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K-12 Districts Keep Students Safe with Web Filters and Monitors

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Each student receives either a Lenovo touch-screen laptop or a Microsoft Surface for use in the classroom and for homework. MORE FROM EDTECH: Find out how K-12 schools can balance privacy and security protocols. With that in mind, Harpeth Hall recently turned to Relay from Lightspeed Systems.

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Asset Management Tools Help Time-Strapped K–12 IT Teams

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But Chinnici, the Chicago system’s IT director, was operating with one system administrator and five help desk technicians. But the convertible tablets — Lenovo 300e devices featuring touch screens mounted on 360-degree hinges — also offer significant new capabilities that benefit IT management. .

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L.A. District Weighs $6.4M Settlement With Apple, Lenovo Over Tech Woes

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The nation's second-largest district is poised to settle a dispute with Apple and Lenovo stemming from the system's problematic 1:1 technology rollout.

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Microsoft’s Big Bett Updates: Free VR Curriculum and Using a Pencil as a Stylus

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On this note Microsoft didn’t disappoint: seven new Windows 10 devices from Acer, Dell and Lenovo that range from $189 to $300. But one of them is particularly noteworthy: the Lenovo 300e, a 2-in-1 device with a screen that students can write on with any No. 2 pencil, instead of a stylus.

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K–12 Districts Prepare Students for Careers in the Tech-Dominated Economy

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SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! The district has mobile ­computer labs in all schools and provides Samsung Chromebooks and Lenovo ThinkPads loaded with Google Apps for Education. “Start small with a robotics competition or a club,” he says. just northwest of Boston.

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Companies Invest in Preparing K–12 Students as Older Sectors Become Tech Integrated

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education system. Increased STEM funding from private companies comes as Americans raise concerns over the attention science, technology, engineering and math classes get in the U.S.

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How to Roll Out Chromebooks for Your District in a Jiffy

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In August 2016, the tech team at the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana was loading up new Acer Chromebooks to be delivered to the district’s 87 schools when the area was hit with a catastrophic storm. . SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! eli.zimmerman_9856.