eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Library media specialists and IT teams can work toward a common mission. As purveyors of digital learning materials and research, library media specialists are aligning with their IT departments to help create dynamic, engaging hubs for students and instructors. At Henrico County Public Schools in Henrico, Va.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New resources demonstrate libraries’ need for ed-tech partners. Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, is offering three new science products for academic and school libraries. Access through computers, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards or a projector.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2021

But first there will be DLAC, the Digital Learning Annual Conference , set for June 14 to 16 in Austin, Texas—with a parallel track running online. It’s what’s known as a “hybrid” conference, blending both live and virtual elements similar to how many schools slowly filtered back to full-time learning last fall.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The metaverse is most commonly associated with extended reality technology (virtual reality and augmented reality), as well as with social media capabilities and the use of digital avatars controlled by users. Additionally, the use of avatars within the metaverse delivers something akin to student-centered learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Hotspots Heat Up In the past week, many internet service providers, responding to the Federal Communications Commission’s “ Keep Americans Connected ” pledge, are waiving late fees for existing customers and increasing data caps for mobile hotspots, which link devices such as laptops to smartphones to provide internet access for both devices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere. The latest Lenovo Education portfolio includes new laptops, running Windows 11 or ChromeOS, built to help students and teachers embrace next-level hybrid learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

More than 99 percent of schools nationwide have access to speedy and reliable internet, making online learning an option for their students. School buildings are closed because of coronavirus, and the bandwidth that powered digital learning for kids is going unused. Only, now it doesn’t matter.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Expansion of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program to include additional student connectivity and teacher professional development for Title I schools. The platform will feature an evolving library of courses to further develop educators’ digital literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. And he remembers battery life on those laptops lasting just an hour. Their plan seems to have worked.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

I only have to dig out my laptop when I need to write instead of just read. Die-hard believers of print books for education are mostly arguing from a familiarity view, and the fact that textbooks are often constructed without regard to digital formatting. I don’t get it, so I started poking around.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

When teens enter The Mix at the San Francisco Public Library, 19-year-old Dayra Banales is quick to step up and offer a tour, walking visitors past a row of new computers and through studios filled with video and audio equipment. The Mix is a new 4,770-square-foot digital media center on the second floor of the city’s main library.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The best digital tools for the classroom are the ones that provide an easy interface, facilitate collaborations, simplify communication between students and teachers, offer quick analytics for administrators, and are cost-efficient. Best Digital Learning Tools for Future-Ready Classrooms. Digital Publishing / July 3, 2018.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

Today, students register painlessly from their dorm, home, or anywhere with their laptop or smartphone. And that is what students now expect, since digital services have practically eliminated standing in line anywhere. I’d fret that my longed-for Shakespeare class would close-out by the time I finally reached the front of the line.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

The e-books will be readable on e-readers, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices. “This partnership is illustrative of Amazon Education’s overall commitment to making connected classrooms a reality by helping students and educators with the transition to digital learning,” Amazon said in a statement.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 3, 2018

School board members play an important role in school districts’ ability to improve the level and quality of digital learning opportunities in the classroom. The number of devices like tablets, laptops, and smartphones your network is supporting. This is a direct reflection of your district’s learning goals.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Suffice it to say, college students aren’t always on task or pay attention in college classes, especially those on laptops. She’s used it since 2015 to share presentations in her classes and has also taught aspiring K-12 STEM teachers how they can use Nearpod in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

The school’s one-to-one iPad program gives every student a sixth-generation iPad and every teacher a MacBook Air laptop and iPad Pro device. Students use iMacs in three digital arts labs to do sound engineering, digital animation, television production, yearbook and photography. Recommended resources from Mosyle.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 14, 2019

Chalkboards, mimeograph machines, microfiche readers, encyclopedias, 3 X 5 cards, and libraries were information platforms that were unavailable to most people outside of the school building. While laptops provide access to data, teachers provide insight—the connection of information to purpose. Classrooms were children’s IT.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

For this reason, publishers usually opt for a content delivery platform that is compatible with multiple operating systems and on different devices- be it a smartphone, tablet, laptop or a desktop computer. Create a Digital Library. Digital Schools – Are they the future? 4 E-Learning Obstacles in Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Almost no district was truly ready to plunge into remote learning full time and with no end in sight. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Related: Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Steve Kossakoski, CEO, Virtual Learning Academy in New Hampshire.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They can be placed as attachments in phishing emails or viruses inside digital libraries and other unexpected places. These include laptops, desktops, smartphones, or tablets that students use to enhance digital learning. Installing Malware. Zoombombing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Coding platforms, such as Scratch and Code.org, promote digital literacy and computational thinking. The ubiquitous presence of digital devices and technology tools in education, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones, allows students to access a wealth of educational resources and multimedia content.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Screens and digital media are everywhere, from everyday tech like TVs, phones, and gaming consoles to the laptops, tablets, Chromebooks, and other tech we use in school. Kids of all ages are consuming and producing more digital media than ever before. Of course, not all screen time is created equal.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 29, 2019

So, there’s really no point in keeping them away from digital devices. Educational institutes and publishers are using this technology to their advantage by delivering educational content on tablets and laptops. This helps them learn from their mistakes and also inculcates quick thinking and better decision-making skills.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. The thing about personalized learning is it looks very different in every district, in every school.”.

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MindShift

APRIL 8, 2020

When her middle school opened for a few minutes the next day, the seventh grade English teacher and creator of the Global Read-Aloud grabbed all the books she could from her classroom library, before the school closed for the foreseeable future. . millions of students out of school, at least until the end of April.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 31, 2020

ASU for You offers a wide array of content, much of it at no cost, for all learners — from elementary school students to adults — as well as resources for teachers and parents who are navigating teaching and learning at home. More information: Wilson: Meet 3 Indianapolis Charter School Networks That Are All In on Virtual Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2015

Cricket will provide literary and informational texts from its digital library, including content from its children’s publications, Cobblestone and Odyssey. Students can access myON at school or home on laptops, desktops, tablets, and mobile devices for an online or offline reading experience. million students world wide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Studios launched an expansion of its StoryBots franchise with StoryBots Classroom, a free resource for educators that includes hundreds of videos, books and activities for use on interactive white boards, tablets and laptops in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2015

But when it comes to more traditional needs, like writing, laptop or desktop computers are still the way to go (or so the conventional wisdom says). Kidspiration’s vast library of more than 3,000 symbols helps children plan and organize their stories using pictures to complement their words.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 16, 2016

In its 2016 National Education Technology Plan, the Department of Education emphasizes model approaches to digital learning. The most obvious addition to the plan is its focus on the “digital-use divide.” Those approaches take fuller advantage of digital media’s potential to change practices in and outside of schools.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

“We are very fortunate to have a school district that supports technology in the classroom and provides extended computer lab hours, one-to-one access to laptops and desktops, and online learning resources for teachers to enrich their curriculum and lesson plans.”. However, students may have no internet access when they get home.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

According to the most recent figures from Funds for Learning, E-Rate applicants nationwide requested almost $748 million in discounts against the purchase of just over $1 billion in Category Two products and services, which are detailed in this chart (right). Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

And depending on their background and experience, not everyone is supportive of tech-infused learning. Leaders need to make sure that lawmakers and board members see the tech plan as a long-term, sustainable project and not just a one-off purchase of laptops. Yet, 1:1 classrooms, BYOD, and tech-supported education are today’s reality.

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