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Tech That Won’t Survive 2018

Ask a Tech Teacher

Let’s see which ones won’t make it in 2018. Today, smartphones and tablets are cheaper than ever; moreover, their prices are going to decrease which means that desktop computers, as well as computer labs, are about to become extinct in schools. As mentioned above, mobile devices are going to become essential inside the classrooms.

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Tapping Tech-Savvy Students for IT Support and Digital Learning

EdTech Magazine

Even earlier than that, about 10 years ago, Burlington High School in Massachusetts created the BHS Help Desk, which trained students to help with the one-to-one deployment of tablet computers. This generation grew up with mobile technology, and many received their first mobile phone as preteens. Now, the help desk has evolved.

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Tapping Tech-Savvy Students for IT Support and Digital Learning

EdTech Magazine

Even earlier than that, about 10 years ago, Burlington High School in Massachusetts created the BHS Help Desk, which trained students to help with the one-to-one deployment of tablet computers. This generation grew up with mobile technology, and many received their first mobile phone as preteens. Now, the help desk has evolved.

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Tapping Tech-Savvy Students for IT Support and Digital Learning

EdTech Magazine

Even earlier than that, about 10 years ago, Burlington High School in Massachusetts created the BHS Help Desk, which trained students to help with the one-to-one deployment of tablet computers. This generation grew up with mobile technology, and many received their first mobile phone as preteens. Now, the help desk has evolved.

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App smackdown: 20 apps from ISTE 2018

eSchool News

Mobile devices are a key component in many classrooms, and apps go hand-in-hand with those mobile devices. Some districts implement programs where students use tablets, and others allow students to bring and use their own devices. Students can learn how to design in 3D with small projects that offer step-by-step video tutorials.

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Closing the Digital Learning Gap

Digital Promise

Technology, and especially the internet and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, has become ubiquitous in our daily lives and affordable even to our public schools. Mobile devices let teachers and students do what they naturally want to do: move around the classroom or campus, work one-on-one and in small groups.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices. LINDSAY, Calif. —