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K–12 Districts Prepare Students for Careers in the Tech-Dominated Economy

EdTech Magazine

The district has mobile ­computer labs in all schools and provides Samsung Chromebooks and Lenovo ThinkPads loaded with Google Apps for Education. In 2015, Fresno Unified School District teachers and administrators noticed that there were no girls signing up for high school computer science courses.

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U.S. Personal Computer Market Grows Despite International Decline

Marketplace K-12

K-12 market, shipments of personal computing devices continue to grow, but at a slower rate than during the double-digit, fast-growth years of 2013 to 2015, according to Futuresource Consulting , a London-based research company that tracks the school market. and Lenovo led the U.S. percent and Lenovo’s dropped by at least 2.3

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LAUSD to get $6.4M in software settlement from Pearson

eSchool News

Another computer company, Lenovo, also had charged the district for Pearson curriculum. The deal with Lenovo came later, after the district decided to include devices from other manufacturers and to slow down a technology rollout that was beset with problems. ©2015 the Los Angeles Times. The district won’t have to pay $2.2

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Picking a Chromebook for your 1:1 Program

The Electric Educator

At the end of 2015 we learned that 50% of devices in the classroom are Chromebooks. Look at models from Lenovo , CTL , and HP. And for good reason. They are affordable, flexible, and easy to manage. And in today's increasingly web-first world, having a device that was born on the web is a good option.

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Dr. Seuss Author Study Centers

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

— Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2015. I setup 5 Lenovo computers with the Seussville website pulled up. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2015. Center 2: Checkout. Rather than waiting until the end to have students check out books, I made it a center. Center 3: Seussville on computers.

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Dr. Seuss Author Study Centers

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

— Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2015. I setup 5 Lenovo computers with the Seussville website pulled up. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2015. Center 2: Checkout. Rather than waiting until the end to have students check out books, I made it a center. Center 3: Seussville on computers.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

K-12 education, a number that’s been rising since 2013 and has been above 50 percent every year since 2015. percent in 2017, and has been just north of 20 percent every year since 2015. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 Outside of the U.S.,

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