Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

million in funds to provide 1,528 laptops, tablets, and devices, as well as 869 hotspots for local students. The Kansas City Public Library system made open-access WiFi available 24 hours a day in the parking lots of all branch locations. By May, they had deployed more than $1.5 It truly has been a collaborative approach.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 22, 2024

How Interactive Textbooks Transform a Students’ Learning Experience Makes Content Easily Accessible Fosters Personalization Embeds Multimedia Adds a Touch of Gamification Fosters Interactive Learning Promotes Timely Assessments Promotes Immersive Learning III. KITABOO enables you to create and publish interactive, media-rich textbooks.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Another tool is ViewSonic Originals , an extensive library of interactive content, educational games, and materials, that teachers can tap into when planning upcoming classes. To effectively implement interactive content in the classroom, it is important to have a complete hardware and software solution.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

To streamline in-house maintenance for IT staff, consider school projectors with convenient software updates via USB and laptop. When purchasing a projector for school, remember to assess your requirements in relation to the 5 key factors. Begin by assessing the room size and ambient lighting.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In a fairly short time, amazing innovations like iPads, laptops, and smartphones have opened up a new world of information for students of all ages. On the one hand, teachers may write assessments, or give audio or visual files regarding student performances directly to them. Take a look at our complete guide here.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Comprehensive planning Planning is essential to the success of any technology upgrade, and planning well ahead gives school districts time to assess current technology needs and goals for the future. The right partner can also assess the residual value of retired devices and offer schools a return on their investments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2019

A School License is a multi-user PDF of most books (or videos where available) we offer–textbooks, curricula, lesson plans, student workbooks, and more–that can be used on every digital device in your school–iPads, Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, laptops, netbooks, smartphones, iPods. As many as the school wants.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

This endeavor highlighted the importance of connectivity, leading us to explore creative solutions such as providing hotspots or utilizing the local library and extension offices for internet connections. We explore options like securing grant funding to enable students to check out technology from schools, such as laptops.

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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 such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

Families have, for years, parked outside of businesses that offer free Wi-Fi or taken their children to libraries to find a way to complete assignments that do require the internet. Schools have gotten creative, sending students home with Wi-Fi enabled devices or hotspots that let students connect their own laptops to the internet.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

KITABOO is one of the best digital tools for the classroom because its content is designed for bite-sized learning with knowledge nuggets, interactive assessments and gamification. The platform facilitates instant assessments and feedback so teachers can stay connected to their pupils in real-time. REQUEST DEMO READ MORE.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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MSEDTechie

JANUARY 26, 2015

The website allows you to assess students’ learning in a fun and engaging way, and it is very simple to use. Students can use computers, laptops and mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones. This online game website allows you to create your own template online, or browse their library for templates made by others.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 8, 2020

This easy-to-use app lets students record themselves reading aloud on their laptop, Chromebook, or tablet, from the comfort of their own home, and then send it to their teacher for feedback.”. Teachers can pick from the pre-selected library of over 500 leveled reading passages, based on content, Lexile level or reading age.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. 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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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” Then there was the iPad. Globally, edtech spending is predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. Students sign on to iPads, desktops, Chromebooks, or laptops with a link code provided by the teacher.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. Quickly connect to a PC, laptop, or tablet to begin benefiting from the expansive universe of online educational apps and content. The post Jumpstart Engagement With Interactive Whiteboard Classroom Technology appeared first on ViewSonic Library.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The idea for the new program was to organize Khan Academy’s online library of learning videos and problem sets into a game-like software program to help kids practice skills they need to master. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments. Published with permission.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Tagged on: July 20, 2017 Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? Tagged on: July 10, 2017 Algorithmic Assessment vs. Critical Reflection | Inside HigherEd → Achievement (grades) and learning are not always (often?) Tagged on: July 9, 2017.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. Now, Information is literally at our fingertips.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

With that in mind, here’s a guide to assess school district network needs and implement affordable broadband upgrades. The number of devices like tablets, laptops, and smartphones your network is supporting. School Network Structure. In a school environment, the two main drivers of how much network bandwidth you need are: 1.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Back in November of 2010, I wrote a response to a superintendent’s proposed elimination of school libraries in New York State. The problem with libraries is that they are anachronisms , sacred cows. To be honest, I believe that all children deserve strong school libraries with professional teacher librarians.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The stage set, I lean over and click play on my laptop to start a short video. Those who used to claim, “There isn’t anything I want to read in the library,” could suddenly access thousands of differentiated eBooks on hundreds of topics. I call them back to attention, and they share out a few examples of what they know.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Teachers don’t have to create classroom videos on different subject matters; they can use suitable videos from an online video library. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress. Khan Academy. Zoom for Education. Poll Everywhere.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 27, 2018

Flipgrid and Recap: Video Response and Reflection for Education are both great options for reimagining class discussions and formative assessment. If you're looking to encourage student discussion and self-assessment, then check out our comparison below and find out which tool is the best fit for your classroom! Winner: Flipgrid.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

When opening the app, you are presented with three options: My Library – access and launch presentations that you have created from your computer. When launching a presentation from your phone, you can navigate the presentation in much the same way as you would using your laptop. Explore – find lessons by grade level and subject area.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But, there is NOT just one right way to do library. But should a formal makerspace need to be a part of every school library? . At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

How teachers are benefitting from teaching outdoors: Jain, a high school teacher from Texas, experienced an immediate effect on her physical health and forced her to take advantage of her lunch break while her laptop finishes charging. Image via Library of Congress. schools began holding classes outdoors. More resources.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

TOOLS THEY USE MOSAIC PREPARATORY ACADEMY First in Math Fluency Tutor for Google Google Drive iPads Laptops myON Promethean boards Special education students at Raft River Schools gain skills and confidence through literacy games such as Reading Horizons’ Whack-a-Word. TOOLS THEY USE RAFT RIVER SCHOOLS Epic!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson. We hoped this tool would help us meet one of our learning goals to enhance the learning environment by increased use of innovative teaching techniques, interactive technologies, and assessment data.

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

When her middle school opened for a few minutes the next day, the seventh grade English teacher and creator of the Global Read-Aloud grabbed all the books she could from her classroom library, before the school closed for the foreseeable future. . Instagram also offers a tip sheet for creating an Instagram Live as well. .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

With the merger, all lessons and resources designed to be presented on an interactive whiteboard can now be shared across a connected classroom and sent to students’ Chromebooks, tablets, and laptops using ClassFlow. It gives learners the opportunity for interaction, engagement, and meaningful assessment with complete ease.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

They also understand that Chromebooks last as long and are as sturdy as traditional laptops and despite the myth, they realize, just like laptops, you don’t need the internet to access your core suite of tools. The negative effects of content filters on Internet access in public libraries and schools are demonstrable and documented.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 19, 2012

While the tech department is wonderful, I can''t always get into the computer lab or sign out the laptop cart. Socrative is excellent for multple choice and short answer, but for other types of assessments and activities, the technology is still evolving. Delivery is easy, but assessment via BYOD is more problematic.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. Number one skill for being successful in learning: the ability to self-assess. In library they are using stop motion technology to develop stories.

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