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These New Web-Based AR and VR Tools Are Perfect for Chromebooks

Edsurge

Today’s most popular augmented and virtual reality applications are typically available for mobile devices, but many classrooms have moved from tablets to Chromebooks, especially at the secondary level. Chromebooks are often cheaper than other laptops and tablets like iPads, and they’re simpler to manage for district technology departments.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Libraries Many trends collide here, and really deserve a full post.

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High school should be more like preschool

The Hechinger Report

But several trends once relegated mainly to progressive schools or alternative schools for at-risk students are reaching the mainstream and have even been embraced by entire states. The projects had to be science-related, one student explained. But is it what a 14-year-old or 15-year-old should be doing? Probably not,” she said.

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A few silver linings emerge in a dark time of closed schools

The Hechinger Report

Something that many had not been planning to do mid-semester was having to help students get laptops and the technology that they need to work remotely. Are there any other issues of access or equity, any trends that you’re seeing or expect to see? STEPHEN SMITH: So, tell us what else you hope to look into going forward?

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The upside, and the downside, of working ‘as fast as you want and as slow as you need’

The Hechinger Report

Working with stakeholders and consultants, it was decided to incorporate a project-based, competency-based model that would use laptops as opposed to textbooks, and students would work by the mantra “as fast as you want and as slow as you need”. Related: A path out of trouble. Nellie Mae is a funder of The Hechinger Report).

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

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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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

Holmes County, where half the students live below poverty level , is following a national trend by using online resources to offer more advanced high school courses to its students. Related: Why one Mississippi district ditched textbooks for laptops. It’s a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Why Mississippi?