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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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Why experts say now is the time to assess your district’s edtech use

eSchool News

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? she was often tasked with letting teachers know why a potential new tool wasn’t approved for use. Lately, though, the district has flipped the script. And Union County is far from alone.

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Helping teachers and admins see the value of edtech

Neo LMS

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. As long as your school’s edtech solutions effectively solve their problems, it’s hard for teachers not to see their value.

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Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM

EdTech Magazine

Top K–12 Tech Tools for Teaching STEM. Despite these differing approaches, education technology has been an essential tool to aid K–12 teachers in reaching their goals in STEM education. . MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how K–12 schools can make the most of their education technology investments! eli.zimmerman_9856.

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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. Warschauer, M., H., & Chang, C. (in

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Reaching edtech harmony in your classroom

eSchool News

While diverse edtech products promise innovation, they simultaneously pose challenges. Educators, learners, instructional technology coaches, and IT/edtech staff are grappling with the complexities of managing an ever-expanding arsenal of disconnected digital tools.

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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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