eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Schools will receive grants to cover all enrollment costs and student access to laptops, as necessary. The partnership enabled the schools to enroll the students in VHS Learning’s AP courses via a NMSI grant program. Students also received guidance from NMSI coaches. The program allowed them to enroll in the following courses: AP Statistics.

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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.” We’re unstoppable.”

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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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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

elementary and secondary schools teach the subject, maybe because there are so few curricula available for students. AI-in-a-Box retails at $2,999, according to ReadyAI’s website, and includes several Cozmo robots, tablets, laptops and game controllers. But few U.S.

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Robotics Secondary Laptops STEM 150

MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

In the past month, his son, who is in elementary school, has been assigned multiple worksheets per day. “I Their solutions included switching to a pass/incomplete system at secondary schools and focusing on narrative feedback at elementary schools. Eakins during a recent professional development session.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Elementary and secondary schools provide for many students’ basic needs, which may not be met when those institutions close. Several schools are closed in New Rochelle, New York, and as a result, unsupervised students are home alone or “roaming the streets,” Candance Pinn, a local kindergarten teacher, told NPR on Thursday.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 4, 2016

Below are a few places for getting started: Device Elementary Secondary iPad Daisy the Dinosaur Tickle (older app) Hopscotch Scratch Jr. Luckily, there are organizations, such as Code.org , dedicated to giving students opportunities to learn computer science. How do you get started?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop. After teaching chemistry, physics, and computer science, I became an administrator for the next 30 years with experience at the secondary, central office, and elementary levels. Vicki: Give us some examples. Vicki: (agrees). There’s a great deal of self-paced learning.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Green Bay Area PS had a laptop cart model until 2017 when they established the Ninja Deployment initiative that resulted 1:1 devices at the secondary level and 1.5:1 1 at the elementary level.

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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 57

eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

They’re used to charge, secure, store, and distribute tablets, laptops, and mobile devices—and in schools that aren’t using one-to-one take-home initiatives, they’ve become a mainstay. Carts, those waist-high metal cabinets on wheels, often hold dozens of devices, perfect for classrooms that need technology on the go.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The district made sure each child had a laptop to use in class almost a decade ago, according to the current director of digital learning, Grace Magley. And since MAPLE launched last December as a partnership between the LearnLaunch Institute and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, it hasn’t advocated for that.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Secondary 71

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. This split was almost reinforced physically, in a way. Perhaps that’s a sign of where the dollars and funders are gravitating these days.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

The approach traces its origins to the ideas of Maria Montessori , inventor of the Montessori method used in preschools and elementary schools globally, who encouraged children to do self-directed projects based on their interests. Preschools and elementary schools across the U.S Probably not,” she said.

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Personalized Learning Laptops Elementary Groups 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. Remote learning has changed the approach to out-of-school suspension at Shenendehowa Central School District, where more than a fourth of students identify as nonwhite. Oliver Robinson.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors. Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Leaving behind his Audubon laptop, work cellphone and office keys, he pulled his office door shut, jiggled the knob to make sure it was locked, set the school alarm and strolled out the front door. For the last five minutes of their talk, the two watched a guided meditation on a laptop. One task flowed directly into another.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other! Biblionasium – Explore this site that is the fun, reading-focused social network for kids in elementary and middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. At that point, students decide whether to go to upper secondary school for three more years, where they focus on academics, or to vocational school to prepare for a specific career. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

We rounded up some best practices League members use to ensure students stay in school, get their degrees, and are prepared for success in their post-secondary endeavors. Yet every student in Piedmont is given a laptop in school and to take home and, through partnerships developed by the district, can access free or low-cost broadband 24/7.

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Industry Broadband Course Elementary 40

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 2, 2017

Tips: If you have laptops, the web version of Adobe Spark is best, otherwise download the app! I love the way that Adobe Spark has made digital storytelling that much easier to create and share. This is a site that you’ll want to bookmark for easy access, and put on all of your students devices if you have a one-to-one environment.

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

There are projects for elementary levels as well as project ideas for middle and high school. PBL Clearing House – This University of Delaware site provides some interesting possibilities for secondary schools and PBL. High Tech Elementary – Their high school projects are awesome. Also listed are Problem Based Learning topics.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

AHS students each have their own laptop and routinely engage in tele-learning with 10 sister schools all around the world. Google makes the first quantum laptops available for an inexpensive subscription to ‘Google Premium,’ which allows free learning (and shopping) for every laptop owner. .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders.

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 56

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Texas got rootEd’s attention, she said, because a new education finance law , HB3, includes funding to encourage post-secondary enrollment that could help support their efforts there. Perry found her a laptop to borrow, then a scholarship to buy one. “I I probably would not be in college if not for Miss Hope,” Walker said.

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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. Photo: Jackie Mader. What would be the first thing you tell the principal?”

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop. Learn more > goo.gl/hneIsI hneIsI Photo Source 3. Thin and lightweight, built in pen, millions of apps on the Google Play Store, 360 degree rotating screen, this 2.38

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Being read to is wonderful,” Kraus said, especially if the bulk of one’s day is spent hunched over a laptop or buried in a book. Two years of music instruction in elementary and even secondary school can trigger biological changes in how the brain processes sound, which in turn affects language development.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

As a result, Artesia can better support classroom IT initiatives , including nearly 3,000 Lenovo laptops for the district’s 3,800 students. Today, the district’s main data center has been moved to a colocation center, with the existing data center upgraded to a Tier III secondary site.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Hines Elementary in Waco, Texas Here’s what eSN’s panel of educator experts had to say about DEI in action in their schools, the challenges they still face, and what they think will advance DEI initiatives in the years to come. We also are 1:1 with our devices–our students do take their HP or Lenovo laptops home.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Accessibility 124

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Phenix PreK-8 School over the summer, the students who were supposed to use them are making do.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P. " Tagged on: September 18, 2017 Too Much Technology in AR Elementary Schools? Phenix PreK-8 School over the summer, the students who were supposed to use them are making do.

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EdTech Industry Survey Laptops 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The shortages, and the way states respond to them, could have long-term consequences: Studies have documented that just 10 days of teacher absences can result in lower math and English language arts test scores for elementary students. Eleven students were at their desks at Norton Elementary School. Credit: Cheshire Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When their mom died of Covid pneumonia, they joined more than 140,000 children in the nation who lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid between April 2020 and June 2021. Does she know you don’t have a laptop?” So your teacher thought you had a laptop, or—” Tré asks. Jenny, 24, is the eldest. Jenny asks. Did you tell her?”

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Laptops iPhone Groups Report 119

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. That's a lot of computers. It is a massive innovative market with supportive government policies and strong market demand. emailed W-2 forms and employee information to a person posing as the superintendent.

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EdTech Chromebook Laptops iPad 170

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 7, 2021

This is important because when looking for credibility markers, sources, or publishing dates, different steps are required on a mobile device than it does on a laptop or a desktop. As Darren alluded to, the vast majority of people in the world get news now and infer all information through a mobile device, not from a laptop or a desktop.

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Mobility Laptops Video Accessibility 98

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

For elementary, it’s 2-3.5 For secondary, it’s 4 hours. I’m wondering if you can share some strategies maybe that elementary teachers have used, and then talk about some secondary strategies for helping kids focus and get their work completed when we’re doing distance learning. And what about for secondary?

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