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What Happens When Low-Income College Students Borrow Free Laptops?

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The post ( perhaps one like this ) described how alienating and awkward it can feel for a student to show up to class without a laptop. With professors saying ‘Everyone take out your laptop,’ it was not an inclusive environment. Most of the laptops the university recommends for students cost upwards of $1,000.

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10 Tips for Teaching Remotely

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This includes your LMS, virtual meeting tool, cloud accounts, email, scan, social media, and sharing. That made it hard to print a lot of documents. Instead, I loaded the document onto my iPad (or laptop) and interacted with it there. Have backup batteries for your phone, laptop, and iPad.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. School digital devices used to be primarily PCs, but now there are Chromebooks, iPads, Macs, Surface Pros, laptops, and more. Digital portfolio sites. Devices you can use.

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5 easy ways to promote the Affordable Connectivity Program in your community

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Share on your social accounts. Tell your social media followers about the Affordable Connectivity Program. Use your social media accounts to explain what the benefit provides and how to qualify. Many haven’t heard of the ACP or know what they need to do to enroll. Add ACP information to your website.

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6 Practical strategies for teaching across the digital divide

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For instance if you only have one laptop with broadband access that requires a teacher sign-in, then look at designing project-based learning modules with teams of students where online research is simply one component of a larger project. So keep in mind that simple lessons such as: Creating Word documents. How online shopping works.

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End-of-Year Maintenance: 16 Steps To A Speedier Computer

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Here’s what you need to do: Sort through Documents and get rid of those you don’t need anymore. Plus, it distracts you from finding the documents you really want. If you have social media, let them notify you of activity once a week instead of daily. you are slow–meaning: You have too much to do. Do it, though.

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7 Must-have Tools for Ed Conferences

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Now, you might be asked to scan a QR code and visit a website, access meeting documents online, interact digitally, or use a backchannel device to share your real-time thoughts with the presenter. iPad, Chromebook, or Laptop, or Netbook. Almost as bad is using one of those big clunky laptops. Any ideas?). There are many options.