The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2018

Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 laptops. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 4, 2020

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. She also held leadership positions at McKinsey & Company and DuPont and is a member of Women in High Tech.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. She also held leadership positions at McKinsey & Company and DuPont and is a member of Women in High Tech.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Using device-agnostic software called Neverware, districts are breathing new life into old laptops. When Waller Independent School District of Waller, Texas, decided to start upgrading its laptops and desktops to Windows 7 in 2014, the district had one big concern: time. We wound up with 14-second boot-up times.”. Fountain of youth.

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Laptops Chromebook Software Google 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

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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Laptops Smartphone Course E-rate 206

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Since February 2019, those three rideshare companies have raised at least $65 million in venture capital, and together employ more than 200 people. The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. The company still plans to expand further into those markets.

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Company Comparison Laptops Groups 138

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Such training sessions are a good way for teachers to stay up to date with the latest teaching methodologies, technologies, or trends, and learn new strategies for addressing common classroom challenges. To effectively implement interactive content in the classroom, it is important to have a complete hardware and software solution.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Without reliable access to the internet and devices like laptops or cell phones, college students probably aren’t going to succeed in online learning. While some students haven’t had full access to computers or the internet, others have discovered that their laptops are too old or too slow to adequately handle the tools they’ve been assigned.

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EdTech Survey Laptops Online Learning 161

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Once live, users can extend their “classic” digital signage content to desktop computers, laptops and tablets, with each Express Player solution licensed based on the size of the organization. Having our Carousel channels embedded into our company website allows TriOak employees to quickly log in and look at our signage content at any time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The good news is that corporate leaders don’t need to look far for inspiration, as some companies have already gotten started, including Microsoft’s partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council to deliver technology for education projects, or Google’s push to expand technological access for underserves communities. The result?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

So besides packing their bags, laptops, agendas and passports, teachers can do a little extra something: their pre conference homework. The best strategy is to prioritize according to what is most important. A simple way to tackle this task is to divide products or companies into lists, according to what is more relevant.

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Conference Gamification Examples LMS 236

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both.

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Digital Divide Broadband Report Accessibility 217

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

” The 1:1 initiative aimed for districts to issue each student a laptop for use in-school and at home. For some districts, the cost per student quickly became unrealistic to initially implement, leading schools to create alternate strategies. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We track our health with wearable wristbands, our smartphones are basically pocket-sized laptops capable of doing and finding what we need within seconds, and the majority of our communication channels have turned digital. 73 percent are dissatisfied with their school’s digital strategy. A third of U.S.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

Much of what I’ve heard has been about ST Math , but many of these strategies are applicable to any program or situation. DMPS distributed nearly 21,000 laptop computers to students throughout Des Moines during two weeks in mid-April. Supporting Students and Families. Staying Connected. My son thinks the world of his teacher.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The third piece around tech integration is really finding the partnerships that matter , whether that is with a company like CDW that can really get you what you need when you need it, or whether that is finding another peer that you can trust. CDW VV2 Strategy. It's impossible as a tech director to stay abreast of everything.

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Technology EdTech Conference Laptops 272

Digital Promise

JUNE 11, 2019

Doing away with screen time is not only unrealistic for my life, but it’s also a double standard in a home where the two adults use their laptops and mobile phones for a substantial amount of work and play. Strategies for Handling an Imperfect System. Finding Balance. There are no screens while we’re eating or before bed time.

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Learning EdTech Video Outcomes 279

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

They give companies another reason to stop relying principally on academic degrees when hiring, since candidates who are Black are less likely than white candidates to have one , according to the U.S. Caitlin Storhaug, director of global recruiting communications, McKinsey & Company. Steve Yadzinski, Jobs for the Future.

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Company Assessment Report Gamification 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Data’s influence on modern education is immense; it drives policies, impacts funding—it even affects decisions about which tools and services edtech companies create for educators. Below, Rambo shares her thoughts on education innovation, including her newest tool for edtech companies. What’s fueling innovation in schools right now?

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Trends EdTech Data Tools 72

techlearning

JULY 16, 2018

Headquartered in London, pi-top is a fast growing education technology company with sites in Austin, Texas; and Shenzhen, China. Starting PBL: 15 Strategies To Help You With A New PBL Idea, Part 1 ] At the age of 26 Jesse Lozano set up pi-top from his living room with his co-founder Ryan Dunwoody (then aged 23) and a sum of £3,000.

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Laptops Software Company Strategy 41

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 8, 2020

And instead of using a school bus, students use technologies like laptops, iPads, and digital platforms like Zoom and Schoology to come to their teachers. The Journal continually updates their list of eLearning tools that companies are providing free of charge while schools are closed which you can find here.

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Schoology Learning Secondary Laptops 135

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Instructional Technology Coaches can be helpful advisors for teachers if they learn strategies of encouragement and empowerment. Deb transformed her classroom into a blended learning environment using her class website as a launchpad, as well as laptops and iPads with her students daily.

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Classroom Blended Learning Company Twitter 191

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Swanson says she was drawn to Slack because of the role the company is playing in changing how people communicate with technology. One challenge of being at a fast-growing company, she says, is making sure information about how things work is maintained and shared as new employees quickly come onboard. Pull Learning'.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360 , a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded and led a wide range of digital companies over the past twenty years, and the list of business and charitable boards on which he serves is long. But the phones aren’t the problem.

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Study Assistive Technology Data Course 146

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 79

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The husband-and-wife duo behind the company, Aparna and Deepak Ramanathan, come from different backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Students can see right away whether they did something correctly, and they are prevented from practicing strategies incorrectly because these tools let them know when they’re off track. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 80

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

If that works at companies like Google and Apple, the same mindset should be in schools.”. The digital media classroom includes eight high-end Dell laptops with Adobe Creative Suite for students to edit video, as well as a sound studio and a wall painted green to serve as a green screen. CDW VV2 Strategy. Content Subtype.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

A few weeks ago Schoology , an educational technology company based in New York City, approached me and wanted to hear my views on technology. Provide any educator that wants to attend a variety of free learning experiences complete with applicable strategies and ideas that can be used either as a teacher, administrator, or parent.

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Schoology Conference Laptops EdTech 260

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. The new strategy aimed to alleviate the social and emotional needs of students. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

Educators ought to build good relationships with vendors, she added, noting that her laptop provider drove down to Louisiana from Austin, Texas to help their team. We have to invest more in security, but we also have to be connected around a strategy about how we manage our data.” Scale to the worst.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we took notes on our $2000 laptops, those stats seemed too far off. As video technology continues to improve and virtual learning environments begin to rival in-person options, a growing number of companies will provide new pathways for learners to acquire a variety of skills, from machine learning and management to piano and parenting.

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EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 161

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Companies like Amazon and Facebook have systems that continually respond to how users interact with their apps to make the user experience easier. What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? Maybe it made them chuckle, who knows the exact reason.

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Education Course Facebook System 101

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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Kaplan Training Report Survey 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. Trish Torizzo, chief information officer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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