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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. Modern Classrooms Project will help you bring engaging, exciting teaching to your classroom with their free online course and community.

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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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Labster Raises $21 Million to Bring More Digital Lab Simulations to Classrooms

Edsurge

It so far does not work on mobile devices. One of its biggest projects to date is an online biology program built with Arizona State University, Lenovo and Google, which debuted in summer 2018. The three companies and ASU then built a series of online courses that students can use toward a bachelor’s degree in biology.

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Open Thread Wednesday: Revisiting Travel Computing

ProfHacker

It’s also worth factoring in the software and web platform favored by your institution: while more learning management systems are supporting tablets and mobile devices, updating course material and grading on the go is a lot easier on a laptop. Hardware lenovo microsoft open thread travel Windows'

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Inside Higher Ed reports that the University of California lecturers'' union has stated that it will use its collective bargaining power to block the university system''s expansion of online course offerings unless the "move to distance education is done in a fair and just way for our members." What makes this newsworthy?

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

Edsurge

This means they know a K-12 where the promise of mobile 1:1 school computing is becoming a reality. The 15-year-old today is more a sibling of cloud computing, of apps that are available from any screen, of mobile devices in many sizes and form factors that go beyond last century’s laptops. And determined. Outside of the U.S.,

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