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Creating a Classroom Routine for Online or Hybrid Learning Students

Waterford

Some families may have multiple children sharing one laptop. Simply shutting your laptop and putting it in a drawer can be a meaningful method of shifting from work life to home life. Other students may not have ideal access to the Internet. Setting Expectations for Remote Learning Students. National Institute for STEM Education.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

inch Full HD touch displays, all Spin 5 models have a 360-degree hinge that allows four usage modes (laptop, tablet, display, and tent). ACER SPIN 5 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Spin 5 is a convertible Windows notebook PC line with a variety of options to meet administrator, teacher, and student needs. inch or 13.3-inch

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Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs

The Hechinger Report

. — On most afternoons, Jeremiah Smith, founder of an afterschool and summer program called the Rosedale Freedom Project, can be found sitting side-by-side with his students as they peer at laptops, trying to get through their assignments. The school district contracts with Edmentum, which is similar to Edgenuity.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

EDMENTUM EXACTPATH ( www.edmentum.com/products/exact-path ) Edmentum Exact Path utilizes adaptive diagnostic assessments paired with targeted student learning paths to ensure academic growth in K-8 reading, language arts, and math. Spectrum Industries Inc.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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 For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.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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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Verge : “ OLPC ’s $100 laptop was going to change the world – then it all went wrong.” Edmentum has raised $25 million in debt financing from New Mountain Finance Corporation and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. Upgrades and Downgrades. ” ( A good thread on Twitter in response.).