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Review: Microsoft’s Portable Surface Laptop SE is Scaled Down Yet Powerful

EdTech Magazine

As schools and parents rushed to purchase laptops during the pandemic, it’s entirely possible that some bought devices that were not designed for K–12 students. The new Microsoft Surface Laptop SE is the direct result of those efforts. The new Microsoft Surface Laptop SE is the direct result of those efforts.

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How edtech is improving special education

Neo LMS

In the realm of education, devices and e-learning technologies enable students with special needs to take greater ownership of their learning experience. Educators benefit from embracing the use of computers and tablets with all students. Educators benefit from embracing the use of computers and tablets with all students.

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Review: Microsoft Surface Laptop Go Makes Remote Learning More Reasonable

EdTech Magazine

A good laptop not only provides traditional educational benefits, such as running core educational programs and providing a platform to access the internet, but also empowers meaningful distance learning by supporting powerful remote collaboration tools.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Newly published, peer-reviewed research out of Michigan State University and the University of California, Irvine suggests that one-to-one laptop programs improve student academic achievement in K-12 classrooms. Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. Review of Educational Research.

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Why I Believed Edtech Could Save My School — and How It Failed Me

Edsurge

It wasn’t that I didn't value, cherish and miss the face-to-face interactions I had with my students, but because I naively assumed that my more reluctant colleagues would see the light and finally embrace edtech. Are we just educational luddites or has the edtech revolution fallen short of its promises ?

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Helping teachers and admins see the value of edtech

Neo LMS

The fact that education needs to change isn’t something new. In fact, any edtech leader, IT manager, or anyone in charge of implementing new technology has actually been a change manager in one way or another. Helping teachers and admins see the value of edtech. With edtech, the role of a teacher or admin is even more important.

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These Lesser Known Educational Technologies Remain Vital to Learning

EdTech Magazine

They can then upload the lessons to the LMS, and a student who is stuck at home sick can view them and catch up using their school-issued laptop. Teachers can create dynamic, animated charts and graphics for lessons on the interactive whiteboard. Yet, digital…

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