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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

Every Earth Day (April 22, 2023 this year–see our previous article on Earth Day Class Activities ) someone in your school, maybe the parent group, raises the question of WHY NOT a paperless classroom? They don’t need to meet in a physical location or call each other on the phone. Really, though: Why not?

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Lockstep Technology Group Partners with Impero Software to Support Students’ Tech

eSchool News

Managed solutions provider Lockstep Technology Group and student safety leader Impero have partnered to offer Impero’s solutions to Lockstep’s partner schools, including tools to support student safety, classroom management, network administration, and web filtering, and to better support students’ technology use.

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How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center

EdTech Magazine

Frequently, the media center is also the most public space for the community , where school meetings, board meetings and PTO meetings are held. Cocoon zones: Modern learning environments should reflect the ways students use them, supporting group projects as well as individual study time. That’s a great model to follow.

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How to direct a districtwide tech transformation on a budget

eSchool News

I gave our technology department marching orders to get every student and every teacher on a Chromebook and trained in the Google Suite within two weeks. We also have Chromebooks for every student and 3D printers and interactive whiteboards in our classrooms. Some teachers also felt like we were telling them how to teach.

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We Know How Much Planning Time Teachers Get on Average. Is It Enough?

Edsurge

That’s partly because Robert can count on needing to take care of any number of other tasks that might need his attention, like participating in a meeting about a student having behavioral issues. Now your class size is 25-to-1, but kids need 10-to-1 or 5-to-1, where they work in small groups all day,” he says. “I

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In the wake of Chromebooks, education needs to focus on collaboration

eSchool News

Lately, technology additions in classrooms have focused on providing each student with his or her own laptop; for many schools, it’s become the new normal to issue every student a Chromebook. At the same time, the screen-focused atmosphere has stunted the growth of small-group collaboration in classrooms.

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How Modern Learning Environments Support Numerous Pedagogies

EdTech Magazine

And with fast Wi-Fi, students can access G Suite for Education and other cloud-based educational apps on their Chromebooks. We have more group-based learning going on, but we also accommodate individual instruction. Chromebooks, Wi-Fi and AV Equipment Enhance Learning . Our goal is to enhance learning, and it works.