A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2012

The Adobe Educators’ Choice Awards feature distinguished judges who will select the finalists, voting by members (who will select the winners), and amazing prizes, including laptops, iPads, and Adobe Creative Suite 6 software for you and your classroom. The contest began this week and the submission period ends October 5, 2012.

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They are looking for educators --primary or secondary school teachers, university professors, tutors, and homeschooling parents--to tell us about the fun and exciting ways they use Wolfram|Alpha to engage students. Wolfram , the company behind Wolfram Alpha and other educational services and apps, has a great contest for educators.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2014

When I landed in New Hampshire, I was eager to see competency-based education in action at the secondary level. I walked in a 4 th grade class and noticed that each student had an iPad. With my interest piqued, I moved on to a girl sitting alone working on what looked like a diagram on her iPad.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 12, 2012

There are four categories: Primary and Secondary, Higher Education, and Creative Suite 6. Prizes include laptop (Macbook Pro) Adobe software Digital Camera and iPads with prizes in each category. Submit your projects, lesson plans, curricula, tutorials, and more. Educators will rate the work submitted.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 23, 2012

Now, ten years on, more and more schools are finding the resources to offer their students a laptop each, and some schools are trail blazing by providing iPads for each of their learners. One such school, Cedars School of Excellence, in Greenock, Scotland has discovered that providing an iPad for each of its children has many benefits.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 24, 2012

Much interest was shown in yesterday's post iPad or iFad? It focused on whether schools should provide iPads for all their students. The main objection against one iPad per child projects is that there is little evidence to show that the new devices actually improve learning gain.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Why does Wendy prefer markers and paper over iPads? Using Visual Notes in the Secondary Classroom – a how-to post from Wendy Pillars. Essential Questions: Edusketching: A Tool to Help Students Understand Complex Concepts. What is the difference between visual notetaking and edusketching?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We used some of the lessons from the free elective teachers’ guide and the guide for secondary teachers. I want to incorporate tools and resources from Google Earth, Tinkercad, Code.org, ScratchJr and others to be used with Chromebooks and iPads. Not every school has a Mac or iPad for every student.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. Donor’s Choose.

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wwwatanabe

APRIL 1, 2013

Click to download Read with a Pen -- Primary Click to download Read with a Pen -- Secondary Annotating with iPads For annotating with iPads, the students could take a photo of the text, then annotate using various apps. Educreations is an iPad app that can also be accessed from your browser.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 11, 2016

I streamed the secondary school’s head of science performing a heart dissection lesson. It was part of our transition program in which, near the end of the academic year, we take Year 6 pupils to see what life in the Secondary School is like. I set up my iPad on a stand and was ready to film. World Maths Day.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 11, 2016

I streamed the secondary school’s head of science performing a heart dissection lesson. It was part of our transition program in which, near the end of the academic year, we take Year 6 pupils to see what life in the Secondary School is like. I set up my iPad on a stand and was ready to film. World Maths Day.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

It has become a familiar argument between those who believe children intuitively learn to type (“see them on smartphones and iPads–they don’t need help”) and those of us who believe instruction makes them better, faster. This topic that is close to my tech teacher soul.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

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.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 8, 2020

And instead of using a school bus, students use technologies like laptops, iPads, and digital platforms like Zoom and Schoology to come to their teachers. And in the hope that the pandemic does not squash the ability to learn and grow all together, educators are implementing an entirely new style of learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We also have posters printed to put up in specific areas, such as the hallways, bathrooms, classrooms, auditorium, outdoor play areas, and even on the iPad and laptop trolleys. These also focus on the positive behaviors we’d like to see in those areas, which are all based on our four values.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. By and large, it’s working.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2017

Now, all secondary students are issued a Chromebook that is theirs to keep—even during the summer. We use Chromebook carts for K-5 students and offer iPad carts that teachers can check out on demand. There’s no staff buy-in.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

The elementary English teacher who is using a blended learning approach in her classroom, for example, has come to rely on that cart of fully-charged iPads or Chromebooks that’s rolled into her classroom at 8 a.m., ready for a full day of tech-based instruction. It’s not always easy.”. This system works pretty well for us,” said McEntire.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

My students make apps for iPhone and iPad and put them up on the App Store. That’s why we engage our students from the start in a process of designing apps to help others — a process in which coding and programming are essential, but secondary to developing empathy and process-oriented design skills. >>

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myViewBoard

APRIL 26, 2021

Classroom works from most web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera) for most devices (Windows, Linux, Chromebook, Mac, Android, iPad OS, iOS). These two elements are simplified and presented in Classroom with two browser tabs/windows – the primary one is the digital whiteboard, the secondary one displays the students.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2017

A few weeks ago, I was given an advanced copy of Lisa Johnson’s new book, Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students. Lisa also works in a district with a large iPad initiative, so she has included lots of tips and workflows for the iPads in her book. edchat Click To Tweet.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program. Jobs’ launch of the iPhone in 2007 led to a revolution in mobile computing. Flash-forward to March of 2020.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Notion is a great tool for teachers and secondary students. However, there is great potential for secondary students to utilize this platform. What’s Possible in Notion In other applications, handwritten digital notes from an iPad or tablet must be converted or saved as an image. The more she learns, the more she loves it!

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The money is used to buy SMART boards, Chromebook carts, iPad carts and replace old desktop computers. For Lake Central this means that at the same time each new loan is approved, an old one is being paid off. So there is no increase in cost to taxpayers.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The money is used to buy SMART boards, Chromebook carts, iPad carts and replace old desktop computers. For Lake Central this means that at the same time each new loan is approved, an old one is being paid off. So there is no increase in cost to taxpayers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

The New England Secondary Schools Consortium has been collecting commitments from the region’s colleges to ward off these worries. And transcripts still include traditional grades so that families – and colleges – can see something familiar.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Justin will be the opening Keynote on November 18th at our EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in Boston ! As part of my work with the new MIT Teaching Systems Lab and our partners, the Woodrow Wilson Academy for Teaching and Learning, I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to prepare a teacher candidate for their first year teaching.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

I use Buncee with my school iPad to make and edit the image. I downloaded the app when I received my school iPad from our Library Media Specialist ( @DebZemanLMS ), after seeing it on Self Service, an app store used in our district to make sure we download apps for education purposes. What device do you use Buncee with? Tisha Poncio.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

At Anastasis , we are a 1-1 iPad setting, this works really well for us, but we also have a population where we can request a device in a BYOD situation. One of our struggling students (happens to be dyslexic) has a broken iPad and used the MobyMax for the last two weeks in his 7th grade year. Join us for 5-Sigma Edu Con in February!

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RafranzDavis.com

MARCH 11, 2017

” “If you want to find an app faster, you can just search the ipad or double tap the home screen button twice. By the way, if you are on an ipad or have an iphone, download their artwork here. The first grader’s ability to navigate their own creativity is a thing of beauty in and of itself.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 3, 2019

Dr. Neelam Parmar is a Director of E-learning for Primary & Secondary Schools. It offers iPad to browser sharing so that students can participate from anywhere and communicate in real time. The network infrastructure may need to be upgraded to handle efficient, real-time communication. Dr. Neelam Parmar.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 14, 2013

I was able to learn the app very quickly this weekend in preparation for introducing it to secondary fine arts teachers from my school district this morning. Here is the Gami I created as a demo during a fine arts teacher inservice this morning, saved as a a file to my iPad, and then uploaded to YouTube.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Classroom teachers are using tools like Google Apps for Education, iCloud, Moodle, Office365, Chromebooks, iPads at an ever increasing rate. There are two ways you can "backup" your information: "Share" your information with a secondary account. For teachers, this is especially true.

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Graphite Blog

MARCH 21, 2019

And, you know, these other accounts -- these "secondary" accounts – are becoming so prevalent. JK: So, for the most part, it seems like sixth-graders already know about secondary accounts, like finstas or spam accounts or whatever they want to call them. SL: So I like to use my iPad to present to a separate display.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

This summer and fall, we want to introduce you to our EdTechTeacher instructors and some of our EdTechTeacher iPad Summit Boston Featured Speakers in a new series called #ETTchat. In my classroom, students learn math through a spiralled , task based approach and have access to a class set of iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. million toward new iPads for every student in K-5 and all staff pre-K-8. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid. Oliver Robinson.

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