Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Now, the question was how to experiment with it—and what to do when that money ran out.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Out on Capitol Hill, she warned, the feds are “itching to take this money away from us.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in primary, elementary or intermediate schools. This provides a simple way to give each child the basics on how to stay safe online. This has become more critical as students use laptops, mobile devices, and home computers routinely. and Canada.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“Thankfully I have an amazing staff who are very seasoned … I had a number of meetings and said, ‘Here’s the problem, how do we even begin to solve it?’” Innovating on the Fly Among the earliest challenges CTOs faced was how to get thousands of laptops and tablets for students and staff?while

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Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This nationally representative study on how kids age 8 to 18 use media highlights what kinds of access kids have to technology, what they're doing on those devices and how often, and how much they enjoy the various types of media activities they're engaged in. Why and How to Use YouTube Video Essays in Your Classroom?.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Monica Williams.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The purpose of my trip here was to learn about the deployment, facilitation, and observable impact of 1:1 laptop programs in various Iowa school districts. Little did I know that I would be leaving with a wealth of information that could have the potential to radically transform the learning culture at New Milford High School.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. Ramos’ parents promised to buy her a laptop eventually, but bills mounted and it wasn’t in the family’s budget.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

What appeared an easy move grew complicated when both happened to be picked for FAFSA verification; to receive financial aid, they had to prove that their submitted information was accurate. Perry found her a laptop to borrow, then a scholarship to buy one. “I The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education?

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A new era of teaching that integrates multiple media and information sources has begun. Keep reading on to learn more about how interactive whiteboards are reshaping education or check out how ViewSonic is creating engaging spaces using all forms of EdTech. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff. AVer Information Inc.,

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life. Tablets are the number one choice for classroom learning, as they are somewhere in the middle ground between the reliability of laptops and the mobility of smartphones. Finding the value of going mobile.

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MindShift

MAY 17, 2021

This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Courtney Miller’s son is in kindergarten at Glen Cove Elementary in Vallejo, California. B’ is made with a dive-down letter. So you dive down,” Glick said as she deepened her voice.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

Barrow Elementary, the project begins with each student selecting one of six nominees from civil rights history to research. Each year, I begin by sharing Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize by Kathy-Jo Warginalong with information on the Nobel Peace Prize. Named for our school, David C.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A birds-eye view captures a bed, a clock and a laptop, surrounded by the bedroom walls which seem to creep closer to the bed as one looks on. In a recent report , the association recommended trauma-informed teaching strategies to promote mental health through self-expression—for their students’ sake and their own.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. Children are learning how to be even more resilient, and technology is helping that happen.”. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

As an elementary principal, I could wear a different Christmas tie every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas and not get them all worn. Maybe we can put a little link in the Shownotes that a teacher can go to to really get the information on how to give a gift subscription of Evernote. It’s around $70 a year. Vicki: Love that.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. That’s one reason why the foundation has been pondering whether and how to revise its time-based learning standard for a few years now. Embracing Flexibility?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

It informs students in emergencies, updates them on historic events, and now–with extensions like Apple TV–connects them on a granular level to what they learn in their textbooks. Educational Shows For Elementary. Maybe even let the kids pick different titles to teach them how to make comparisons.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

AIR sent out surveys to more than 2,500 of the nation’s 13,500 school districts in May and plans to release results periodically to inform education policymakers during the pandemic. That allowed Desmoulin-Kherat to distribute 6,000 laptops to families at home.

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Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? How do you manage repairs and replacements? Upon purchasing thousands of Chromebooks, it’s not always evident that school districts must plan how they will distribute the devices. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. “There has to be a focus on helping these folks get better.”. Smith asked.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. They had something more important: basic digital literacy. We saw it in our U.S.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Most don’t have informed opinions (so I’m happy to share mine with them). High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. If you only had six laptops in your classroom, how would you best utilize them? How does digital learning work with electives?

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MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

She also provides information such as where to access public WiFi so students can keep up with classes. In the past month, his son, who is in elementary school, has been assigned multiple worksheets per day. “I Many districts have distributed laptops and wireless hot spots to families without Internet , for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., After dealing with the first priority — making sure students were safe and fed — schools had to figure out how to keep the learning alive. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

As I sat at a giant table with 15 colleagues pondering how to make professional learning more personal for our teachers, my eyes drifted to my screen. I spun around my laptop, which was currently displaying Mancrates , a website that sends Valentine’s boxes to avid lovers of artisanal meats. That’s when it dawned on me.

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Learning Professional Learning Survey Resources 122

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last two years, Google piloted its Rolling Study Halls program, providing grants to help equip school buses with Wi-Fi and stripped-down laptops. As promising as these small programs are, Professor Ely hasn’t heard anyone else “talking about how to make that time more constructive.” He says: “I don’t think that’s out there.

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Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? How do you manage repairs and replacements? Upon purchasing thousands of Chromebooks, it’s not always evident that school districts must plan how they will distribute the devices. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

And writing students at every level who are inspired by engaging prompts and able to share, collaborate, and access support and informative texts are happier too. The highlighting informs the Post-it note reflecting her analysis, which was included in her essay. The teetering stacks of papers waiting to be graded are gone.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In most places, information about how often this happens is hidden from the public, but in districts where data has been made available, it’s clear that Black students are more frequently subjected to these removals than their peers. That means oversight agencies don’t have access to the information.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. Using graphs, charts, and other visuals to represent information was associated with a 26 percentile point gain in student achievement. These are actions that, for example, signal that an answer is correct or to present information in an unusual context.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

Back in episode 216, I spoke with Peter Adams of the News Literacy Project about how educators can be informed media consumers and advocates for truth. Now we’re ready to do a deeper exploration into how we can support students in information literacy.

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Mobility Laptops Video Accessibility 98

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

She shares essential tips on how to use Flipgrid. For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. So maybe I’m a social studies teacher, I’m teaching middle school, I’m teaching high school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as well. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2016

And I imagine that topic will endure as our boys progress into elementary school and beyond. We talk about whether we had good days or bad days, but not about what we learned or how we grew. At the end of the day, I often get on my laptop to do a bit more work—just like the uninformed people in the Harvard study.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

But do educators know how to support our requirements? According to CAST, the association working to increase opportunities for everyone to learn, the way we all absorb information is as unique as our fingerprint. From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards.

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