Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Todd Brekhus’ industry experience dates as far back as the early 2000s at PLATO, and later at myON. The company that I started, myON , helped to transform literacy in the classroom with unlimited books, and it continues to deliver on its promise. When it comes to devices, many kids today have access to iPads or Chromebooks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

You will find yourself most comfortable in the Google Classroom environment if the tools you use are aligned with Google Drive, your browser of choice is Chrome, and your digital device is a Chromebook. parent-teacher contact book –send private notes to all or some parents. It doesn’t allow a lot of customization.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last September, the company tapped Good Harbor Partners, a Boston firm that advises on business transactions in the education technology industry, to explore strategic and financial opportunities for the company. The company initially developed LightSail for iPads before adding compatibility with Chromebooks and Android devices.)

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 30, 2015

It is essential for me to have a Chromebook Flip , bag from Griffin , and Internet On The Go MiFi for school and outside projects. It is useful for my learning because it will be able to store all of my supplies (pens, pencils, books, binders, and a laptop among other things) to and from school. The cloud is my best friend!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

S/he invites students to join with a game pin, which they enter into pretty much any digital device used in the classroom (smart phones, Chromebooks, iPads, or another). The teacher creates a quiz or survey on the Kahoot website. They read the questions off the class screen and answer on their device.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Add pages, subpages, add images and diagrams for easier understanding, edit your notes, scribble something on top of your notes, create reference guides, reminders, and books. He is passionate about new, emerging tech in the industry. More about tech platforms and hardware: Chromebooks in the Classrooms–Friend or Foe?

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Like it or not, your children will have to spend a significant portion of their time outside of school studying, writing essays, and hitting the books. There’s plenty of room to spread out papers and books as well, and 4 integrated shelves in the legs of the desk. To make the job easier, a great study desk for teens is essential.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And I know that when people think of Adobe, they tend to think when we ask, you know, PDFs, Photoshop, or our creative cloud tools, which are really, you know, pricey creative tools that industry professionals use. So some have Chromebooks, some have PC, some have Macs. So what does the teacher in their classroom do?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

ASU+GSV Summit , now in its eighth year, has assembled yet another potent cocktail of education industry stakeholders from different walks of life. What’s indisputable is that Chromebooks currently dominate; more than 40 percent of respondents say that’s the device of choice in the classrooms, followed by PC laptops (17 percent).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies). Subscribe to their blog.

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The Electric Educator

JULY 2, 2016

The Chromebook Classroom by John R. Sowash For the past year I have been working on my first book - The Chromebook Classroom. I'm excited to announce the launch of the book and provide readers of my blog an opportunity to download a free excerpt! The Chromebook launched in 2009, and it was horrible!

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

OCTOBER 20, 2023

It’s sometimes known as “addition by subtraction” Higher education as an “industry” thrives on the opposite — addition by addition — taking existing structures, policies, programs and so on and, when they no longer work as intended, we add to them. You want to assign five books?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Laptops and Chromebooks tend to play best with Google Docs and Sheets, which is what we will be using to facilitate some of our work together. He also is the co-editor of the book, What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media. Participant device prerequisites. Shift Happens).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 Many school districts said they did not attempt to negotiate prices with Apple.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 19, 2015

Whispercast distributes eBooks, eTextbooks, apps, documents, and eTextbook rentals to hundreds or thousands of devices already deployed in schools, including Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, iOS, Android, Chromebooks, Macs, and PCs. With Whispercast 3.0,

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techlearning

JUNE 28, 2018

Adobe Spark in the Classroom If you haven’t used the Spark tools before they are totally free, intuitive creation tools for students, professionals, and creatives in any industry. You can use it for virtual exit slips or to capture book quotes. All of the Spark tools are accessible on a web browser, so they are Chromebook-friendly.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 16, 2017

His traditional resume failed to document the thousands of hours that he spent online in self-taught learning about the automotive industry. Similarly, my graphic artist husband has realized that he has a love for industrial design and machining. The problem? All information is private and can be deleted at any time.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

A year later, in their second grade, Google launched the first Chromebooks. Being connected, as is required to get iPads and Chromebooks up and running, is assumed. It’s hard to make a case that there is still a separate edtech industry. They went into first grade when Apple was rolling out the first iPad, in 2010.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 29, 2019

This post is sponsored by Times 10 publications, publisher of Sanée Bell’s new book, Be Excellent On Purpose, Intentional Strategies for Impactful Leadership. In addition to his work in schools, Richard has been a consultant to some of the largest companies in the educational technology industry. All editorial content is my own.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

The series provides grade-appropriate literary, science and social studies content and each book contains a text at a higher level with extra support to expedite students’ achievement. Hardware Acer ( www.acer.com ) has launched a new Chromebook and Chromebox for education and commercial customers and a new Chromebook for retail.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 4, 2017

Over 500 educators took part in the Teacher Leadership Certificate program launched in the Spring, the Book Study program launched in the Fall, and the just-in-time courses launched before the end of the year. Approximately 25,000 books reached teachers’ hands through various channels, including kindle ebooks.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

FOLLETT BOOK FAIR EXPANSION ( www.follettlearning.com ) Follett announced its book fair business is expanding for the 2018-19 school year to offer fairs focused for early childhood (PreK-1) and middle school (grades 6-8). Spectrum Industries Inc. SECOND NATURE LEARNING QWERTYTOWN 2.0 ( qwertytown.com ) QwertyTown 2.0

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CDI COMPUTER DEALERS CHROMEBOOK TRADE-IN PROGRAM ( cdicomputers.com ) CDI Computer Dealers has launched a Chromebook Trade-In Program that provides a hassle-free, environmentally-friendly way for schools to dispose of their aging Chromebooks and obtain a free two-year premium extended warranty on the new ones purchased from CDI.

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MindShift

JANUARY 2, 2018

Observing a group of students conversing deeply as a team, checking resources on a Chromebook, presenting solutions to a problem in a project, or responding to open ended questions, you might ask yourself: What the heck is going on? By Thom Markham. Is this learning? In times past, this was an easy question to answer.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 25, 2018

The traditional industrial, uncomfortable metal furniture doesn’t add to the beauty, nor is it flexible. We all learn best when we’re comfortable—when our backs don’t hurt and our legs aren’t cramped and we have plenty of space for our book or tablet or laptop or paper. It’s like a little prison,” Hare says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alex Seage built a career leading technology and innovation in the cruise industry, which also provided him with a deep understanding of the technology needed to improve the experience for cruise guests. Nominee: Alex Seage, Christopher Columbus High School Nominated by: Samsung Electronics America.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. The ratio of children to Chromebooks, in grades three through five, is one to one. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Is it important to learn the most popular language in industry today? I have found that after a few years of using Scratch, students want to try text-based coding because they associate it with “grown ups” and the “real” coding that is done in industry. Switching languages is not immediately easy, but it can be done.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 24, 2023

Entire industries will reorient around it. ChatGPT for library programming and events: Explore creative ideas for incorporating ChatGPT into library programming, such as book clubs, writing workshops, and coding classes. He may or may not have invented an early version of the Chromebook which he demo'd to Google.

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MindShift

MARCH 24, 2019

And while it’s true that 82 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between a native advertisement and a news article, neither could 59 percent of adults in a study conducted by the advertising industry. We need to overhaul teacher education, so that new teachers feel prepared when they tell kids to open their Chromebooks.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 17, 2018

She joins her brother and his wife in their tenement apartment on the Lower East Side, and finds work in the burgeoning garment industry. Life in the garment industry is difficult and dull, and Lena seeks out other opportunities and adventures. 874-simulation book – AmericansAll.” Step 4: Users scan the URL codes to test apps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

The students learn how to use industry-approved software programs and are often granted paid internships at local design firms and research labs, and Greeley’s planning and development departments. The program tailors online books to individual student levels. They also take field trips to area manufacturing firms.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

There’s more for-profit higher ed news – and how the Trump Administration has deep, deep ties to this industry – in the for-profit higher ed section below. Or just have them read a book. It’s probably better for them than stupid worksheets on their Chromebooks. ” That’s Kelvin Droegemeier.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Edsurge’s Jeff Young and Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill both asked industry analyst Trace Urdan for his take. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” There have been several stories recently calling the Google Books project a failure.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Tressie McMillan Cottom ’s new book, Lower Ed , is now out, and you should buy it and read it. Bridget Foster has been named the head of the SIIA’s ed-tech association, the Education Technology Industry Network. Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.” ” “How the G.O.P. .”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

“Dear Mrs. Trump” by Liz Phipps Soeiro – why the librarian refused the books the First Lady sent to her school. ” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” ” “Caution: Chromebooks ,” writes Gary Stager. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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