Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2020

Canva not only works on iPads but desktops and laptops. If you have another platform, try Draw a Stickman (well-suited for elementary school ages). Canva for education features 17+ lesson plans from the leaders in tech ed. You can even sign in through Google Apps for Education. Pivot Animator. Pivot Animator only works on Windows.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This piece is the first in our new monthly series focusing on Innovative School Libraries and Librarians. Be sure to keep checking back during the month of August for new library-focused articles!]. Our students mostly use iPads in kindergarten and 1 st grade, so this is their first use of a laptop for a project.

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Libraries Laptops Google iPad 96

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating on the Fly Among the earliest challenges CTOs faced was how to get thousands of laptops and tablets for students and staff?while As soon as we distributed our devices to our elementary students, possible or not we had to create a student help desk,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture of library shelves with “caution do not enter” tape. Elsewhere, a school used caution tape to prevent students from roaming through bookshelves in the library. Desks are separated to maintain physical distance in a Stoneham, Massachusetts, classroom. Credit: Eileen Wood. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2018

In this series, we will be profiling innovative and award-winning library media specialists who will share their favorite tools, lessons, and advice. To get started, I used my experience as a classroom educator to create a cross-curricular library curriculum that supports classroom teachers’ lessons, marrying the idea of books and bytes.

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Robotics Libraries Laptops Elementary 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These are great for mature elementary age, Middle School, and High School students, as well as teachers. Canva not only works on iPads, but desktops and laptops. Pictures can be imported from your photo library, Instagram, Facebook or the web. The only downside with this app is it’s not available on desktops and laptops.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. This computing device return-and-repair ritual looks different from the end-of-year textbook and library book return that was a staple of decades past. But it’s increasingly common.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Some parents and educators are calling for a ban on smartphones and laptops in schools. They restrict phones and laptops in certain contexts and make them available in others, depending on what they believe will provide a good learning environment for their children at different ages and stages.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Her three kids were enrolled in middle and elementary school; she was working toward her GED. They didn’t own a laptop, and even when they got two from school — one from the city for the kids, the other from Almadani’s program — they had to share. I don’t have any time or help now.”

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Laptops Study Accessibility Elementary 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine—Like many school districts, Brunswick School Department in Maine suddenly has a lot more laptops and tablets to manage than it planned for. We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

You know, in my course, I’d have a 120-130 kids at a time, and our school library had about 30 books on the Civil War. There’s many ways to read it that doesn’t require you to sit at your laptop or sit at your Chromebook and stare at the screen the whole day. I used to make “bookshelves” in Google Books for all my students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

. — After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. 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 125

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

Each student will need a Chromebook or laptop or tablet with word processing software like Google Docs or Microsoft Word. Both platforms offer libraries of reviews created by other educators as well. Give each student in the room a DIFFERENT story starter. Mix it up if you want…Make some story starters funny and others informational.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As an elementary educator for most of my career, I’ve had the privilege of working with a variety of learners—from inner-city students in North Carolina to university-level students in Chicago—but I found my true calling as the librarian at Hubbard Woods Elementary in Winnetka, Illinois. Create a dream binder.

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Robotics STEM Libraries Laptops 64

Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? However, some elementary schools prefer that homeroom teachers hand out the Chromebooks in class. Similar to a library system, you can track which student has which Chromebook and who is their homeroom teacher. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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Chromebook Libraries Elementary Tools 92

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2020

It was intoxicating to think about all of the books I could build a library with, the art supplies, the laminating machine, the printer, the educational subscriptions. Perhaps the district has loaned them a laptop for basic word processing. I could make a list of every single supply I wanted and they would buy it. But it’s not enough.

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Trends Laptops Analysis Video 184

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. BELGRADE, Mont. she muttered to herself.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

billion , available through the FCC’s new emergency connectivity fund, will go toward the purchase of laptops, tablets, WiFi, hotspots, modems, routers, and broadband connections “for off-campus use to serve the unmet needs of students, school staff, and library patrons.” An additional $7.17

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 128

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

(AP) – One Thursday morning in May, instead of sitting at a desk in her sixth-grade classroom in the Oregon mountains, Khloe Warne sat at a table in her mother’s bakery, doing her schoolwork on a laptop and watching her favorite clips of anime. Across the U.S.,

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PlagiarismCheck

JANUARY 27, 2023

Its advantages include: Flexibility to work on multiple devices such as desktops, laptops, and tablets; Multiple powerful content creation tools; Customizable grading scales; Collaborative platform; Great support resources and scalability. Alternatives to Perlego include eCampus Library and TextbooksPlus.

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Software LMS Moodle Tablets 93

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The idea for the new program was to organize Khan Academy’s online library of learning videos and problem sets into a game-like software program to help kids practice skills they need to master. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That’s vastly better than assigning students homework that doesn’t provide feedback and resembles busy work, be it photocopied word searches in the elementary grades or repetitive math worksheets across the school years. Those dull, outdated assignments don’t further learning goals and only serve to disengage students.

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Tools Laptops Analysis Broadband 91

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Roundtable participants included: Julie Mavrogeorge , Coordinator II – CTE (Esports, Drones, AME and Ag) with Fresno Unified School District Allison Reid , Senior Director of Digital Learning and Libraries in the Wake Forest County Public School System Dr. Cynthia Wise , Principal of J.H.

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Chromebook Robotics Elementary Accessibility 124

techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

TOOLS THEY USE MOSAIC PREPARATORY ACADEMY First in Math Fluency Tutor for Google Google Drive iPads Laptops myON Promethean boards Special education students at Raft River Schools gain skills and confidence through literacy games such as Reading Horizons’ Whack-a-Word. TOOLS THEY USE RAFT RIVER SCHOOLS Epic!

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Laptops Khan Academy Google iPad 89

SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Just recently, we also looked at interesting research into typical expository language performance for the upper-elementary to high-school population. The advantages for me are that I tend to do this reading on my laptop, and tools such as Preview or Adobe Reader do not have the same features.

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Adobe iPad Libraries Laptops 68

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He brought in more than $15 million in federal and state funding for Race to the Top projects, magnet elementary themes and preschool. After TFA, she joined the KIPP charter network at KIPP Delta in Helena, Arkansas; when the network opened an elementary school, she became its leader. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Libraries Elementary System 109

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

How teachers are benefitting from teaching outdoors: Jain, a high school teacher from Texas, experienced an immediate effect on her physical health and forced her to take advantage of her lunch break while her laptop finishes charging. Image via Library of Congress. schools began holding classes outdoors.

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How To Laptops Elementary Case Study 89

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. 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. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Learning Blended Learning Secondary 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Instead, she cruised the hallways or read in the library. His school-issued laptop didn’t work, and because of bureaucratic hurdles the district didn’t issue a new one for several weeks. Ezekiel West, 10, opens up his K12/Stride school loaner laptop computer outside his home in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

When Hudgins started the virtual summer camp, she found that many students who had been provided laptops by their school districts had to turn them in when the spring semester ended. She had to provide laptops, tablets and even mobile hotspots to a number of her kids just so they could participate.

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Survey Laptops Accessibility Report 142

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Here is November''s Diigo library. And here is mine.

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MOOC Khan Academy BYOD Libraries 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Hope Perry, college access counselor for The Ayers Foundation Scholars Program, in the library of Summertown High School in Lawrence County, Tennessee. In early September, inside the Summertown High library, Perry wore a print fabric mask featuring the school’s bald eagle mascot. Credit: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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Tablets Learning Elementary Software 84

Vizor

JANUARY 15, 2020

How do you manage lending laptops to students? However, some elementary schools prefer that homeroom teachers hand out the Chromebooks in class. Similar to a library system, you can track which student has which Chromebook and who is their homeroom teacher. Chromebook Management is often overlooked from an IT perspective.

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Chromebook Software Libraries Elementary 52

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

The e-books will be readable on e-readers, tablets, smartphones, laptops and other devices. In its bid for NYC’s business, Amazon edged out competitor OverDrive, which is also ramping up its commitment to schools and school libraries to compete for districts’ e-book dollars. million in the first year of the contract.

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