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Spring Apple sale: Save up to $900 on select products - @the U
17+ hour, 23+ min ago (364+ words) Whether you're graduating soon and need a professional upgrade or looking to streamline your note-taking with a new i Pad, this is our biggest event of the season. Experience the latest in Apple silicon. The newest Mac Book Pro M5 is…...
Tennessee school board member censured after calling student 'hot"
8+ hour, 51+ min ago (133+ words) Tennessee school board member censured after calling student 'hot'NBC News Tennessee school board member censured after calling student 'hot' Deadly explosion rocks Panama Canal bridge Rapper Lil Tjay arrested in connection with Offset shooting in Florida U. S. military orders all offensive…...
Tablets in kindergarten, Taylor Swift in class. Is this what we want?
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (924+ words) Parents are growing increasingly frustrated with screens and technology in their children's classrooms. But is this technology-induced panic warranted? State Rep. Jake Teshka, R-New Liberty, is on a fact-finding mission to better understand the role and impact of devices in…...
PENNS MANOR SCHOOL BOARD TO DISCUSS SUMMER SCHOOL HIRES, CHROMEBOOK PURCHASES TONIGHT
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (127+ words) WCCS AM1160 & 101. 1 FM Welcome to WCCS FM 101. 1 and AM 1160 PENNS MANOR SCHOOL BOARD TO DISCUSS SUMMER SCHOOL HIRES, CHROMEBOOK PURCHASES TONIGHT The Penns Manor School Board will meet tonight and on the agenda are several items related to summer school. Members…...
Hays USD 489 board approves i Pad purchases, construction work
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (451+ words) The Hays USD 489 approved a request for $347, 160 to replace student and staff i Pads at Hays Middle School at its meeting on Monday night. The $347, 160 purchase is part of the district's budgeted four-year rotation of school devices. Scott Summers, USD…...
Evanston parents share disappointment in D65s new i Pad purchase
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (553+ words) Some Evanston/Skokie District 65 parents have expressed disappointment about the Board of Education's recent approval of the purchase of 1, 231 i Pads for students." On March 23, the board approved an about $528, 279 purchase of the i Pads and accompanying keyboard cases to…...
Abby Mc Closkey: Classroom i Pads are teaching kids the wrong skills
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (281+ words) I'm going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, skepticism later (and then only maybe). That's led to a generation of kids being…...
More and More Schools Are Souring on Chromebooks
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (670+ words) A Kansas middle school that once handed every student a Chromebook is now rolling them back, and it's part of a wider rethinking of classroom tech. The New York Times. .. More and More Schools Are Souring on Chromebooks A Kansas…...
Textbooks v screens: Parents are now questioning the use of classroom tech
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (1154+ words) TEXTBOOKS AND PENCILS are back: That was a line in The New York Times article this week which detailed a "tech backlash" in one US school over the use of digital devices in everyday learning." The newspaper article reported how…...
Classroom i Pads are teaching kids the wrong skills
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (310+ words) I'm going to say something from my firsthand experience as a mom: Schools have a terrible track record with screens. It tends to be adoption first, skepticism later (and then only maybe). That's led to a generation of kids being…...