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Pedagogy first, technology second – the key to successful hybrid classes

Neo LMS

It’s the essential skill teachers need to accomplish their goals, help students meet educational standards, and equip them with competencies that will help them later on, at work and in life. For instance, your laptop might run out of battery right in the middle of the lesson. Have a backup plan.

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Calculating your school district’s bandwidth need: Network Essentials for Superintendents

Education Superhighway

Each district is unique and no one bandwidth number will meet everyone’s learning requirements across the board. In a school environment, the two main drivers of how much network bandwidth you need are (1) the number of devices like tablets, laptops, and smartphones your network is supporting and (2) how often these devices will be used.

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FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING INNOVATION

techlearning

Or are there mobile laptop/tablet stations?) ? How fast must they be to meet students’ and educators’ needs? ? In making its transition to online assessment, Delaware used this strategy. (For example, are there two computers in every classroom or a dedicated physical computer lab? How do they use those devices? ?

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

techlearning

ACER SPIN 5 ( WWW.ACER.COM/AC/EN/US/CONTENT/HOME ) The Acer Spin 5 is a convertible Windows notebook PC line with a variety of options to meet administrator, teacher, and student needs. inch Full HD touch displays, all Spin 5 models have a 360-degree hinge that allows four usage modes (laptop, tablet, display, and tent). inch or 13.3-inch

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. For the past ten years, every ten months or so, someone would pen an op-ed claiming it was time to ban laptops in the classroom. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. And on and on and on.

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