Sentences with phrase «classroom uses of computers»

Most classroom uses of computers have been evolving in one of two directions: either onto the World Wide Web or into CD - ROMs.

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I know the temptation to catch up on housework or waste the day away sitting on the computer will be great, but I hope to use some of that time every Wednesday to nurture myself (as well as volunteer in Ava's classroom for two hours every other week — see, I can't give up focusing on my kids that easily).

«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.

They will be able to log in using the same username and password they use at school and will see the same desktop that they see in most of our computer labs, libraries and classrooms.

Gamestars Testing fatigue, combined with more pervasive computer use in and out of the classroom and continued experimentation with games as learning tools, suggests that such video games will play a significant role in the future of education.

The contribution Lew and Leland are making can be seen in some of their designs, including «Classmate» — a computer - based, speech - assisted reading and writing program that students can use for taking notes in the classroom — and an accessible Palm PC prototype.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

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.

«There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.»

They are built on the ISTE (iste.org) student standards which are in place to ensure the following... - Practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology - Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity - Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning - Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship They are an essential resource for a computer lab or any classroom to prompt a discussion around technology, ethics and respect.

Not only that, the research is clear that strategies that combine the use of traditional face - to - face classroom methods with computer - mediated activities are here to stay.

With the influence of technology still growing in and outside of the classroom, this also includes the risks and dangers associated with using the internet, computers and devices.

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.

«Every one of our classrooms has a computer for the teacher's use,» said high school webmaster Fred Holmes of the Osceola Public Schools.

«A year ago, our entire faculty attended a one - day seminar on the use of computers in the classroom,» Wagner added.

Computers and mobile devices such as iPads are now an integral part of classroom teaching and are allowing students to work at their own pace and use online and digital applications to do complex work.

Our biggest problem is that, although many teachers want to use computers for classroom instruction, we don't have a way to display computer information to a classroom full of students.

Some of the popular computer programmes used in today's classrooms were originally designed for dyslexic children.

An even greater proportion of respondents (69 %) support the idea of schools in their community providing students with laptop computers for classroom use (Figure 10a).

They included providing the British Computer Society (BCS) with more than # 2 million to set up a network of 400 «master teachers» to train teachers in other schools and provide resources for use in the classroom.

Out of every 10 teachers in this country, fewer than two are serious users of computers and other information technologies in their classrooms (several times a week); three to four are occasional users (about once a month); and the rest — four to five teachers out of every 10 — never use the machines at all.

Using Coleman's classroom computer accounts, we would begin our work a little before midnight, when the costs of computer runs dropped drastically.

Tom Vander Ark joins Marty West to discuss the benefits of technology in schools and why it would be a mistake to reject the use of computers in the classroom.

A typical learner needs analysis may include questions about the current level of performance versus desired level of performance, the Key Performance Indicators or metrics that should be used for evaluation, the existing material or training that learners have already received, technical specifications about the learner's computer or mobile devices, or the classroom size limitations.

In a new article for Education Next, Susan Payne Carter of the United States Military Academy, Major Kyle Greenberg of the Army's Human Resources Command, and Major Michael S. Walker of the Office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense report that allowing computer use in the classroom, even with strict limitations, significantly reduces students» average final - exam performance.

Last year, we highlighted some interesting statistics from the International Computer and Information Literacy Study about the use of social media in the classroom.

Dreeben and Barr describe as «technological» the ways in which teachers form groups and then instruct them; not technological in the sense of using computers or electronic media but in the sense of applying craft knowledge in the pursuit of an occupational end, in this case, the goal of organizing a classroom full of first graders so that they can be taught how to read.

«Using a computer, projector, Web cam, and Google Chat or Skype, classrooms are able to discover the fun of instant response,» reports MacInnes.

Sheet 3 is a computer lesson (could also be done in the classroom) where pupils actively develop their ideas giving opinions, justification and using connectives and more complicated tenses in the context of work experience.

When the topic «Integrating technology in the classroom» comes up, the image that comes to mind is the use of computers in the classroom.

The early adopters, whose work has helped shape the progress of classroom video games, and the skeptics (see «Shut It Off,» below), who rightly urge caution and further study, actually see eye to eye: Both wish to see computer games used in the classroom only if they truly enhance learning and benefit the students who need it most.

Tom Vander Ark joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss the benefits of technology in schools and why it would be a mistake to reject the use of computers in the classroom.

So while using computers to teach computing may be its ideal use in this regard, I would hope that the other ways in which we use computers in the classroom are at least transparent enough for us all to recognize their presence, their impact and their specific role in the design of the lesson.

As at any level of K - 12 education, teachers» technology skills and interest also play a major role in how much computers are used in the high school classroom.

See the Online Games section below for a list of games that can be used in the computer lab, as independent practice and fun, or as tools for setting up individual or team classroom competitions.

The Regents last year appointed the 15 - member panel to prepare recommendations for bringing state influence to bear on what is now the rapid but scattered growth of computer use in classrooms.

While schools have worked hard to integrate computers into the classroom and many do a great job teaching students how they work, many schools do not even consider teaching the art / science of using a keyboard.

The most frequently cited obstacle to classroom technology use was a shortage of classroom computers.

When in the 1990s computers became big business for schools and technology providers, a few skeptics such as Todd Oppenheimer (author of The Flickering Mind) urged caution and thrift, marshaling evidence of hype and waste in the purchase and use of tools in the classroom.

A few computers also sit at the backs of classrooms, for kids to use, if time allows, after the teacher is finished teaching the core lesson.

Provided as seven separate PDF documents: • Fundamentals of algorithms • Programming • Fundamentals of data representation • Computer systems • Fundamentals of computer networks • Fundamentals of cyber security • Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy These are ideal to use in the classroom, as homework tasks or for independent study as revision for the examiComputer systems • Fundamentals of computer networks • Fundamentals of cyber security • Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy These are ideal to use in the classroom, as homework tasks or for independent study as revision for the examicomputer networks • Fundamentals of cyber security • Ethical, legal and environmental impacts of digital technology on wider society, including issues of privacy These are ideal to use in the classroom, as homework tasks or for independent study as revision for the examinations.

According to our 2017 Poll, 69 percent of respondents support the idea of schools in their community providing students with laptop computers for classroom use.

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.

EdNext found that 77 percent of parents support schools in their community providing students with laptop computers for classroom use, though only 33 percent support allowing students to use their smartphones in the classroom.

That assistance is available at a time when, according to information from PLATO Learning, only 1/3 of teachers report that they feel prepared to use computers for classroom instruction, and 77 percent report spending 32 or fewer hours on technology - related professional development activities.

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

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.

This report reviews evidence on K - 12 classroom technology use and is organized according to media platforms: interactive whiteboards, classroom response systems (clickers), video games, simulations, modeling, augmented reality, virtual worlds, mobile devices, data analysis tools, calculators, 1:1 ratio of computers to students, computer - assisted instruction (where a computer presents instruction or remediation), virtual learning, and educational television.

Sixty - three percent of K - 12 teachers use technology in the classroom daily, with laptops and computers being the most commonly used resource.

«There are [schools] that have one computer for 30 kids or a computer lab that they have access to three times a month,» says Sara Schapiro, director of the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of school districts that are making heavy use of technology in classrooms.