Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

When we went into shelter-in-place on March 17, we were clearing out Chromebook carts [not only] for students but also for our own employees. Langford said the district had discussed a one-to-one Chromebook plan for years and an evening technology help desk for students. Overnight they became tech support for the entire community.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. RELATED: Racial segregation is one reason some families have internet access and others don’t, new research finds. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

With this in mind, we developed WeVideo Classroom to make multimedia creation accessible to all students, while also better serving the everyday needs of schools. Built directly into the Chrome browser for easy use and accessibility, the Quick Recorder makes creating instructional videos a two-click task.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

As Jon Corippo, chief learning officer for the nonprofit group Computer-Using Educators ( CUE ), put it: “When do you see that ever?”. They were proficient in accessing information and completing assignments right from their Chromebooks.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. BURNS: The technology gives students access to resources they might not have been able to access in the past. The school received federal funding that included money for classroom technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2016

Record lessons that students can access anytime, anywhere. I’ve started for you by noting cost, what digital devices they work best on, and suggested age group: Educreations . Educreations is best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads. Best suited for any age group and is designed for iPads.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Alex was an enthusiastic 9th grader in my World History course and had just been issued a Chromebook as part of our district’s 1:1 implementation. My enthusiasm was dampered, though, when one of the student groups came to me after class and complained about Alex. This surprised me as Alex always worked hard in class.

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Tech Helpful

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For a couple of years I've been trying to figure out a way to have an elementary tech team.I Our elementary school is piloting the idea of elective Friday's for fourth and fifth grade students. Week two: Today students were broken into two groups and one group worked with me to learn troubleshooting for devices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Coral Zayas Coral Zayas is the new elementary instructional support specialist for science in Crowley ISD’s iNetwork of schools. All of the ISTE groups have phenomenal educators. One of the things that the Facebook group shared was MIT's new AI and CS community for educators. My team supported me a lot.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff.

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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. I believe there will be a small fee to access it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Tech Helpful

AUGUST 4, 2017

At that point iPads were the only device being used in our elementary school. This blog post is a repeat for iPad users but I'm now adding ideas for chromebooks because we are doing a 1:1 chromebook rollout for them this year. Some districts have chosen ways to both monitor and control student access beyond filtering.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The district has approximately 3,700 students and comprises an Early Childhood Center, five elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and a technical school that serves its high schoolers and students from six other areas sending schools. Louis, Missouri, in a town of the same name with a population of nearly 18,000 people.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

Service offers teacher-recommended titles with simultaneous access for K-5 students in class, at home and everywhere, both online and offline. These eBooks are instantly available with simultaneous access for every K-5 student in class, at home and everywhere, both online and offline. eBooks instantly available both online and offline.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2019

For example, Wabash County issues all students MacBook Airs and iPads (your school could use Chromebooks) that are available to students who can’t get to school: All Wabash County students in grades 3 through 12 have a MacBook Air they take home every day. For snow days, K2 students can bring home the iPads they use at school. .

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Kyle Pace

APRIL 30, 2017

we’re giving kids access to, we must constantly be assessing where parents are at in terms of a foundational understanding of what this means for their child(ren). parents are the most underserved group in education. Yes, elementary students too. With all the 1:1 implementations, STEM, apps, devices, etc. Guess what?

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 18, 2018

Students gather around the lab table helping one of the group members focus in on a specimen on a flat panel screen from a USB camera connected to the microscope. Another group of students is using a remote sensor that is strapped to a matchbox car traveling through banked turns and loops. Imagine this classroom scenario.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The biggest reason, I think, it’s the tool to go to, is the ability for it to be in the cloud and accessible to a large number of students and to bring an unparalleled educational experience to them that you can’t re-create in the classroom. All of a sudden, all you need is that access to get into the world, and then the sky’s the limit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Nobody really wants to carry the Chromebook or a laptop with you. What I like about the chat option is that teachers don’t want to give out a cell phone number to parents or anything, but you can build a Remind group, and parents will have access to text you to have a conversation. Special Ed Treasure #4: Seesaw.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others. After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

I create a main classroom group for each level I teach because I want to promote the online PLN experience. So all of my Honors 9 students are in one group regardless of period and all of my English 12 students are in another group. When I name my groups I always use the following naming convention: School Year & Level.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Provided the appropriate scaffolds, these students can use technology to not only access content to answer their myriad of questions, but also to create content to teach not only their peers but even their parents and teachers! User Logins on Chromebooks. Got 1:1 Chromebooks ? Got shared Chromebooks?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

Families who needed devices for their kids also picked up Chromebooks. Teachers are doing their best in an unprecedented and constantly changing situation, but the varying amount of training districts are providing has created a patchwork of quality and gaps in accessibility. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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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. The search for digital equity is multi-tiered and doesn’t stop at the need for access to devices. Additionally, the apps and information that each child has access to need to be uniform.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

Vista school officials started by trying to replicate the academy’s intimate structure, in which four teachers shared the same group of 150 students and got a block of time each day to plan lessons together and review who needed additional help. And having small groups of teachers sharing the same students also paid academic dividends.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2018

There was a meme a couple of years ago about this little elementary kid. Some kids are working one-on-one or in small group settings with me as a teacher. And when I’m not working with one kid, I’m floating around like a butterfly all over the classroom, trying to get to every group, trying to check in with students at all times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

Laura: Hyperdocs are basically links that we provide for children to access different websites and articles that we want them to read. Then I actually have Google Classroom, which is where I put it so it’s a little bit easier for them to access. Now, Laura, let’s break it down so some of our listeners will know what hyperdocs are.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 10, 2017

Using the featured Science Journal app (Android and Chromebook only), students can measure light, sound, and more. How to integrate Making & Science with Google in your classroom: The Science Journal app makes any Android phone or Chromebook computer into a scientific tool that students can use to collect data on light, sound, and motion.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The tool offers a free version for teachers with access to its basic features. A paid upgrade to Seesaw Plus gives teachers access to more privacy options and other features. You don't have to sign up to get access to see what's on the site, but registration is necessary for full access and exploration.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . These can help when a number of students are asking the same questions outside of a group setting. . Tech 4- Chromebook Edition (Nicole Alford), iPad Edition (Sarah McKinney). Elementary Digital Playground: Tic-Tac-Toe (Sarah McKinney). Videos available until Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. With everything shut down, the chronic issue of home internet access became an immense and acute challenge. on March 18, 2020. Mackey Pendergrast.

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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. Another 8,000 had a documented exemption, such as no internet access or an inability to leave home to pick up academic paper packets. Related: How to reach students without internet access at home?

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2015

The teacher, Lacey Chimienti, had created a small group activity where students were using Popplet – a mind mapping tool – to brainstorm words with the short-e sound (egg, elf, elk, etc.). The same activity could take place on a computer or Chromebook using Google Slides and a screencasting tool such as SnagIt or Screencastify.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different.

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