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iPad Magic: 6 Ideas Every iPad Teacher Needs to Know

The CoolCatTeacher

Want to show your cursor on the iPad screen? There’s a trick for these things and more on the iPad. Today, Tony Vincent shares six ideas every iPad teacher needs to know. iPad Magic: 6 Ideas Every iPad Teacher Needs to Know. In one hand, I’m manipulating the iPad, and the other I’m pointing at the screen.

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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

Securly

These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. Then there was the iPad. Appealing to all ages for all occasions, the iPad topped the market in the following years after its release. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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Print or Digital Textbooks? What’s the Low-down?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It started with a push for desktop computers which soon expanded to iPads and the wonderful apps (like art programs) that made tablets essential tools. Quickly after iPads, schools fell in love with Chromebooks and their amazing ability to allow students to collaborate and share, not to mention their ease of maintenance.

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Wi-Fi radiation: Practical steps to implement safer tech in classrooms  

eSchool News

In 2020, the New Hampshire State Commission on 5G released a Final Report recommending that cell towers be distanced from schools and that Wi-Fi be replaced with safer technology in schools and libraries. Teacher unions have passed resolutions and numerous resources are available to educate students on safer ways to use modern technology.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 & 29 Editions)

Doug Levin

graduation rates — up to a record 83 percent — and whether it is real or an elaborate scam. Tagged on: July 23, 2017 ED warns schools of another widespread ransomware attack | Future of Ed Tech e-Newsletter → In light of a recent widespread ransomware attack, the U.S. So why do I still want schools to use them? Unified gets a $3.26-million

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. join the Library 2.0 The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Free Tool Provides a Roadmap—Literally—For Faster, Cheaper Broadband in Schools

Edsurge

As iPads, laptops and other learning gadgets increasingly make their way into K-12 schools, there’s one resource that more than 21 million students still lack access to in the United States: high-speed internet. “We They turned to E-rate, the $3.9 Still, the tool isn’t for everybody.