The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Two student at Greenville’s Em Boyd Elementary, work on a science project on an iPad. He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Laptops iPad Elementary Report 40

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 19, 2020

Traditional coding activities dictate that students sit in front of laptops or tablets, working to develop a program or a game. Unplugged activities allow educators to teach coding away from laptops and tablets. This is the only way computers send, receive and store information. For example, Ms.

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Laptops Tablets Exercises Robotics 195

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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Elementary Training Laptops Technology 110

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. With these laptops, many teachers rose to the challenge of using digital materials—a new concept back in 2009.

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Elementary EdTech Case Study iPad 75

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

More information onscreen means less time needed to click and swap among tabs and windows. Laptops sit much lower on a work surface. Does your school issue laptops or Chromebooks to all students? Elementary school students have the least access to personal devices, at 71%. Information commons. Information station.

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Laptops Libraries STEM Chromebook 179

EdTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2018

Each student has a brand-new laptop and has easily mastered Google Classroom and the other educational apps you carefully chose for them. Therefore, it’s crucial to keep moms, dads and caregivers onboard and informed during all points of the device implementation process. Make Parents Comfortable with Tech for a Successful 1:1 Program.

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Digital Divide Social Media Chromebook Laptops 197

EdTechTeacher

MARCH 13, 2020

While creating and sharing audio has been challenging and often problematic in the past, there are three approaches that educators can take, with very little background experience, to begin leveraging audio to connect with their students, share information, and create a sense of community during this challenging time.

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Laptops Chromebook Google LMS 140

Graphite Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2019

For teachers, this big-picture perspective can help inform classroom management, teaching strategies, content choices, homework policies, and much more. For older elementary schoolers, they can begin learning to identify and respond to cyberbullying , reflect on their digital footprints , keep online friendships safe , and more.

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Digital Citizenship Smartphone Policies Laptops 45

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With remote learning in full swing for a little over half of American elementary and high school schools, students are spending even more time in front of a screen: By some accounts, students are getting up to 5 or 6 hours of additional technology use per day.

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Social Media Guidelines Smartphone Laptops 184

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating on the Fly Among the earliest challenges CTOs faced was how to get thousands of laptops and tablets for students and staff?while Steven Langford, chief information officer of Beaverton School District in Beaverton, Ore., while every school district in the country was trying to do the same thing. “It

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Chromebook Laptops Broadband Accessibility 187

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in primary, elementary or intermediate schools. This has become more critical as students use laptops, mobile devices, and home computers routinely. This information shows teachers where students are excelling, and where there’s room for improvement.

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Internet Safety Social Media Game-Based Learning Laptops 115

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: Redland Elementary.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Some people even lobby for a right to technology for every student, in the hope of making the presence of laptops and tablets in classrooms as spread as that of blackboards and notebooks. 78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life.

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

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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Laptops Student Engagement Elementary Assessment 259

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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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Works on desktops, laptops, and tablets , including Chromebooks, and on whiteboards. HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings. For more information, or to try out HearBuilder free for 60-days, go to www.hearbuilder.com.

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Common Core Elementary Chromebook Laptops 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Schools will receive grants to cover all enrollment costs and student access to laptops, as necessary. For more information about VHS Learning please visit [link] and follow on Twitter at @VHSLearning. The partnership enabled the schools to enroll the students in VHS Learning’s AP courses via a NMSI grant program.

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Course Laptops Learning Secondary 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 85

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

Each student will need a Chromebook or laptop or tablet with word processing software like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Mix it up if you want…Make some story starters funny and others informational. Give each student in the room a DIFFERENT story starter.

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Learning EdTech Software Chromebook 116

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A new era of teaching that integrates multiple media and information sources has begun. 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. Reinforcing instruction.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Training 256

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.,

EdTech 132

EdTech Robotics Assessment STEM 132

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.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Classroom Tablets 183

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Ten-year-old students today have more information in the palm of their hands than any previous generation,” said Micah Adams, Head of Content at The Social Institute. When asked to select topics that would be helpful for addressing technology with elementary students, nearly 75% identified “managing time on devices” as the skill most needed.

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Social Media Digital Divide Survey Elementary 67

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. It has to be a collaborative effort,” says Mark Racine, chief information officer for Boston Public Schools. “I This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 143

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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Social Media Laptops Strategy Report 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

They develop the capacity to build knowledge on a subject through research projects and to respond analytically to literary and informational sources. assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Rather: Laptop in hand, he wrote. Elementary-High School.

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Tools Common Core Twitter Laptops 155

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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Company Tools Elementary Twitter 319

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The app delivers children’s books in short chunks—on laptops, tablets or smartphones—and quizzes students about the content along the way. Samantha Nichols, a teacher at South Barber Elementary, in Kansas, is among the early users of SpoonRead. Using blockchain, the college creates tamper-proof records,” he wrote.

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Company Smartphone Laptops Tablets 82

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. Which is better for schools: iPads or laptops? It can help them find more interest and fun in learning.

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Classroom Digital Citizenship Comparison Elementary 150

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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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 139

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

Berrien Elementary had never been outside the city, couldn’t name the state capital and had never met someone who wasn’t from the United States. You just fill out some basic information, choose the activity you want and the times your class is typically free and they find you a teacher with a matching profile. How does it work?

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Video Classroom Laptops Study 128

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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Libraries Laptops Google iPad 97

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. Peoria deviated from the national trend when it came to technology.

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Survey Digital Divide Laptops Data 114

Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? However, some elementary schools prefer that homeroom teachers hand out the Chromebooks in class. With just one click, obtain your Chromebook information in the system to then easily distribute. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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Chromebook Libraries Elementary System 92

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

Maybe he walks his younger siblings to their elementary school each morning, demonstrating a knack for caregiving. I haven’t met a parent that wants their child to be socialized by a laptop, or an AI symbiote,” he says. Embracing Flexibility? Maybe he works at a part-time job when the school day ends, showing his diligence and drive.

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Classroom Learning Company Assessment 214

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

It sits in 50 high school classrooms, 22 elementary classrooms, and two district conference rooms. The technology is used daily to support the high school’s 1:1 laptop program. They can also write or draw on what they share to highlight important details; students then capture that information.

Student Engagement 115

Student Engagement Classroom Software Laptops 115

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Elementary and secondary schools provide for many students’ basic needs, which may not be met when those institutions close. Students may earn worse grades as a result of courses shifting online, either because they don’t take to the format, Mazer says, or because they don’t have access to required technology like laptops, Goldrick-Rab adds.

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Outcomes Secondary Laptops Elementary 94