Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems. How to get started. In fact, it took me less than five minutes to unbox, setup, find the power button, and sync to the free app/software on my laptop and my iPhone. How to use PASCO devices in your classroom. the concept of slope. Homescreen.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. 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

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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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. How ITAM takes it one step further. This takes place outside the classroom.

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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. Parents told her they appreciated the online library provided by the collected videos. “It

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. The most effective professional development (PD) goes beyond simply how to use the tech. It shines a light on how the tool will bring value to teachers and their students. In Praise of The Interactive Whiteboard.

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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. How a Chromebook Management Software takes it one step further.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

The e-books will be readable on e-readers, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices. In its bid for NYC’s business, Amazon edged out competitor OverDrive, which is also ramping up its commitment to schools and school libraries to compete for districts’ e-book dollars. million in the first year of the contract.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. Published with permission.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Purvis Thompson poses for a portrait at the Brooklyn Public Library after taking an anthropology class offered by Bard College on October 16, 2018. Bard College has opened a micro-college, offering associates degrees earned by attending classes at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza. DELECE SMITH-BARROW.

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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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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

TOOLS THEY USE MOSAIC PREPARATORY ACADEMY First in Math Fluency Tutor for Google Google Drive iPads Laptops myON Promethean boards Special education students at Raft River Schools gain skills and confidence through literacy games such as Reading Horizons’ Whack-a-Word. TOOLS THEY USE RAFT RIVER SCHOOLS Epic!

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 30, 2018

That year, the teachers and I participated in virtual professional learning with the Library of Congress. We engaged students in centers to explore primary documents from Barrow’s past, how to use laptops and microphones to record, interview etiquette, and how to craft the best interview questions to spark conversation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

You know, in my course, I’d have a 120-130 kids at a time, and our school library had about 30 books on the Civil War. There’s many ways to read it that doesn’t require you to sit at your laptop or sit at your Chromebook and stare at the screen the whole day. It’s not just a “how to use the tool.” Now there’s an eBook option.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

.” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” “Some of them have laptops.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Are we showing kids how to do really good searching?

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. What resources are presently available in schools, and how are they distributed? Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ? How do they use those devices?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Other students struggled with the freedom of toting the personal Chromebook laptops the school gave out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

There are specific procedures for everything: how to roll up your rug, how to pour liquid from one pitcher to another, how to draw lines on a paper. They have to practice with the materials; they have to be able to set up the shelves; they have to be able to know how to use the materials in teaching.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

The 1:1 districts involved in the summit discussion have made a wide range of device choices, including Windows laptops (for junior-high students in Auburn, Alabama and for high-school students in Columbus, Indiana) and iPads in grades 1–12 in New Braunfels, Texas. Markley shared some examples, including: ?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop. Photo: Andrew Franco. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” On an April morning in Billings’ class, students chatted in groups and surfed the internet on Chromebook laptops, as part of a unit on peace. Other students struggled with the freedom of toting the personal Chromebook laptops the school gave out.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2021

We create a list of creative writing prompts for kids to improve different writing styles and multiple topics that will resonate with a child in elementary school to a teen in high school. Describe a life without electronics – no smartphones, tablets, laptops… Describe a hole in the garden. Volcanoes erupt differently.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont. she muttered to herself.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As an elementary educator for most of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a variety of learners—from inner-city students in North Carolina to university-level students in Chicago—but I found my true calling as the librarian at Hubbard Woods Elementary in Winnetka, Illinois. Create a dream binder.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

During the prolonged online learning , some students fell so far behind developmentally and academically that they no longer knew how to behave or learn at school. Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. She teaches dance to elementary school kids now. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Going remote but delivering physical materials is one solution to a problem that has plagued after-school providers across the country — how to continue providing their enrichment and child care solutions during a pandemic. She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 25, 2018

At American School of Bombay elementary campus in Mumbai, you won’t hear a bell to signal lunch time. Rather than being composed of a bunch of small classrooms, the elementary space is large and open. A lot of teachers sit on the couch with a pillow on their lap, their laptop on top of it. In fact, there is no “bell schedule.”

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Khan Academy is a giant online library, viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide, of multiple-choice practice exercises and short instructional videos, with the strongest offerings in STEM disciplines. Some say students are getting distracted by working on the laptop or merely Googling for answers to quizzes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

ATLANTA — School had already let out for the day, but the teachers at Hollis Innovation Academy in northwest Atlanta were gathered around tables in the library, laptops open, strategizing. Miriam Greenberg, who oversees the program, said a small but growing number of districts are figuring out how to engage teachers with data.

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MindShift

JULY 29, 2015

“They are thinking about how to best integrate the innovation with content.” ” Rather than picking an app and trying to find a place for it in the classroom, Luhtala is hearing educators and their students describe what they want to do and then how they chose a tech tool to make that happen. The basic version is free.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2020

It records the action and then shows the athlete how to, for example, refine a fastball, analyze a golf swing, break down a volleyball serve, improve soccer skills, or demonstrate proper weightlifting form. Canva not only works on iPads but desktops and laptops. Coach’s Eye is a top app I heard about from lots of PE teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. We provided laptops and tablets as well as ‘hot spots’ to all our girls who needed them,” Hall said. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. . –Jean Eddy, CEO and President, American Student Assistance The term “science of reading” has become shorthand for phonics in many cases.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. “I’m

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