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5 Reasons the iPad is Still Relevant to SLPs

SpeechTechie

It seemed like a big iPhone and I wasn't sure it would take off. Raised screens laptop-style promotes faces-in-screens. This is supremely easy to do with an iPad (and hand sanitizer) and not so much with a laptop. laptop) and the iPad at my disposal! When the iPad came out in 2010, I was skeptical. Pass-and-play.

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PASCO Motion Sensor–A Must for Science Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

Their products are wireless, Bluetooth- and/or USB-connectable, and their SPARKvue software runs on Mac and Windows platforms, Chromebooks, iPads, iPhones, and Android. In fact, it took me less than five minutes to unbox, setup, find the power button, and sync to the free app/software on my laptop and my iPhone.

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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

Edsurge

The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million. She credits her time at Stanford for giving her the confidence to see herself as a potential founder—and the practical skills to start a company. “I She called her startup Piazza. One of those issues was student privacy.

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Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?

MindShift

” Recently, the California state teachers’ pension fund weighed in — as a large investor in Apple, the makers of the iPhone. In an open letter, along with another activist shareholder, they called on the company to study digital distraction among youth and to make it easier to limit young people’s use.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class. Most had the lecture slides up on their laptops or iPads, or were using paper notebooks and pens.

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Easy, painless ways to help your kids with their homework

Neo LMS

To be certain your child is using technology for learning and not just pretending to do homework while surfing YouTube, you could create a dedicated (and restricted) homework device, like an old smartphone or a refurbished laptop.

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

Edsurge

These days, fingerprint scanners and cameras are regular parts of school life—on the ceilings watching students walk, and on their laptops analyzing their facial expressions. And cameras have moved from hallways to classrooms, with technology and security companies actively marketing them to schools.

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