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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources.

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Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

Everywhere I turn I see babies, toddlers and young children with tablets/ipads and smartphones. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination. Tablets give off blue light, which has been shown to disrupt sleep patterns.

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Babies and Mobile Devices. Where Are YOU on the issue?

Kevin Corbett

Everywhere I turn I see babies, toddlers and young children with tablets/ipads and smartphones. Nor, it seems, do a number of advocacy groups that want it pulled off the market because they think iPads and babies are a dangerous combination. Tablets give off blue light, which has been shown to disrupt sleep patterns.

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TCEA 2011 Legislative Update Advocacy Panel

EdTechSandyK

Much smaller than the in-person mobilization to register the same number of people. Are tablets ready? Get PTA and booster clubs to mobilize. Teachers need to be professionally developed as well to equip staff to move towards this. Strama: Developed the first technology to help people register to vote over the Internet.

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A Tiny Microbe Upends Decades of Learning

The Hechinger Report

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has distributed some 100,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, for instance, sent home about 80,000 tablets and other mobile devices, and more than 11,000 smartphones that double as Wi-Fi hot spots. “For

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The district lacked a system for tracking how many students weren’t logging on to classes for lack of a working computer, tablet or internet connection at home. “We

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

COLLABORATE Space provides persistent space to store messages, documents, whiteboards, recordings, meeting minutes, or anything else exchanged on a specific topic or project during a call or meeting at anytime, and is accessible from any device, whether it be a mobile, desktop, or room appliance. announced the U.S. Spectrum Industries Inc.

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