eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Technology has opened up endless possibilities in classrooms around the world. The pandemic accelerated the adoption rates of educational technology solutions. In some cases, demand far outstripped supply, leading to backlogs of requests for laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other school-issued devices.

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Vizor

JANUARY 29, 2024

Leverage E-rate, Title I, and other federal & state funds Make sure you take advantage of various funding sources available for technology in education. IDEA ensures children with disabilities have access to free and appropriate education, services, and resources including technology.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 19, 2019

I have already written a post about working with PDFs on a Chromebook. I have also written about creating eBooks on Chromebooks. PDF Flipbook Viewer or dFlip Reader has the power of modern 3D web technology which can be used to showcase your reports, portfolio, and brochures in a stunning flipbook effect.

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Securly

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducted a study on the correlation between test performance and technology usage in the classroom. Ask questions that assess how a leader integrates and dictates technology into his/her projects and to those he/she leads. Digitally Mature Leaders .

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In December 2010, The Journal –“t he leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education”– published an article with a 5-prong prediction for the following year. These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Join us to learn how to plan and execute an instructional technology strategy that supports your digital learning needs. About the Speakers: CHRISTIE BOEN - Christie Boen is the Instructional Technology Coach and District Librarian at Bend-La Pine School District in Oregon. Watch the on-demand webinar here.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

Today, MDR, a division of Dun & Bradstreet, released the second in its State of the K-12 Market Report 2018 series, Teachers Talk Technology , creating a snapshot of how teachers across the country are using classroom technology. Teachers shared their views on both the benefits and challenges of using technology for learning.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JULY 25, 2020

This where technology comes in. Technology is the answer to this problem in a socially distanced classroom. Just think at some of the ways technology from home could help maintain social distancing. I have written many blog posts in the past about using technology in the classroom. STEM on a Chromebook , .

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

FREE Webinar | September 13, 2018 | 3:00 PM EDT Join us to learn how to plan and execute an instructional technology strategy that supports your digital learning needs. Discover how to prioritize goals and implement a strategy to meet the reading needs of your students and maintain critical efficiencies and measures for your educators.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 1, 2016

April 30, 2016 Mirroring360 Sender is a good application for teachers using Chromebooks with their students. It is also ideal for 1:1 or BYOD classrooms. Mirroring360 allows you to mirror your.read more.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 23, 2012

You can use Microsoft Office or LibreOffice on an iPad , Android Tablet, Chromebook or any device with a web browser. This makes things platform/OS agnostic and would allow everyone access to these apps and resources and would be especially useful in a BYOT/BYOD environment. This is very useful for the Chromebooks.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 18, 2013

A pedagogically sound BYOD lesson in English where an equitable environment was created using both student and school-owned technology. A History teacher having students use Socrative on Chromebooks. Picture from recent walk: BYOD and equity (student + school owned tech) I think you get the point.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

When students want to do quick research on a topic, look up a word, run a calculation, or review a concept, they can hop on a cell phone much faster than logging into a Chromebook or laptop. Finally, cell phones have become a small version of a computer be it a laptop, Chromebook, or iPad (especially an iPad). More on cell phone usage.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 22, 2017

The device is usually offered by the school, but with the spread of BYOD programs, this no longer stands true all the time. The concept of 1:1 has been around for quite a while, but didn’t quite catch on until recently, the major driver behind this being the increasing availability of devices and general change in education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Each week, we will share a story about how a district used technology in schools to improve something. In recent years, the district also added 50,000 Chromebooks to improve equity and support objectives for curriculum, digital citizenship, media literacy and state online testing.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

They have tutorials and eLearning resources for teachers here and are also Chromebook-compatible. These methods can be diverse: face-to-face, flipped classroom, eLearning, remote learning, and more, but they all require technology to reap the benefits of a connected learning environment. The XP-Pen Star G640 is Chromebook compatible.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

teachers were stressed out about logging in to the point where some would just give up on using technology and go back to their regular pen and paper process. In his 16 years of working in IT, Tam Nguyen has grown uncomfortably familiar with these types of calls and the resulting reluctance of teachers to adopt new technologies.

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District Administration

DECEMBER 1, 2015

But, the expansion of 1-to-1 and BYOD initiatives, flipped classrooms, and anytime-anywhere learning has created a variety of management challenges. Administrators are faced with managing a proliferation of laptops, smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks and other devices with small staffs and limited budgets.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 14, 2018

Through the development of their 1:1, BYOD and Chromebook cart model, Medfield has increased their adoption of G Suite in a variety of both practical and creative ways. From including research around the beauty, history, culture and geography, Google tools are the technology foundation to make the project possible.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MARCH 4, 2019

What I would like to focus on in this post is how technology can be used to support Thinking Routines and Making Thinking Visible. I will then discuss specific technology tools and how they can be used as an authentic part of the Thinking Routines. Thinking Routines. Thanks for reading. Dr. Shannon H.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 19, 2015

" Unless you get instructional design right, technology can only increase the speed and certainty of failure " - William Horton As budgets expand or money becomes available at the end of a school year, the knee jerk reaction of many schools is to go all in and spend it as quickly as possible.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Our vision for her was to provide meaningful learning opportunities for our students while supporting teachers in the process of effective technology and media literacy integration. Worked with the IT department to develop a procedure to sign out Chromebooks for any student to use throughout the school day as part of our BYOD initiative.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MARCH 21, 2014

Since it is web-browser based, Curriculet can be used on any device or computer which is a must for my BYOD, 1:1 one day a week with Chromebooks classroom. By increasing the frequency with which we read online, the students will perform better because they are more comfortable with the technology.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 13, 2019

While I enjoy face-to-face discussions, I noticed something interesting taking place in the technology facilitated online discussion. Technology to enhance and extend classroom discussions. This is where I believe technology facilitated discussions can be used by educators to take the discussions happening in the classroom further.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation in Indiana offers BYOD as an option to accompany 1:1. It should not be a technology department initiative,” says Paul Sanfrancesco, director of technology for Pennsylvania’s Owen J. You need buy-in, with curriculum, and technology teams working together.”

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

The students read the text at home or in school on smartphones, tablets, Chromebooks, or computers, answering questions and quizzes embedded in the text to check their understanding. So our mid to end of week activities featured BYOD, paper, and face to face tasks. To see the student view, watch this quick video.

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Reading By Example

APRIL 16, 2016

Technology in schools is a neutral resource. Only when technology is employed by the teacher to serve as part of the learning experience does it have any impact, positive or otherwise. I bring this up because the debate about the promise and perils of technology in schools continues to float around online.

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Reading By Example

APRIL 16, 2016

Technology in schools is a neutral resource. Only when technology is employed by the teacher to serve as part of the learning experience does it have any impact, positive or otherwise. I bring this up because the debate about the promise and perils of technology in schools continues to float around online.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Here are some of the most recent winners: School District 51 (CO) students scored 9,000 new Chromebooks for the next school year. The new computers are one of the most noticeable changes among several technology updates taking place while school’s out for the summer. The Chromebooks and charging carts were purchased with $3.18

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Dr. Shannon Doak

APRIL 17, 2019

This is where technology can help! In my last post titled Extending Classroom Discussions with Technology, I introduced Synth as a tool used to continue discussions started in class, however, It can be used for so much more! This is because there is no other person at home to practice the language with.

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The Mobile Native

MAY 19, 2013

This year''s topics include project-based learning, assistive technologies, Common Core State Standards, Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT), and the open content revolution. Mobile Learning Experience 2013 will also address other devices like laptops, Chromebooks, and Android tablets. BYOD BYOT Mobile Learning'

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. The forthcoming Horizon Report thinks BYOD is one of the two major tech trends for 2016.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 11, 2015

Technology is always a topic that comes up on an administrative panel: what do you do with ed tech during the first 30 days on the job, on the first 60 days on the job, on the first 90 days on the job? The Edison School district is in the midst of a digital conversation, and they are going 1:1 with Chromebooks in grades 3-8.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

He is an Adobe Creative Educator, a CoSN Certified Education Technology Leader, an Adjunct Professor of Teacher Education at Ramapo College, and a founding member of the Adobe Creativity Crew. I can see we're BYOD. So some have Chromebooks, some have PC, some have Macs. Vicki Davis Yeah. She just doesn't ever, some have iPads.

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techlearning

APRIL 15, 2018

Aruba today announced that Klein ISD, a rapidly-growing school district in Klein, Texas, has completed a three-year, district-wide technology refresh built upon the Aruba Mobile First Architecture. The district has issued 34,000 devices for intermediate and high school students – a mix of Chromebooks and Windows laptops.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 17, 2017

And as the long-term poor relation, math is now facing an even bigger threat to its popularity in the classroom – technology. But the benefits of technology haven’t been enjoyed equally across all subjects. There have been many efforts to introduce technology into math classes as well.

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