eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 15, 2020

Working Remotely with My Gifted Elementary Students. Our state and thus my district made an extremely quick decision to close the schools – heard last Thursday night and was told to send home with students Chromebooks along with lessons on Friday, a half day. If you have additional ideas, please share them in the comments.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The app was named a winner of the Tech & Learning Best of Show at ISTE 2020 Awards and the platinum winner in the STEM/STEAM App category of THE Journal ’s 2020 New Product Awards. The Tech & Learning Best of Show at ISTE 2020 Awards recognize products that are transforming teaching and learning during the pandemic and beyond.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Out on Capitol Hill, she warned, the feds are “itching to take this money away from us.” We’re unstoppable.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Stanley Black and Decker Making for Good Student Challenge runs now through Thursday, January 30, 2020 for students in the US in grades 9-12. The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. BPS distributed 55,000 Chromebooks and 6,000 hot spots to students last year and paid for 2,000 Comcast internet vouchers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

2020 has sent more students to our ebooks, it’s made me rethink collection development and those are things that are not going to change moving forward,” Gauthier says, adding that her district is purchasing ebooks in bulk to be shared among its elementary schools. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

For months, her youngest, Daniel Lewis-Coleman, a fourth grader, started his school days just as he had in March 2020, perched at a small table in the family’s kitchen. Daniel Lewis-Coleman had a new backpack to use on his first day of in-person classes since March 2020. Credit: Noah Willman/The Hechinger Report. “It

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Available as a 30-day free trial and for a site-license subscription, Vernier Video Analysis enables students to use their Chromebook or another mobile device to insert a video with recorded motion and mark points to track the object in motion.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

After that one morning session, Dunlap, a scientist who grew up in Japan, withdrew Annika from kindergarten at her local public elementary school in Fremont, California. Kindergarten, a foundational grade for young children, is typically the first year of elementary school, even in the 31 states where it isn’t required.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. But the district is trying to address the problem: It distributed nearly 111,500 Chromebooks to students for home use during the closure and deployed special Wi-Fi-equipped buses to various neighborhoods.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

According to that article, there would be 1 million unfilled computer science jobs by 2020, based on estimations from the U.S. The public charter school provides every student with a Chromebook and purchases licenses to online curricula for subjects including English language arts, math and computer science. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., on March 18, 2020. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020. What works for a high school in a major urban area may not fit the needs of a rural elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, when the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others rocked the nation, they joined the nation’s Black Lives Matter movement and led a protest march in downtown Helena. Now, after a year of mass Covid deaths and political insurrection, they are reaching out to their students through Google Chromebook screens.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report. May 26, 20201.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. Is There Techquity in Your Chromebook Infused Classroom by Holly Clark and Ken Shelton. © Shake Up Learning 2020. But first… Shoutout. Revisionist History Podcast.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Tech 4- Chromebook Edition (Nicole Alford), iPad Edition (Sarah McKinney). Elementary Digital Playground: Tic-Tac-Toe (Sarah McKinney). — SlidesMania (@SlidesManiaSM) May 22, 2020. Sarah McKinney shares a list of teacher PD choice board examples. . Summer VACAY Bingo (Anderson One Instructional Technology Team).

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

After the morning handshake, the students would get themselves set for the day, fire up their Chromebooks, and head straight to our Good Morning Google Form. I understand that this tip is formatted for an elementary or middle school classroom, where we spend a lot of the day together, but these tips require little time and prep.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

You don’t need a Chromebook or any other device with this case. In a survey of state testing agency recommendations, Logitech found in 2020 that 70% of state testing agencies highly recommended or required external keyboards on assessments (Logitech, 2020). The Logitech Rugged Combo 3 Touch. Why is this device helpful?

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Kathy Schrock

MARCH 1, 2020

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in March 2020 and is re-posted here with permission. Elementary students will enjoy the short video, Attributes of Circle s, which includes information about the relationship between circumference and pi. and reflect the date.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by the year 2020, there will be one million more computer science jobs than graduates prepared for these jobs. Chromebooks, laptops, desktops. Kodable Curriculum for Elementary. Computer science is a primary driver of the U.S. modern browsers and tablets. CS First (Google). 9 – 14.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition. If you have a mobile device or Chromebook at the center, it’s almost like having you right there with them. At Anastasis, we start every day with a whole-community meeting. Since we couldn’t be together each morning, I recorded a video as if we were together.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

In many classrooms these days, teachers and students have their own laptops, Chromebooks or iPads. Shari Jones’ sixth-grade language arts students are using WeVideo to record and edit their podcast at Independence Elementary School in Liberty Township, Ohio. ” Copyright 2020 NPR. The good news? ” WeVideo.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 11, 2018

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. But I don’t feel we’re really doing enough to draw them in because this is an industry that by the year 2020 that is going to grow to be a $1.5

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition. If you have a mobile device or Chromebook at the center, it’s almost like having you right there with them. At Anastasis, we start every day with a whole-community meeting. Since we couldn’t be together each morning, I recorded a video as if we were together.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. But one thing is for sure.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

Or use the keyboard shortcut: Control + Shift + N (PC and Chromebook). Mystery Hangouts are particularly great for elementary grade levels. © Shake Up Learning 2020. Incognito is a unique browser window that will not automatically log you into any accounts. In Chrome, click on the 3 dots > select New Incognito Window.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Market data and services firm MDR has updated a wide-ranging survey it last fielded in 2018 about teachers and tech, and the resulting report, “How 2020 Shifted Perceptions of Technology in the Classroom,” illustrates how COVID-19’s disruptions have upended some edtech trends and accelerated others. Popular educational apps. Accelerated?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Kristen Stein , an elementary school teacher who enjoyed remote learning more than expected. Age: 26 Taught: T-K and kindergarten School: Two Rock Union Elementary in Petaluma, Calif. She was diagnosed with severe dyslexia and ADHD in third grade, and her elementary school years were shaped by those learning challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

Last school year she taught to a Chromebook, filled with dark squares where kids’ faces ought to have been. “I Some kids went months and months without Chromebooks; others never logged on at all. “We At home in front of her Chromebook, she struggled to get motivated for her online courses. “My

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. Becky Alexander is the principal at Morris Elementary School in Morris, Oklahoma. Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 23, 2017

Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Office 365 ProPlus updates | Office Blogs → If you've purchased Office 2016 (or earlier) perpetual licenses from Microsoft, their ability to connect to Office 365 services will expire in 2020. And here I thought perpetual meant more than 4 years. Tagged on: April 24, 2017 Uber’s C.E.O.

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MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

School : Two Rock Union Elementary in Petaluma, Calif. She was diagnosed with severe dyslexia and ADHD in third grade, and her elementary school years were shaped by those learning challenges. So fall 2020, I’ll make my debut as Mx. School: Joseph Martin Elementary School in Hinesville, Ga. Hannah Long.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

COVID’s impact on schools was so substantial that Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). The panelists put stopgaps in place to ensure students were learning and engaged: providing devices such as Chromebooks to all students and setting up WiFi hotspots. Anna Logan.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Many teachers like to create topics for subjects (great for elementary), weeks, units of study, and more. That dream is now a reality for those with managed Chromebooks! A Chromebook managed by your school for each student. Google Classroom Updates for the 2019-2020 School Year. 4: Use Locked Google Forms Quizzes.

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