Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye.

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Tom Murray

JANUARY 12, 2016

With the new year now upon us, listed below are six edtech resolutions for 2016. Equity in access, from broadband to devices is a concern and something that districts need to work to meet head on. “ Districts having success in this area are committed to meeting families where they are. But how does the community know?

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 31, 2016

I also took a couple of sets for my office and sometimes in an informal meeting I’ll take them out and we’ll play around with them to keep our hands busy while we talk. I can’t travel often, and I get FOMO for all the events I miss and the people I don’t meet. I loved working at the meets all summer.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Let’s try meeting all of the needs of our students in math,” Sheppard says.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We track our health with wearable wristbands, our smartphones are basically pocket-sized laptops capable of doing and finding what we need within seconds, and the majority of our communication channels have turned digital. For instance, in a 2016 Unit4 study, students gave their opinion on schools’ use of technology.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Back in of spring of 2016, Futuresource Marketing reported that Chromebooks were the most popular K-12 device out there, with Chrome OS accounting for more than 50% of the market. Representatives reported that the release would happen “sometime in the 2016-2017 school year.” For more information, visit the Google education blog.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 5, 2018

In the spring of 2016, our district decided it was ready to go 1:1 with Chromebooks district-wide during the next school year. In the fall of 2016, we launched two class periods with 6 students per class, who served as the student help desk. With that experience, he took apart his mother’s laptop and repaired the screen for her!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The district convened a series of meetings with teachers, school leaders, parents, city officials and community members to discuss what kind of educational system the community needed. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León said that other students she meets are fascinated when she tells them she’s never received a letter grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Yung’s 2016 project inspired other teachers to replicate it in their own classrooms. Throughout the year, seniors can earn raffle tickets by taking college-related actions like filling out their FAFSA form, scheduling a meeting with their college counselor or applying for a scholarship.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. Deb transformed her classroom into a blended learning environment using her class website as a launchpad, as well as laptops and iPads with her students daily. How does that work?

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 1, 2016

For instance, over the last few months, I’ve had a lot of fun discussing Don and Alex Tapscott’s new book, Blockchain Revolution , with educators associated with the ISTE Games and Simulations Network as part of their book club (and presented on blockchain technology at the 2016 ISTE conference).

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. 1 at the elementary level.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. Haynes has a one-to-one laptop program, and students also can bring their own devices to school.

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Adam Welcome

AUGUST 31, 2016

Do we dock a teachers paycheck if they're late to school one day, miss a staff meeting or say something they shouldn't have to a parent? I brought it up with the entire staff at a meeting and a very veteran teacher raised her hand. Of course we don't. Do we make teachers sit in a three hour training and then.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

They also understand that Chromebooks last as long and are as sturdy as traditional laptops and despite the myth, they realize, just like laptops, you don’t need the internet to access your core suite of tools. Modern school districts have noticed that the cost of providing each child a device is no longer a hurdle.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2016, Fisher was named one of the 38 campuses at risk of closure after the Michigan legislature passed a bill saying any school ranked at the bottom 5 percent of state campuses for three years in a row would be subject to consequences. To meet students where they are, Brownlee has a couple of go-to tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

And potential students are taking campus tours, imagining themselves burning the midnight oil in the library and meeting their new roommate in dorms. But many of them are opening up 3D maps and taking virtual tours on their phones and laptops, thanks to location-based and virtual reality software. Image Credit: CampusBird.

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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. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops. Fellows attended monthly meetings at which they could share their questions and observations about personalized learning. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. That should extend into 2016. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The 2016-2017 Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) ExploraVision competition is kicking off the 25th year of the world’s largest K-12 science competition. There are two winner phases to the competition – regional and national. For the national phase, members of first-place nationally winning teams each receive a $10,000 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Around him, the busy classroom hums as 30 students work on laptops, interact with other teachers and chat among themselves. BROOKLYN, N.Y. Math teacher Aaron Kaswell is checking off names he’s written on a whiteboard table in blue dry-erase marker. It requires a lot more human involvement.”. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. Pedrotti took over as principal of Brook Avenue Elementary School in January of 2016, and Torres joined her that April. BrAveLearns pic.twitter.com/O5co6gC4Ni.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

Jessica is a 2016 NAESP/VINCI Digital Leader of Early Learning and an awesome person to connect with. Sphero pic.twitter.com/Q6vyJKI7wQ — jessica cabeen (@JessicaCabeen) May 17, 2016 The ability to collaborate with many different groups of people on challenging tasks and under pressure would be a huge asset to have in any employee.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 31, 2016

I've also attended sessions of people I follow on Twitter (but have never met in person), so it's a great icebreaker when you meet in person to say, "Hi, I loved your session. Meet Up with Friends Old and New Don't have lunch plans? I follow you on Twitter!" Having drinks with coworkers? Share your thoughts below!

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Graphite Blog

MAY 31, 2016

I've also attended sessions of people I follow on Twitter (but have never met in person), so it's a great icebreaker when you meet in person to say, "Hi, I loved your session. Meet Up with Friends Old and New Don't have lunch plans? I follow you on Twitter!" Having drinks with coworkers? Share your thoughts below!

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2017

For this reason, few empirical studies may be more detrimental to encouraging the use of technology in education than Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) “The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard” as well as Carter, Greenberg and Walker’s (2016) “Effect of Computer Usage on Academic Performance.”

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 8, 2019

She emphasizes that meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities through the use of technology “can make reading instruction a multi-sensory process that is engaging and explicit while maintaining the individualization and diagnostic-prescriptive aspects of the lesson.” Join the Community.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 27, 2017

In the two years since my district began our 1:1 laptop initiative our classrooms have evolved once more. The house to be built or renovated is designed to meet the needs of the client in a functional and pleasing manner – while also meeting the building code along the way.”. New technology, new standards, and new content.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But today we’re seeing pictures of kids still sitting in front of rows with the teacher standing in front of the classroom–instead of a textbook, they have an iPad or a laptop. We have faculty meetings every week, and who knows best what’s happening in a classroom? That is not making the classroom modern.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

That was in January 2016. In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Most classes meet in a large central room that feels part art studio, part living room. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop. Ozobot Evo Meet Evo: the golfball-sized bot that moves around the floor or table, responding to commands programmed using OzoBlockly. Learn more > goo.gl/hneIsI

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Edcamp events are free, generally locally organized “unconference” meetings where the agenda is decided by those in attendance. Educators with non-EDU technologists: JAMF is a well known provider of tools that help organizations deploy and manage Apple computers, laptops, tablets, phones, and their users.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Working with stakeholders and consultants, it was decided to incorporate a project-based, competency-based model that would use laptops as opposed to textbooks, and students would work by the mantra “as fast as you want and as slow as you need”. We celebrated our first graduating class of students in June of 2016.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

Making Through the Lens of Culture and Power: Toward Transformative Visions for Educational Equity (Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University and Paula Hooper and Meg Escudé, Exploratorium, forthcoming in the Summer 2016 issue of the Harvard Educational Review.). Wingo, George Mason University, paper presented at AERA 2016.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. We all just have to rise to the occasion to meet the needs of the children.”. Burk said approximately 1,400 teachers attended the fall 2016 session — and 12,000 teachers have received the training since Gov. That’s what the state has put in place.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Since the fall of 2016, the communications department at Dominguez Hills has banned smartphones, laptops and other personal technology in every classroom — with grade deductions for violations — except for teacher-guided use and “tech breaks” during longer classes such as Eames’s. My guess is it will go to 5 hours plus.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Through our cloud-based Learning Content Management System (LCMS), educators can source and control the delivery of quality and validated educational content from their own tablet, laptop or desktop. When a teacher selects an application from their tablet, laptop or desktop it is presented on the presentation display (IWB, TV or projector).

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