Sentences with phrase «computer labs»

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

Often computer labs were not available for the professional development sessions, so teachers used printed primary sources about half of the time when participating in the model activities.

While it is a worthwhile goal to train preservice teachers as «savvy consumers of technology,» teachers are rarely in positions of authority to make purchasing decisions and are often limited by acceptable use policies set at the district level, including filters and insufficient technology support and maintenance or access to computer labs.

Let's Go Learn can make individual student assessment or widespread universal diagnosis possible with products that are easy to use and scalable to entire schools or districts, using your existing computer labs and classroom installations.

Through referendum funds, many of our District computer labs have been upgraded and students have access to new desktop computers, printers, 3 - D printers and relevant learning software.

At the middle and high school, two computer labs allow students the opportunities to have computer instruction and also to work independently at online courses and for other projects.

Photos Courtesy Of Steelcase Education Personal computers begat school computer labs.

This included supervision over adding classroom computers and upgrading computer labs; led teams of teachers and counselors in the development of a master schedule including special education scheduling.

We offer access to two computer labs and mobile classroom computer labs, as well as, a school health readiness component.

Teachers report that as computer labs and classrooms with computers have been converted to testing factories, students taking courses that require access to those computers have been sent to the library, cafeteria or hallways to wait for the testing periods to come to an end.

Several Boston - area schools have installed Lexia VS in their computer labs and agreed to try it out on students for two - and - a-half hours a week throughout the school year.

At this time, the regular budget is used to replace computer labs, which takes place every three to five years.

Schools can make computer labs available during afterschool hours, however, and parental assistance is less critical when watching an online video than when solving homework problems.

A library / media center, computer labs and science lab are available for all students.

Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings Using wage and staffing data from states, authors Marguerite Roza and Suzanne Simburg project the financial and staffing implications of one innovative school model (the Rocketship lab rotation) to highlight potential impacts on the schooling workforce...

New computer labs sit idle because overworked teachers have neither the time nor the training needed to make use of them.

It also frees up money for classroom items, computer labs, afterschool sports, and field trips.

At the dawn of the digital era, technology integration in most K — 12 schools boiled down to the presence of computer labs, separate rooms filled with bulky terminals that students could sign up to use.

However, with computer labs on the decline and new technology making its way into classrooms, the development of a new Glogster app for iPad and Android is a welcome addition to the learning environment.

It all started with computer labs in schools, providing students, and even some teachers, access to computers for the first time in their lives.

We plan to equip all our computer labs with the NComputing L300 over the coming months.

This enables Ma'arif to control and support all computer labs centrally, improving speed and effectiveness of maintenance work and minimising any downtime.

The grand jury found that custodial closets, computer labs, teacher's lounges, book storage rooms, alcoves, and even locker rooms have been converted into classrooms.

We're moving away from the notion of computer labs — instead, every square inch of a school can be used to provide space for students to work with technology.

Computers typically sit quietly, unused, in computer labs and in the back of classrooms.

For instance, I housed the animation and web design clusters in the computer labs since we needed the technology while the school's music room, with its carpeted floor, served just fine for the yoga cluster.

Students can read their course materials on their smartphones even while in bed, rather than have to go to the computer labs on the campus before having access to the materials.

I do know that peer tutoring, basic skills reviews, study skills classes, career awareness courses, savvy counselors, the opportunity to tape lectures, access to up - to - date computer labs, and the influence of friends who study before they party made a difference for the kids I know — and that special classes and innovative programs did not.

«The layout of many computer labs does not allow teachers to look over every student's shoulder when students are using the Internet.

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).

Long before arts and crafts met DIY and merged with hacking to become today's maker movement, and before computer labs and libraries were converted into design spaces, English teachers were quietly inspiring students to be designers and creators in the original makerspace: the writing classroom.

Mac.Robertson opened up its computer labs on the day, to give students an extra option.

Students could continue to use them in computer labs or at home, but in normal classes they were of no benefit.

A former superintendent of community schools in the New York City borough of Queens, her husband, and four associates were charged last week in an alleged bribery scheme involving what authorities said were rigged bids for new computer labs.

As a result, the days of computer labs are over.

Students (well, those whose schools were fortunate enough to have computer labs) would learn simple computer languages like BASIC and PASCAL, and perhaps even begin to understand concepts like Boolean logic.

Were these dollars spent across traditional education categories, we'd likely see most dollars go to computer labs and recruiting and training more computer science teachers (which we currently sorely lack).

«Our teachers have made the most improvement in their [level of] use of computer labs for Internet access,» Holmes noted.

Through personal purchase, through parent - teacher groups, through grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computer labs.

Through financial modeling, we've come up with many ways in which schools can get better results without spending more, including by paying their best teachers more, delivering electives in new ways and using computer labs to deliver personalized instruction.

They could also decide to acquire «secure» computer labs, but isolate these from day - to - day classroom instruction.

Not long afterward, Wood left Microsoft to found Books for Nepal, which rapidly developed into Room to Read, an international literacy nonprofit organization that builds bilingual libraries, schools, and computer labs in developing countries.

The building is clean but spare, with two computer labs but not many other bells and whistles.

Quick reference task cards for 12 popular computer commands, perfect for K - 12 technology classes, computer labs, or any classroom with student computers.

Others have sophisticated computer labs with high - speed Internet connections.

In a carefully orchestrated attack, the organization kills or maims scientists in computer labs across the country.

I work for the Columbus Housing Athuroity as a Coordinator for 3 computer labs.

This 10 - day event held in May includes lectures, problem solving, computer labs, and collaborative group projects.

Those might include arts, computer labs, performance spaces, athletic equipment, music.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System is offering six hands - on eReader informational computer labs in addition to all of the regular computer training classes scheduled in libraries this spring and summer.