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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community. Furthermore, in May 2013, they obtained a certification in Gamification through Coursera Course Certificates. 8 Important Generative AI Use Cases in the.

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K–12 Districts Prepare Students for Careers in the Tech-Dominated Economy

EdTech Magazine

The district’s Career Readiness program, part of the formal ­curriculum, offers 130 courses, many of which prepare students for high-tech jobs or for working with modern office technology. The district has mobile ­computer labs in all schools and provides Samsung Chromebooks and Lenovo ThinkPads loaded with Google Apps for Education.

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School STEM Labs Inspire Students, Power Innovation

EdTech Magazine

That commitment includes building state-of-the-art labs at its middle and high schools, where students can work on projects as part of their engineering courses or after-school clubs. Charlottesville standardized on Lenovo ThinkCentre All-In-One desktop computers in its middle and high school tech labs. “We

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Open Thread Wednesday: Revisiting Travel Computing

ProfHacker

Choosing a new computer for travel has gotten more complicated thanks to the range of options, from the affordable Chromebooks (which Jason tested and Amy converted to Linux ) to the ubiquitous Macbook Air to the Windows Surface and other hybrids. My current solution is the Yoga 2 Pro , Lenovo’s version of the hybrid tablet / PC.

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Analysis: Is Higher Ed Ready for the Tech Expectations of the Teens of 2022?

Edsurge

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. In 2017—the last full year for which it publicly released numbers— Futuresource Consulting estimated that Chromebooks had 58.3 Source: Futuresource Consulting 1.

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