Sentences with phrase «classroom computers by»

And the district has stopped obtaining classroom computers by collecting out - of - date machines discarded by other school districts.

The School Superintendents Association (AASA) has sponsored an exciting project called Safe Classroom, which is powered by CrisisGo, to put a safety app on every classroom computer by the end of 2018, for free.

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The method, which he has tried in classrooms in the U.K., Italy and the U.S., begins by dividing kids into groups of four, and giving each group a computer with Internet access.

«Investments in computers and other technology can be used to close the achievement gap by bringing the technology of today and tomorrow into the classroom,» the report says.

One of the most promising sources of free classroom lessons we've seen recently is Curriki, created by the computer giant Sun Microsystems.

Teachers can fix some of the problems by establishing noise level standards (or a cool website to monitor classroom noise levels), taking loud activities outside in consideration of other classes, putting up sound - dampening wall - hangings or flags, or turning off noise - making computers and LCD projectors.

Skype in the Classroom, for example, (owned by Microsoft) brings computer science experts into classrooms over Skype's video technology, many of whom hail from Microsoft itself.

Cathy Davidson, author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn, encourages us to ask: «What is happening in the classroom that could not be duplicated by a computer?»

Rather than removing them from the classroom, our teacher Mrs. Swenson discreetly removed me from the situation by asking me to help her get something from the computer lab.

We find that allowing any computer usage in the classroom — even with strict limitations — reduces students» average final - exam performance by roughly one - fifth of a standard deviation.

In contrast, our study directly measures the effect of a common classroom policy decision (that is, to allow computers or not) by comparing classrooms that permit computers to classrooms that prohibit computers.

To be sure, Internet - connected computers may enhance the learning environment in some cases, and a 2006 study by Miri Barak, Alberta Lipson, and Steven Lerman suggests that students enjoy having computers in the classroom.

Founded in 2002 by Rick Ogston, former president of the Arizona Charter School Association, Carpe Diem explored a «blended» learning model, combining computer - assisted instruction with redesigned classrooms.

Some 400,000 teachers worldwide will be trained to apply computers and Windows - based software to classroom lessons, under a three - year philanthropic initiative led by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., both companies announced last week.

Note: This activity can be completed as a class activity in a lab setting, or, in a one - computer classroom, by having students take turns completing the assignment.

I was walking through a university in Melbourne and, as I was taking the escalator up to the floor where I was giving my talk, I passed a couple of classrooms that have glass walls so I could look into the classroom, and it's the first day of exams so the scene I saw in there, even though I didn't know it was the first day of exams, I could recognise it right away: desks separated by a metre or two, bare tables with just a piece of paper, an eraser and a pen; no calculators, no computers, nothing; students cut off from each other; students cut off from any source of information.

Indianapolis, Indiana Kids invent their own projects by conducting research with computers, raising funds for classroom tools, and involving themselves in community initiatives.

K - 12 teachers can obtain classroom support, teacher training, digital equipment such as Flip cameras and computers by reaching out to college projects related to such topics as classroom 2.0, multimedia literacy, participatory culture, social media, or even digital learning science.

You can help more families to complete their FAFSA by hosting a financial aid night in a classroom or computer lab and having people there to guide them through the process.

A total of 437 eighth graders were randomly assigned by classroom to the treatment group, which utilized the computer game DimensionM as a supplement to regular classroom instruction, or to the control group, which received regular class instruction without any computer activities.

«After a brief overview using my classroom computers, I send them home with a USB bracelet provided by the vendor that contains the design software.

Discover what computer skills kindergarteners should learn — and what activities you can use to teach them — in this column by a 30 - year veteran of kindergarten and technology classrooms.

This begs the question of why we're not evolving at a faster rate if there are, by Apple's count, 1.5 million iPads in American classrooms and increased funding for 1:1 computer initiatives in all public schools?

One study published by MIT recently showed a negative correlation between student performance in exams and frequent use of computers and tablets in classrooms.

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Student computer use often involves situations not covered by regular classroom rules — and the rules those situations require might not occur to you ahead of time.

Second, professional development can promote quality technology integration and learning by minimizing the importance of computers within professional development and concentrating instead on the core areas of teaching: content, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and classroom management.

For instance, there seems to be little difference between the average class sizes, teachers» levels of education, number of computers in the classroom, and Internet connections in schools attended by blacks versus those attended by whites.

By effectively bringing online experts into classrooms, schools can mitigate the effects of teacher shortages by continuing to expose students to relevant coursework and cutting edge insights, especially in quickly evolving industries like computer science and STEM subjectBy effectively bringing online experts into classrooms, schools can mitigate the effects of teacher shortages by continuing to expose students to relevant coursework and cutting edge insights, especially in quickly evolving industries like computer science and STEM subjectby continuing to expose students to relevant coursework and cutting edge insights, especially in quickly evolving industries like computer science and STEM subjects.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

The book, which was written by teachers, offers basic technical information on using computers, step - by - step instructions for creating a page on the Internet's World Wide Web, grant information, and ideas for classroom activities that attempt to go beyond prepackaged programs.

How classroom computer use affects student learning By Susan Payne Carter, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael S. Walker

The event, hosted by Discovery Education at the school, saw pupils get hands on with classroom technology to create exciting new computer games.

At the Brooke schools, computer science is treated as a core academic subject, taught by classroom teachers at each grade level, not by specialists.

That you have a way to aggregate classroom data, check to see how individual students are doing, and make decisions about reteaching by looking at a computer monitor.

Sure, some classrooms can have now a computer or two, but in many ways, the schools attended by today's children are indistinguishable from the ones where their parents and grandparents expend their school time.

We focused on science teachers who were participating in a program created by Concord Consortium that was designed to introduce probes, sensors, and computer - based models into low - resource classrooms.

Online material labeled «D» may only be displayed for use by an Authorized User on a classroom computer, whiteboard, or a home computer of parent or guardian of a current student.

Online Material labeled «D» may only be displayed by an Authorized User on a classroom computer or whiteboard.

Have we just brought computer labs into classrooms, or are we making learning personalised and mobile by shifting the context and culture?

K12 sells a variety of ways to learn online, ranging from hybrid schools — in which students meet in a classroom but take courses via computer — to a la carte courses purchased by traditional schools.

Our 18 career and technology - based courses, which range from Cyber Security, Nursing, and Computer Automated Drafting and Design to Auto Diagnostics and Brick Block Masonry, are taught by industry experts who bring invaluable on - the - job experience with them to the classroom.

The MassCUE and M.A.S.S. 2014 Annual Technology Conference, co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Computer Using Educators (MassCUE) and the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents (M.A.S.S.) is held annually to connect educators from across New England in an effort to improve the use of technology in our classrooms.

Work to alter the curriculum is now under way after the government accepted the recommendations made by the Donaldson review, which will see computer programming and IT become as central to classroom teaching as literacy and numeracy.

One student wrote, «There is only one computer in the classroom, making it difficult for me to do any internet activities in the classroom,» a situation not only voiced and explored by these preservice teachers but by many veteran educators, as well (Swenson et al., 2006).

This was one of the questions that prompted me, in 1997, to move my English language arts methods classes into a computer classroom, specifically as a response to the NCATE technology task force's mandate for teacher educators to make themselves role models of lifelong learning by integrating technology into practice.

Yes, maybe there are superstar teachers in Silicon Valley who never get rattled by computer viruses, inspire their students with thrilling lab simulations and connect their classroom with Nobel Prize - winning researchers.

School schedule, lack of knowledge about ways to integrate educational computer games into the classroom, school culture, lack of personal technology skills, and parents were each identified as perceived major barriers by fewer than 20 % of participants.

Yet, by 1999 computers had still made only minor impacts on instruction in K - 12 classrooms.

Between teaching and K12, Paul managed corporate training departments, and developed classroom, computer - based, and web - based training products that have been used by companies such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, and Novell.