Tom Murray
JANUARY 12, 2016
From Providence, Rhode Island to Phoenix, Arizona, I’ve had the privilege to travel and work with over 2,300 district leaders from almost 500 school districts over the past year through the Future Ready Initiative. As districts became more in tune with these issues in 2015, the move to Chromebooks continued to grow.
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APRIL 1, 2021
They have tutorials and eLearning resources for teachers here and are also Chromebook-compatible. is light, portable, and WiFi-ready. Much of this has to do with fluctuating learning priorities where critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a future-ready, tech-savvy student body are given precedence.
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Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2018
A critical realization, though, came when I used our district’s gradebook system to send messages home about projects and classroom activities. We planned to educate parents about internet safety, digital citizenship and Chromebook management. However, long-term community-building is rarely that simple.
Tom Murray
JUNE 8, 2016
Districts that are working to purchase devices must not do so simply because the district across the highway just implemented a particular type of device within its system. Quite often, very few, if any, school leaders have a comprehensive understanding of what resources are in place system-wide.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
That can leave parents and educators feeling a sense of anxiety about technology and kids, even as more schools use iPads and Chromebooks and other tech in classrooms. We’ll be starting to help with the development of this in Illinois in the coming year through Chicago Public Library and a couple other library systems out there.
eSchool News
MAY 31, 2017
And more schools are incorporating mobile tablets and smartphones into their curriculum [read about the staggering growth of Chromebook implementation here ]. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ].
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
We talk about how the low pay that so many teachers live with creates a system where they’re forced out of their jobs because they can’t afford to live in the cities in which they teach. One of the trends in education today is the adoption of new technologies in schools—like brand new Chromebooks and iPads. I wanted it to be calm.
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