Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 4, 2020

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. This is the only way computers send, receive and store information. For example, Ms. About Codelicious.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. This is the only way computers send, receive and store information. For example, Ms. About Codelicious.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Like other K–12 school districts around the country, you’re closing the digital divide — making sure your students have access to technology that paves the way for their future successes.

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Digital Divide Social Media Chromebook Laptops 209

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Two student at Greenville’s Em Boyd Elementary, work on a science project on an iPad. He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Laptops iPad Elementary Report 40

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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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 62

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. With these laptops, many teachers rose to the challenge of using digital materials—a new concept back in 2009.

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Elementary EdTech Case Study iPad 76

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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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This nationally representative study on how kids age 8 to 18 use media highlights what kinds of access kids have to technology, what they're doing on those devices and how often, and how much they enjoy the various types of media activities they're engaged in. Your students still don't have equal access to technology.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Policies Laptops 45

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This is especially evident over the decade, as schools have increasingly adopted mobile learning as a signature initiative using BYOD and 1:1 programs and investing in tablets to provide their students with access to a wealth of relevant educational content and learning opportunities. Mobile students. Preventing security and privacy issues.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Classroom Tablets 183

EdTechTeacher

MARCH 13, 2020

While creating and sharing audio has been challenging and often problematic in the past, there are three approaches that educators can take, with very little background experience, to begin leveraging audio to connect with their students, share information, and create a sense of community during this challenging time.

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Laptops Chromebook Google LMS 140

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. 78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life.

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

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. AVer Information Inc.,

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EdTech Robotics Assessment STEM 131

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Schools will receive grants to cover all enrollment costs and student access to laptops, as necessary. For more information about VHS Learning please visit [link] and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning. The partnership enabled the schools to enroll the students in VHS Learning’s AP courses via a NMSI grant program.

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Course Laptops Learning Secondary 83

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Is easily accessible at school or home. Works on desktops, laptops, and tablets , including Chromebooks, and on whiteboards. HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings. It is perfect to assign to students online.

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Common Core Elementary Chromebook Laptops 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. We have a much more equitable approach to technology and access to technology than we had in the past,” says Shawn Lambert, assistant superintendent for Brunswick School Department.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 86

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A new era of teaching that integrates multiple media and information sources has begun. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. Using graphs, charts, and other visuals to represent information was associated with a 26 percentile-point gain in student achievement. Reinforcing instruction.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Training 256

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A birds-eye view captures a bed, a clock and a laptop, surrounded by the bedroom walls which seem to creep closer to the bed as one looks on. In a recent report , the association recommended trauma-informed teaching strategies to promote mental health through self-expression—for their students’ sake and their own.

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Social Media Laptops Strategy Report 163

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The app delivers children’s books in short chunks—on laptops, tablets or smartphones—and quizzes students about the content along the way. Samantha Nichols, a teacher at South Barber Elementary, in Kansas, is among the early users of SpoonRead. Using blockchain, the college creates tamper-proof records,” he wrote.

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Company Smartphone Laptops Tablets 84

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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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 70

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. At the start of the program, students are given an inexpensive smartphone with internet access, which they get to keep once they complete the program.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 145

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

Barrow Elementary, the project begins with each student selecting one of six nominees from civil rights history to research. Each year, I begin by sharing Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize by Kathy-Jo Warginalong with information on the Nobel Peace Prize. Named for our school, David C.

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Libraries Laptops Google iPad 95

Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? However, some elementary schools prefer that homeroom teachers hand out the Chromebooks in class. With just one click, obtain your Chromebook information in the system to then easily distribute. As a result, only some grades or classes have access to the devices.

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Chromebook Libraries Elementary System 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Access wasn't the only problem, explains Rugg. It sits in 50 high school classrooms, 22 elementary classrooms, and two district conference rooms. The technology is used daily to support the high school’s 1:1 laptop program. The original device didn't work across platforms or support multiple devices. It was failing us."

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Student Engagement Classroom Software Laptops 117

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Elementary and secondary schools provide for many students’ basic needs, which may not be met when those institutions close. Students may earn worse grades as a result of courses shifting online, either because they don’t take to the format, Mazer says, or because they don’t have access to required technology like laptops, Goldrick-Rab adds.

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Outcomes Secondary Laptops Elementary 95

MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

She also provides information such as where to access public WiFi so students can keep up with classes. In the past month, his son, who is in elementary school, has been assigned multiple worksheets per day. “I Many districts have distributed laptops and wireless hot spots to families without Internet , for instance.

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Policies Secondary Elementary Chromebook 68

MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The call to provide equal access to effective math education for ELLs is one of the most important and challenging aspects in education today. ST Math removes the language barrier and provides access to standards-aligned content. Kalim Rayburn, Principal, Rea Elementary, Calif. Madison Elementary, Calif.

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Elementary Education Laptops Analysis 40

Fractus Learning

JUNE 11, 2021

Use Zeemaps annotate markers to identify newsworthy hot spots, historical sites, places of interest, information for student research, or customize a map for the classroom from students’ bucket list must-see locations. Students can add photos, links, and information related to locations to visit. Best For Beginners: My Maps.

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Tools Analysis Software Android 64

techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

And writing students at every level who are inspired by engaging prompts and able to share, collaborate, and access support and informative texts are happier too. The highlighting informs the Post-it note reflecting her analysis, which was included in her essay. The teetering stacks of papers waiting to be graded are gone.

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Laptops Khan Academy iPad Google 65

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. A second prong of individualized direct instruction, informed by the data provided from those “games,” was rounded out by a third rotation—reading books of their choosing at their level. Now they do.

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Robotics Sony Student Data Privacy Outcomes 109

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

But I’m talking about the research tool for Google Books that gives you access to millions of titles that are in the public domain. For a social studies teacher, a history teacher, who needs to give his or her student a little more access to historical articles and books, that’s a great resource. Now there’s an eBook option.

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Study Tools Google Course 197

Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? However, some elementary schools prefer that homeroom teachers hand out the Chromebooks in class. With just one click, obtain your Chromebook information in the system to then easily distribute. As a result, only some grades or classes have access to the devices.

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Chromebook Software Libraries Elementary 52

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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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Given the educational and economic divide between rural and nonrural America, this may be the most important college access program you’ve never heard of. Lawrence County, Tennessee, where its three high schools recently joined a college access effort that is closing the rural-nonrural education gap.

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How To Education Report Accessibility 142

Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most don’t have informed opinions (so I’m happy to share mine with them). High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. If you only had six laptops in your classroom, how would you best utilize them? One extremely fun kindergarten teacher utilized every bit of technology she had access to.

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Laptops Blended Learning iPad STEM 40

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

Back in episode 216, I spoke with Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project about how educators can be informed media consumers and advocates for truth. Now we’re ready to do a deeper exploration into how we can support students in information literacy. Illuminate the people behind the information that’s shared.

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Mobility Laptops Video Accessibility 98