Education Superhighway

JULY 23, 2018

Last summer, we highlighted Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) , a large suburban school district in Virginia that boosted their bandwidth speed from 2 to 20 Gbps to keep up with growing demands for digital learning. He’s now in middle school, but during the snow day, Shakera’s husband gave my son an old laptop.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. Tagged on: August 17, 2017 Do Laptops Help Learning? Tagged on: August 17, 2017 Do Laptops Help Learning?

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Lumio is a digital learning tool that will transform your lessons into active, collaborative learning experiences. Working with a school that is moving towards classroom laptop carts, Monica enjoys sharing Lumio since every student doesn’t need a device to make lessons engaging. Click To Tweet. Listen to this article.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2020

A couple of decades ago, when I was dean of online learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small STEM college on the Hudson with a view of mid-Manhattan, we polled our digital students about why they chose to enroll as virtual learners. Did they come to our virtual classrooms for the strength of our faculty?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ Why have a laptop policy if there is not software to go with it? But the phones aren’t the problem.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Does it make sense for you to purchase robots and drones for your school when you already have interactive displays in your classrooms and laptops for each student? If your students are differently abled, need a boost in STEM or are focused on ESL, that should be a deciding factor in how your approach classroom tech.

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Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Part of the reason for this is scale: a school with fewer students and teachers can’t always provide high-level language and STEM classes. When Superintendent Tim Farquer was faced with replacing some of the district’s outdated textbooks, he knew he couldn’t buy new materials and supply his 300 students with laptops.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Participant device prerequisites. Purpose and objectives.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

The ultimate tablet option for digital learning, the Amazon Fire Kids Edition comes with “u nlimited, free access to 10,000 kid-friendly books, movies, TV shows, educational apps, and games.” The laptop has four modes: ABC Learning, Messages, Games and Music for learning and pretend play.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Increasingly, makerspaces are helping students sustain interest in STEM fields. By the end of this week, five out of seven of the district’s public schools will have spaces filled with 3D printers, Legos, laptops, robots and more for hands-on learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ Why have a laptop policy if there is not software to go with it? But the phones aren’t the problem.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ? What are the one-, two-, and five-year goals for terms of digital learning? ? What devices do students already bring to school?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology. Lenovo announced new hardware, software and services solutions designed to inspire and enable learning anywhere.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2015

New technology offerings include convertible laptops, immersive computing. New products include two convertible laptops, the HP Spectre Pro x360 G1 Convertible PC and HP Pro x360 310 G2 Convertible PC. During ISTE 2015, HP announced new technology solutions for education that are aimed to enhance student and teacher experiences.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

inch Full HD touch displays, all Spin 5 models have a 360-degree hinge that allows four usage modes (laptop, tablet, display, and tent). Both offer learning tools such as Windows 10 Pro and a suite of Microsoft Office programs while the 2-in-1 specifically offers multiple modes to adjust to every learning need. inch or 13.3-inch

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 3, 2015

When everything works well , classroom projectors are the epicentre of the best digital learning spaces. When they don’t work well , classroom projectors are the source of endless frustration, muffled curse words and a hindrance and distraction to learning. Price: $295 (best price on Amazon). ViewSonic PJD5134 (not HD).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The district launched the program this school year, supplying 42 teachers across all grade levels and subject areas with iPad Minis, Google Chromebooks or laptops for a cost of about $475,000. They wanted to see the innovative ways educators are using such technology. “It took a lot of collaboration,” she said.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

For customers with access to 3D printers, Gale Interactive: Science also delivers sixty 3D models —everything from a human brain to a triceratops skull —which can be printed and used for learning. The product is web-based and available as an interactive 3D experience on a laptop or computer monitor.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Access through computers, laptops, tablets, interactive whiteboards or a projector. . • Guided interactive simulation lessons as well as anytime student/faculty interaction with models. • An easy-to-use, intuitive interface available via web and mobile. Accessible through multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, or IE). •

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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. Suffice it to say, college students aren’t always on task or pay attention in college classes, especially those on laptops.

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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RafranzDavis.com

JANUARY 23, 2016

Throughout the year, I have had opportunities to work directly in classrooms on digital learning initiatives. They have wifi for their mobile devices, but he didn’t have a laptop…until he was given one as a student in our High School STEM program. As of now, we do not give every student a laptop.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

In a recent edWebinar , sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA , the presenters talked about leading learning in a blended environment. Doersch serves as a Technology Director for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Program at Digital Promise.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The new digital landscape allows the younger generations to connect anytime, anywhere, with anyone using digital tools to communicate. . The digital generations are highly social – although not in the same way that the older generations are. This last element forms the F’s stem. . F-Patte rn.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

But that won’t close what has come to be known as “the digital divide.”. Nearly one in four school districts still does not have sufficient bandwidth to meet the digital learning needs of students. And even before bandwidth, plenty of schools don’t have the laptops or tablets that students need to get online.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. Many silver linings emerged and digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. One Laptop Per Child. WTF is Unizin ?!

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