The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This post and podcast episode will give you everything you need to get ready to participate in the Hour of Code and Computer Science Education Week in 2019. Share photos and videos of your Hour of Code event on social media. Dance Party 2019. Chromebooks, laptops, desktops. © Shake Up Learning 2019.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Scholars like Jordan Shapiro and Stacey Steinberg have argued that parents need to model healthy social media use with younger children, and let them participate. The favorite media-based activity among girls is listening to music — like Ashley Mingo’s K-pop faves. Seven in 10 teen girls use social media every day.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Me Conecto para Aprender aims to close the gap in access to information technologies and promote their use across Chile by providing all of the country’s 7grade students a laptop computer, a year of internet access, and high-quality digital resources that encourage the use of the computer. We look forward to the success of this partnership.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The AI Education Project , founded in 2019, hopes to teach young people about artificial intelligence and the way it will impact—and is already impacting—their lives and livelihoods. Tanner: I would say the persona of the course is what students are used to finding online, on social media platforms. That was absolutely the No.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a recent edWeb edLeader Panel sponsored by Project Tomorrow , Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 25, 2018

EduCon 2019 is around the corner! In the world we live in today, that means that we have to use the tools of the day—be they laptops, Chromebooks, smart phones, social media, Google Apps or anything else. We have to make schools leverage the best of what we are and what we know.

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The Thinking Stick

AUGUST 14, 2016

So they “leapfrogged”, skipping the laptop/Chromebook in carts phase, skipping trying to figure out what is the most equal way of getting devices in the hands of kids, and they just did it. May 2015: Every teacher receives a new laptop. The district makes the jump from desktops to laptops for educators.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. As we took notes on our $2000 laptops, those stats seemed too far off. Students are stressed out.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Armed with laptops, Legos (with no shops to build mechanical structures, the school sent kits) and pads of Post-it Notes, along with their social rituals — meals together, Friday craft nights, a running notebook of their funny quotes — they created a quarantine campus. Credit: Photo courtesy Alex Butler.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2019

Before you post a picture or share a cute story about your kids on social media, think twice and get their permission if possible. ” Check your privacy settings on all social media sites. Also, it’s a great way of role modeling respectful behavior and good judgment on social media.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Screens and digital media are everywhere, from everyday tech like TVs, phones, and gaming consoles to the laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other tech we use in school. Kids of all ages are consuming and producing more digital media than ever before. Of course, not all screen time is created equal. Perhaps something in-between?

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Philly Teacher

APRIL 16, 2019

Screenshot of Mingda T’s LinkedIn post from April 11, 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. This is not to say that social media is inherently bad.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Social media caption: Technology platforms that differentiate and personalize your lesson plans. One awesome thing about Remind is that you can access it from your laptop to send longer messages. If they ask me something that might be a longer message, I can get on my laptop and type it faster.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

George Couros says we need to stop trying to get back to 2019 and to create something new and better for every child. Limited quantities on desktops, gaming laptops, high quality monitors, thunderbolt docks, wireless mice and more. They have everything from computers, gaming, laptops, or even a slick wireless mouse.

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Education Social Media Laptops Assessment 336

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

CAST Med, scheduled to open in the San Antonio Independent School District in the fall 2019, will prepare kids for midlevel careers in the booming healthcare field, such as nursing, anesthesiology, and phlebotomy. Mohammed Choudhury, chief innovation officer for the San Antonio Independent School District.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

billion by as soon as 2019. Where they’re located, or whether a desktop or laptop computer is around, is now irrelevant. Another one of the major ways that m-learning is transforming online education – particularly in K-12 environments – has to do with social networking. More than that, there were 2.1

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Use our free add-on for Google Slides to create and display live polls and Q&A right within your presentation, while your students can vote on their laptops or smartphones using just a single event code – no need to download or install any app. 19, 2019 , and will close on Dec. Completely updated and redesigned for 2019!

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Handouts, infographics, and posters Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education (by the Center for Social Media): An indispensable guide for educators trying to wrap their minds around fair use in the classroom. You'll need to pay for each course, but once you do it'll be in your library forever.

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MindShift

MAY 29, 2019

She says that problems with video games often are found in children who also have a diagnosis such as ADHD or autism spectrum, while young people who have problems with social media are more likely to have a diagnosis such as depression or anxiety. Then there is a group of mostly girls who misuse and overuse social media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank. movement nationally and internationally.

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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. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. They don’t take good notes on their computers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

” These beliefs are readily amplified and shared by the very “network effects” baked into the infrastructure of social media platforms. But blaming social media is too easy and too simplistic. Should you ban laptops ? Half of high school classes will be taught online by 2019. Is ESP real ?

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