Sentences with phrase «internet use in the school»

This guide provides a comprehensive approach to Internet use in the school, as well as information on Internet use policies and legal issues related to student and teacher use of the Internet.

Among the seven countries with the highest level of internet use in school, it found three experienced «significant declines» in reading performance - Australia, New Zealand and Sweden - and three more had results that had «stagnated» - Spain, Norway and Denmark.

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He has been using the Internet since 1977, was a co-founder of FTP Software in 1986, and worked on the design team of Harvard Business School's «Foundations» program.

In 2012, Facebook launched Facebook Groups specifically tailored to schools — creating a «walled garden» that students frequently use to promote school spirit and create next - level internet memes.

And last time I checked, England is still synonymous with Great Britain... Andrew, I hope you're either in grade school, or you forgot that you need a special pass with one of the nurses to use the internet!

Your pediatrician will also likely discuss other important topics, such as how your child is doing in school and he or she will do counseling about nutrition, safety, injury prevention, avoiding using drugs, depression, alcohol and cigarettes, puberty and sex education, and being safe on the Internet.

We understand smart phones provide an invaluable reference with the Internet in our palms, but ask any high school student and even they will tell you it is not acceptable to cheat by using the phone for any reason during a test or in this case a debate.

Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis criticized several aspects of the City's Department of Education (DoE) today, including the use of consultants and poor performance in installing internet and wireless service in schools.

The new libraries have already been opened for use in the respective schools with facilities such as new furniture, books, computer systems and internet facilities to improve the learning experience of the students, as well as solar powered inverters for consistent power.

Whether looking for an online dictionary or help in using the Internet to do school work, students will find it on the homework pages.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

David Moss, as coordinator of teaching at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, had set up the first UK - based university course in a biological subject to be taught entirely using the Internet: «Principles of Protein Structure.»

I love quotes — I used to have books of quotes in high school, before the internet LOL!

Once four or five computers are available in every classroom and labs allow entire classes of students to visit and do research at any time during the school day, then the use of the Internet in our classes and schools will take off.

These projects connect them with nature in their own backyards and school yards and use the Internet to create human connections with other students in the United States and around the world for a better understanding of our global ecosystem.

Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world - leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools.

Schools in the Chappaqua (N.Y.) Central School District «agonized over whether to use filtering or not prior to making their Internet connection,» Michael Greenfield told Education World.

Glavac: The book, which has become a best - seller, is being used by schools at the elementary and high school level, in college and university Internet courses, and in teacher pre-service courses.

Most students now have access to computers and the Internet in their classrooms, nearly all students have access somewhere in their schools, and a majority of teachers report using computers or the Internet for instructional purposes.

Launched on 2nd July it is aimed as a tool for use by teachers now to encourage young people to use the internet safely over the summer holidays, and in the new school year to reinforce messages about online safety and support the curriculum in English, with cross curricular pointers to ICT, PSHCE and Media Studies.

(Case in point: one Racine high school student last year made a video of a fight and posted it to YouTube using his cell phone — no school Internet access needed.)

Revisiting the AUP: A Digital Double Take In the beginning, when the Internet was new, many schools attempted to keep online students safe by establishing strict standards and rules known as acceptable use policies (AUPs).

Accountability, assurance and safety Over and above specialist products aimed directly at schools, technology that we take for granted such as the internet — and increasingly — mobile banking have great potential for use in schools.

In fact, 51 per cent of secondary pupils and 60 per cent of primary pupils felt that using a tablet or other device at schools every day made them more aware of using the internet safely.

Using Excel and Internet sources, middle school students determine how many vampires might exist in the world based on current census data.

Teachers and the PD facilitator can connect virtually using equipment — laptop, projector, internet access — that most schools already have in place.

Change the culture of your school — if you're going to educate pupils about how to use the internet safely, you should get their buy - in and help them understand why and how they should use the school's systems rather than their own.

What happens outside school — using the Internet, playing video games, meeting friends or working in the household — can also have a social, and sometimes antisocial, component.

Although safety should remain an important aspect of AUPs, such policies should also promote effective use of the Internet and ensure that every student benefits fully from the substantial investments schools have made in educational technology.

Thanks to a large grant in 2000 from BellSouth (now AT&T South), the school now has Internet access and multiple computers in every classroom, as well as a project lab with computers and a library that can accommodate heavier computer use.

The United States is among the leaders in the world in providing access to school computers, but it lags behind some other nations in frequency of school computer use and Internet availability at school, an Education Week report set for release this week concludes.

Roughly 17 million children and teens have Internet access in their homes, and most of them use it daily for everything from researching school projects to playing online games to sending instant messages or chatting with their classmates.

From the start of the autumn term, all schools will be expected to ensure appropriate internet filters and monitoring systems are in place to protect pupils from potentially harmful or inappropriate content, and should have a clear policy on the use of mobile technology.

These nascent rules — from acceptable - use policies created by school districts to guide students on the Internet to basic manners instructions for students with school email accounts — have begun to show up in official documents.

Despite the many teachers in the ABC school system that have already embedded the use of computers and the internet into their lessons the effective use and integration of these technologies are still quite slow.

This 17 - page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.

This new online resource enables schools to provide enterprise grade network protection, allowing children to learn using the internet and e-Learning resources in a safe and secure environment.Real - time web filters cut - out inappropriate content on the internet, ensuring it remains out of the reach of children, while an additional firewall protects from external threats.

As is regular practice in many schools part of the education process also involves research using the Internet and access to external websites and social media such as You Tube.

This ready - to - print 17 - page booklet contains also many activities that you will be able to use all the year round to work on topics such as How to use the Internet safely, the importance of Healthy Food, what is Friendship, Reading strategies... I recommend this resource especially for students in secondary or middle school.

Consider the school personnel who already understand, intuitively, how this principle works: the music teacher whose program has been cut in order to fund computer labs; the principal who has had to beef up security in order to protect high - priced technology; the superintendent who has had to craft an «acceptable use» agreement that governs children's use of the Internet (and for the first time in our history renounces the school's responsibility for the material children are exposed to while in school).

«The survey reveals a dramatic increase in the number of kids online at home and demonstrates a great reservoir of support for the use of the Internet in school.

Parents expect that schools will use the Internet in well - thought - out, educationally valuable ways.

As Nancy Willard, Internet safety expert and writer of acceptable use policies for her school district, observed, «Be sure to include due process information in your policy.

Most schools and colleges in India make use of the internet and they basically use it for conducting online exams and quizzes.

«Because kids are online at home, parents have heightened expectations for their use of the Internet in school.

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) passed in 1999, requires schools qualifying for federal E-rate funding to use filtering technology to block access to materials that are «obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.»

In 1999, Congress passed the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), requiring schools qualifying for federal E-rate funding to use filtering technology to block access to materials that are «obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors.»

The gap is becoming a crisis in schools where leadership has supported or initiated purchasing initiatives (especially such high - profile technologies as tablets, laptops, Internet - connected handhelds and such high - volume technologies as handhelds and AlphaSmart) that create expectations within the school community, and then has failed to articulate or energize a vision for using those technologies.

However, reflect for a moment on how young people have evolved in their use of the internet or the similarity of the organisational evolution in other industries and you'll begin to appreciate why in an increasingly digital and networked world, schools, as complex organisations, will evolve globally in a similar manner.

Teachers in those schools can use e-mail or a toll - free telephone number to ask any question relating to computers and Internet use in the classroom.