MindShift

JUNE 27, 2017

They sat logged into their school-provided Chromebooks studying exercise ideas from their sports coaches. “We don’t want the haves and have nots,” said Kristen Landis, the director of technology for the North Penn School District in Pennsylvania, which allows students to take home their Chromebooks. In 2016 alone, 12.6

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Caine oversees the school’s Chromebooks. Her district of Garfield County has provided a computer to every student since 2016. The godfather of Utah’s new educational broadband plan is Jason Eyre, who was the IT director for Garfield County Schools during their one-to-one Chromebook rollout. Others show up just for the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

But, over here, we use a Chromebook, and the classrooms, if you prefer to stand up when you work, a lot of classrooms have high tables with no chairs. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Tell me a little bit about the personalized curriculum at your school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

A couple of years ago, I was part of a year-end webinar with MindWires’ Consulting’s Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein and one or other of them – I don’t remember now – predicted that 2016 would be a big year for the LMS. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. ” But what did Facebook do?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Much as she loves technology, Wilkins-Walker said, “I have never wanted to be an online teacher.”. Last school year she taught to a Chromebook, filled with dark squares where kids’ faces ought to have been. “I Online learning was challenging for many students. This story also appeared in Billy Penn.

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Georgia Test Prep

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A 2016 report found that students check their devices for “non-class purposes” 11.43 Devices like a Chromebook, noise-canceling headphones, an extra, larger monitor are all great additions that could enhance a child’s learning experience, but may not be within everyone’s budget. times a day on average.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity. During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. Use of the online program also makes it difficult for students to do homework.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Classes will be online until at least the spring. The district distributed Chromebooks at the start of the school year, but several of his young students with disabilities couldn’t use the mouse and keyboard. said Whittaker of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

While the labs are designed for virtual reality headsets, most of the approximately 250 schools using the platform access the labs with Chromebooks, Steven said. On laptops and Chromebooks, though, the labs still work. They competed against each other in robotics competitions but teamed up in 2016 to start building their labs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks.

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