Sentences with phrase «first classroom computer»

I was completely overwhelmed in 1984, when I sat down in front of my first classroom computer — with books and manuals at the ready — and began what I expected to be an extensive process of solitary self - training.

Not exact matches

Instruction: 97 instructional units... including classrooms that all feature smart boards (Dean Rusk MS is CCSD's first school to feature all touchscreen, flat - panel smart boards), computers and additional technology; computer labs; art and music rooms; gymnasium; cafetorium; and a Cyber Café media center and Global Learning Theatre... both featuring CCSD's new prototypical digital learning - friendly design!

South Delta Elementary School is the kind of place Gov. Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi had in mind when he announced that his state was the nation's first to provide an Internet - accessible computer in every public school classroom.

California «When I was first hired to teach technology, I was promised that my classroom would be PC - based and that I would be able to set up the room as I wished,» recalled Lomita, California, computer teacher Sith Nip.

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.

The mid-1990s also saw the rise of the Internet and the first generation of mobile technology, which quickly led to more (connected) computers in the classroom.

Several years ago, I didn't have computers in my first - grade classroom.

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.

Yasmin Kafai, Ed.D.» 93, an education professor at University of Pennsylvania, first explored how game creation and computer programming could be brought together in the classroom while a Harvard graduate student working in the MIT lab of Seymour Papert.

First and foremost, your classroom computers are word processing tools.

First off, the researchers take care not to overinterpret their results, noting, «We do not claim that all computer use in the classroom is harmful.

For example, Emily, a first - grade teacher, made a computer station in her classroom with old laptops that she salvaged from being discarded at her school.

Even in kindergarten and first grade classrooms, minority children from families of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are less likely to attend schools that provide computer access in their classrooms than children in the highest SES groups.

The main goal of her teaching in the first year of this plan was to be able to «check out computers as often as [she] would like and use concept maps, VeeMaps, and clickers (classroom response systems).»

In essence, it is a partnership of charter school chains Uncommon Schools, KIPP, and Achievement First... Relay's «curriculum» mostly consists of taking the non-certified faculty of the charter schools, giving them computer - delivered modules on classroom management (and distributing copies of Teach Like a Champion), and placing them under the auspices of the «no excuses» brand of charter school operation and teachers who already have experience with it.

First, was classroom access; that is, how many computers per student a teacher had in his or her own classroom.

The preservice teachers enrolled in Dr. Phipps's course were K - 12 students during the 1980s and 1990s, a time when personal computers were first introduced into K - 12 classrooms.

Halpin (1999), for example, discovered that the integration of technology into elementary teaching methods courses increased the probability that preservice teachers transferred the computer skills into the classroom during their first year teaching, as compared to those who learned computer skills in isolation.

During the first quarter of this school year, 60 percent of all computers installed in classrooms ran Chrome OS, Google's cut - rate operating system for PCs.