EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In many cases, districts are trying to get the maximum return on their investments by extending the life of the laptops and tablets that students use. As school-issued devices near the end of their lifecycles, K–12 institutions are searching for ways to sustain these technologies.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We also inventoried adult-user laptops in an older, on-premises system. When Erin Ford joined Virginia’s Chesterfield County Public Schools as director of technology services, she became concerned about the way the district monitored its technology assets. “We

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Until just a few years ago, school-issued laptops, tablets and hotspots were largely considered a luxury in many K–12 schools. However, by 2022, about 90 percent of middle and high schools reported providing students with devices, and 84 percent of elementary schools said they were doing the same, according to a 2022 EdWeek survey.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 16, 2019

But without good internet, the laptop that you have won’t work,” says Hector Reyna, CTO of Socorro Independent School District in El Paso, Texas. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out everything you need to know about E-rate. Infrastructure isn’t sexy. by Melissa Delaney.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2018

During the past school year, IT officials at Wachusett Regional High School in Massachusetts began what would later become a one-to-one Chromebook rollout, deploying five technology carts holding 25 laptops each. . He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. It was a good problem to have.”. by Calvin Hennick.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Still, for a variety of reasons, some students arrive with their laptops low on power, which can lead to classroom interruptions and missed lessons. Like most schools, educators at Modesto City Schools in Stanislaus County, Calif., expect their students to come to school prepared to learn.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Still, for a variety of reasons, some students arrive with their laptops low on power, which can lead to classroom interruptions and missed lessons. Like most schools, educators at Modesto City Schools in Stanislaus County, Calif., expect their students to come to school prepared to learn.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

Because districts went into emergency mode when the pandemic began, many IT leaders have not seen these laptops or tablets. Students ages 6 to 18 years old were given devices for remote learning, and now IT teams must find the best way to sanitize these laptops, tablets and… Part of this involves the literal sanitization of devices.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2023

A new tongue-operated device could mean K–12 students with disabilities who can’t use other types of assistive technology can still work with laptops, tablets and other classroom tools. MouthPad, a custom-fitted interface that attaches to users’ upper teeth like a retainer, functions somewhat like a trackpad.

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ViewSonic Education

JULY 19, 2023

Magazine, 80% of workers understand mobile phones can be a distraction in meetings. You can politely remind all meeting attendees to keep their mobile phones or laptops away so that they can pay attention to the messages conveyed during the meeting. In an article in Inc. However, about 50% still use them anyway.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Laptops with built-in touch-screen capabilities give K–12 students all the powerful benefits of traditional laptops with the added precision of a touch-responsive design. There are many different touch-screen laptops on the market to choose from, but Lenovo gives school districts the ability to…

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

They can then upload the lessons to the LMS, and a student who is stuck at home sick can view them and catch up using their school-issued laptop. Teachers can create dynamic, animated charts and graphics for lessons on the interactive whiteboard. Yet, digital…

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 25, 2019

Each student receives either a Lenovo touch-screen laptop or a Microsoft Surface for use in the classroom and for homework. As more schools put laptops and tablets in students’ hands, they’re also deploying new technologies that allow them to mitigate related risks. Compliance Boosts Security for Galway Central School District.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Schools can prepare for an influx of new devices.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 25, 2023

I say potential because this depends on the devices you buy, how you deploy them, how dense your network is and whether end users have upgraded their laptops, tablets and smartphones to…

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

By Meghan Bogardus Cortez Classroom computers can’t boost student outcomes if educators don’t know how to use them innovatively.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 18, 2017

The NEA covers personalized learning in its membership magazine. BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow covers student privacy in parent agreements for school-issued laptops. Richard Colvin takes on the New York Times' Google in K-12 coverage. Fire, meet gasoline.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 31, 2021

As soon as the boxes of laptops arrived at the homes of Casa Blanca Community School students, the phone calls to school leaders began. As they removed the laptops from boxes and figured out how to turn them on, the school community took the first of many steps toward becoming a tech-endowed dynamo in distance learning.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

While we need to return the laptops and peripherals when the school year ends, it’s been great having this new technology to use with my class. Our school provides many applications that I can use with my students, and I constantly share tips with other teachers in the district, encouraging them to use this technology in their own classrooms.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

CHICAGO – June 25, 2018 – According to a national study by , schools with one-to-one laptop environments show higher levels of academic achievement. Now with today’s launch of the world’s first augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) laptop from Silicon Valley company, zSpace Inc.,

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A few miles away, the mother of a middle school student sits down at her kitchen table, pulls out her laptop, clicks on a meeting link and is soon getting updates from her son’s teacher without ever leaving her home. A teacher stands in front of a screen in a north central Texas schoolroom.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

School districts can’t just invest in laptops, mobile devices and other hardware, then call it a day. Those students can take their laptops home, but when they get home there’s a divide in connectivity. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. keara.dowd_i47Z. Thu, 11/07/2019 - 15:06. by Wylie Wong.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

To support this digital shift, IT teams supplied laptops, tablets and other peripherals to make learning anywhere a possibility. Come fall, K–12 school buildings will welcome back students, educators and staff members who are ready to reconnect with one another after many months of online learning.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Ninety-four percent of public schools say they’re providing digital devices such as laptops or tablets to students who need them for the 2022-2023 school year, according to U.S. Now that students are back in the classroom, many of those tools are continuing to play a key role in K–12 education. Department of Education data.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

School-issued laptops became a valuable bridge to learning and community when schools switched to remote learning during the pandemic lockdown. Now that students are back in the classroom with their devices in tow, educators are beginning to unlock their potential for in-person learning through one-to-one programs.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 25, 2022

Overly long refresh cycles and standard-issue laptops no longer cut it. One positive effect has been the broad recognition that teachers need up-to-date, effective technology in the classroom to meet students’ learning needs. Manufacturers are responding by delivering devices with features that cater to educator needs.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2022

Focusing those efforts in three key areas — laptops, workstation tech and… Many districts, flush with federal funding, are allocating at least some of this one-time budget for classroom technology upgrades.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Laptops and online collaboration dominated the learning space last year, but key audiovisual adoption trends are likely to carry over into the future, said Mike Peters, an educational strategy lead for CDW•G.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

As part of the shift to remote learning in 2020, many schools provided devices such as laptops and tablets to students for the purpose of attending school via the internet. Phones connect to the internet, TVs connect to the internet, and even vacuum cleaners are online today.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

When schools went remote in 2020, the demand for laptops and tablets skyrocketed. This depleted inventories, accelerated the need for computer chips and created sustained shortages. Read on to learn five reasons this situation persists. Why Does the Chip Shortage Matter?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Charging carts, lockers and storage cabinets allow teachers to charge multiple laptops and tablets effectively and simultaneously. These solutions also allow teachers to securely store such devices. Here’s how to optimize your carts.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Most of the district’s schools had one laptop for every three students, but the devices had to stay in school; no one could take them home. Five years ago, many students in the District of Columbia Public Schools had to share computers with one another.

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Neo LMS

MAY 7, 2019

If at first classroom technology consisted of pens and paper and the blackboard, the most recent ed-tech now includes interactive whiteboards, classroom projectors, laptops or tablets and even VR headsets. This post was originally published in the February 2019 edition of the Education Today Magazine.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

K–12 school districts thinking of mothballing their aging fleets of laptops and other end-user computing devices now have an opportunity to give them a new lease on life. Last month, Google began rolling out Chrome OS Flex, a cloud-based, free-to-download operating system that can turn older PCs and Macs into Chrome OS devices.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2018

The other day, when I needed a temporary table for my laptop, I just wheeled the LearnFit over to my location, lowered the table with the handy lever, pulled up a chair, sat down and started working. blogs and produces videos for EdTech magazine. It was like having a mobile recording studio. . by Buzz Garwood.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Schools will need to do that with care to avoid damage; laptops, tablets and other mobile devices can be expensive. Traveling between different spaces will require regular cleaning and disinfection of those devices to minimize the spread of germs and viruses.

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