow’s past.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. After her death in March of 2009 I decided to see how I could use my expertise to help busy educators and parents hone their skills and knowledge. Vicki: Give us some examples. Doug: Well, the Science Learning Academy in Philadelphia is one where I visited. Vicki: (agrees).

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Sadly, my laptop Keith and I are on our own now. The second session was an interesting rehash of the infamous VLE is Dead symposium we conducted a couple of years ago at ALT-C 2009 in Manchester. Gather round everyone, it's Day 2 of the ALT-C 2011 Conference in Leeds.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 16, 2023

The HBR report above is from 2018 and the Forbes report is from 2009, which is eons ago. But there are a couple of problems with these reports and all the others I was able to find. First, many of them are outdated. And the need for the online option, of course, is much greater than that. But people can and do learn how to use the tech.

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Connecting 2 the World

MARCH 22, 2014

In a recent chapter I wrote about mobile technology, researchers (Ladner, 2008; Julsrud & Bakke, 2009) found that there is a blurring of the lines between work and home life. This is a common outcome of distributed groups (Julsrud & Bakke , 2009), which mobile technology helps to maintain. References: Julsrud, T. E., & Bakke , J.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The Science Leadership Academy is an inquiry-driven, project-based, 1:1 laptop school that is considered to be one of the pioneers of the School 2.0 movement nationally and internationally. Mr. Stager''s doctoral research involved the creation a high-tech alternative learning environment for incarcerated at-risk teens.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 21, 2015

The space was created in 2009 with the Digital Youth Network and support from the John D. The space offers, for example, a state-of-the-art sound studio where teens can record their music, workshops on graphic design, and laptops and video equipment available for checkout in addition to the usual books and music. and Catherine T.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

I wrote a post on December 28, 2009 where I talked about tools that I thought would have a break out year. Once the price is right I think these will replace netbooks and laptops in 1:1 programs in schools. I want to be hip. So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. How did I do? And that is key.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In 2009, the Federal Communications Commission's broadband task force reported that about 65 percent of students used the Internet at home to complete their homework, a statistic that has likely increased given the growing trends of digital learning. How Big Is the Problem?

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 27, 2010

Smackdown Panelists: Andrea Christman Melissa Grabill Kyra Kreinbrook Geordie Paulus - MICCA Outstanding Technology Leader 2009 Matthew Winner Danielle Dunn Gwyneth Jones - The Daring Librarian Aaron Smith - The Art Guy and Selena Ward - The Tech Tiger! Ideally, this should be a *bring your own laptop* session.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

school district’s sixth-grade-only school, work on laptops during class. The district has provided iPads or laptops to all students for several years. In 2013, the district started to provide a laptop or iPad to each student in grades K-12; students and teachers say that doing so has boosted college readiness and digital skills.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 16, 2013

(Kristy) I started my blog at the same time that I started my master''s degree in 2009, thinking I''d blog about what I was learning. Kristy) A touch-screen laptop that switches between tablet/app and fully-functioning computer mode with a standard keyboard. If you could possess only one piece of hardware, what would it be?

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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. That timespan should look familiar: The Great Recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. To submit your question or vote on our next topic, click here.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 9, 2015

2009: Bringing Social Learning to the Masses (Education goes deeper in understanding social connections). 2012: Mobile and Integration (Chromebooks, iPads, laptops, tablets, phablets, phones…yeah the list goes on and on). Here’s my other predictions….I’ll I’ll let you decide if I’m any good at it. and other services take off).

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

You could also make things like tablets/laptops or Legos available in the faculty lounge during lunch time for teachers to tinker with together. New York: Penguin, 2009. And, as we all understand innovative teachers are those who make the greatest impact on their students. Allen, James – Image Credit. Brown, Stuart, M.D.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2012

Steven was voted the Most Influential Tweeter in the Edublog Awards 2009 for his part in helping to create #Edchat which now has over 500 weekly participants. And cellphones, iPads, tablets, computers, laptops, games, pretty much the stuff I fight for in classrooms everyday, have value and can help kids learn and discover and grow.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Apple’s share of the market – which includes its sales of both iPads and Mac laptops – fell to 19% – down from about a quarter of the market. The Chromebooks are not fully-functioning laptops. But there are trade-offs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. The students often work independently, on laptops, with headphones plugged in. Among the fatalities were a confirmed 114 individuals under age 25.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We bought the fancy student laptop carts and sleek furniture. When our school opened in 2009, only seven of our 220 students were reading at grade level; by 2013, the majority were proficient or advanced readers. Then, rather unexpectedly, we were awarded a big grant to test out a hot new topic: personalized learning.

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Philly Teacher

APRIL 16, 2019

It got me thinking about how I’ve been feeling catching back up on social media over the last month, and I reflected on how it felt when I first discovered Twitter back in 2009. It meant that I spent a lot of time staring at a computer screen and less time sitting with my (then) boyfriend who was often in the same room as me.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

John Hattie’s meta-study, Visible Learning (2009), changed the way we think about what works in the classroom. The Apple App Store wasn’t invented until 2008, the iPhone in 2007, Google Maps in 2005, Facebook in 2004—before 1999, most laptops didn’t even have wifi. Now there are internet-connected devices in almost every classroom.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 4, 2015

It became clear to me that we were moving away from computing focused on a single device, be it desktop or laptop. A swarm of mobile devices **in 2009**. Laptops keep mutating into new forms, extra-light, Chromebook, tablet hybrid, and so on. You could hand me a laptop computer, and I could get watching and listening.

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Bryan Alexander

OCTOBER 30, 2015

adults have a portable gaming device such as a PSP or Sega Genesis game player, similar to the share who owned one in 2009”). adults own a desktop or laptop computer. Portable game devices reached a similar plateau (“Some 14% of U.S. This is a sizable drop from early 2014, when 32% of adults owned this type of device.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Interactive projectors were introduced in 2009. It’s now the standard for many laptops and smartphones. It’s becoming the standard for higher-end laptops and PCs. Devices such as digital cameras, smartphones, laptops, satellite boxes, and Blu-ray/DVD players. However, 16:10 is becoming more widespread.

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