Sentences with phrase «middle school computer»

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Ken and his family were intimately associated with Moses Brown School from 1981 until 2000, where he worked as a fourth grade teacher, then as a middle school computer teacher, and finally as a network and administrative support specialist.

What we should be doing is somehow changing the middle school computer science curriculum or something like that.

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-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high schools and middle schools used by hundreds of thousands of students

At a young age, Gates showed an avid interest in computers, spending as much time as possible in his middle school's computer lab.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Systrom grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and first dabbled in computer programming while in middle school.

So much of what I do is on the other side of a computer, just me pecking away here at my sticky laptop in the middle of my pink 90s kitchen while Evelynn naps and the older tinies are at school.

To Equip Classrooms with SMART Boards, Laptops, Other Instructional Tools QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz announced an allocation of over $ 5 million of her Fiscal Year 2016 discretionary capital funds to provide SMART Boards, laptop computers and other tech devices to public elementary and middle schools in the borough.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

Students at the Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School in central New York are learning computer coding through a program developed by a local nonprofit.

The first describes Operation Reboot, a $ 2.5 million, federally funded program to train middle - aged, out - of - work computer professionals for jobs as high school computer teachers.

First to support herself — and then because she had a knack for it — she became a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, teaching mathematics, English, computer science, and American history, primarily at a middle school in «a very rough neighborhood.&School District, teaching mathematics, English, computer science, and American history, primarily at a middle school in «a very rough neighborhood.&school in «a very rough neighborhood.»

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Computers used in the workplace are not suited for the classroom, because in most cases they're fragile and too big for elementary and middle school students» desks, says Tony Salvadore, a senior principal engineer with Intel who is also a psychologist and anthropologist.

Researchers introduced four interactive online science units, which students and teachers accessed with computers or tablets, into 13 middle school in two US states.

By middle school she had learned ways to model — or represent using a computer program — how objects move and change over time.

Introduction to Neural Engineering: Neuroprosthetics & Brain - Computer Interfaces was created in 2014 and is aimed at high school students and advanced middle school students.

And if a middle school math teacher can't wear a computer on his wrist, who can, right?!

I would love to put it towards the Surface Pro for my daughter, she is in middle school and loves drawing on the computer.

Are you an «old school» art teacher who needs a cheap and easy way to get your middle school art students started in computer graphics?

Middle school students who received a computer - enhanced PBL unit had a better understanding of science concepts and felt more confident about being successful learners (Liu, Hsieh, Cho, & Schallert, 2006).

Earlier in the year, I had our middle school Parent / Teacher conferences, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that 99 percent of my students (most of whom are Title I) have a computer in the home.

EcoMUVE also builds on Dede's interest in virtual and shared learning environments, as exemplified by earlier projects like River City, a science - based interactive computer simulation designed for middle - schoolers.

We'll just write a check and buy a computer for a middle school and hope it helps.»»

Students and teachers at Lowes Grove Middle School also became more conscious of shutting off lights and computers, said principal Kathy Kirkpatrick.

Drawing on the results of computer - adaptive tests given periodically throughout the year, the 7th and 8th grade humanities teacher and her students at Oak Valley Middle School in San Diego set classroom goals that target the areas the youngsters struggle with the most.

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

Berea Middle School, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameSchool, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameschool's parent population at the same time.

Six years ago, the district placed computers in most elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

The School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and so on.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

Marty Pettigrew, a computer instructor for Covington Middle School in Covington, Tennessee, has also used Quia to reinforce skills taught in the classroom.

The International Business Machines Corporation is testing a new, computer - based instructional system that is designed to help middle - school students understand the relationships between music, mathematics, and science.

Much can be learned from the theoretical frameworks discussed here, which can be used as a guide for future research into the efficacy of computer - assisted reading interventions on struggling middle school students.

Fortunately, the 2002 Maine Learning Technology Initiative, a partnership between the state and Apple Computer, equips every public middle school student with a wireless laptop cComputer, equips every public middle school student with a wireless laptop computercomputer.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

For example, a middle school student who broke his arm was permitted to take tests on a computer in the classroom.

After computer teacher Victoria Kozlek had her eighth - grade students at Southern Columbia Middle School, in Catawissa, Pennsylvania, write fundraising letters to local businesses, Digital Wish let her choose from dozens of software programs donated by its partner vendors.

We also provided them with Office 365 and created a new interactive multimedia room in the middle school which had 27 inch Dell touchscreen computers running Windows 8.

Researchers from Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, found paper - and - pencil writing tests did not accurately measure the abilities of middle school students who were accustomed to doing most of their writing on a computer.

Almost one - and - a-half years after laptops began flooding Maine's middle schools, students, teachers, principals, and parents across the Pine Tree State are relaying success stories for which the portable computers are credited.

In a study I undertook in 1989, I found that 12 percent of the elementary and middle school magnet programs in my sample specialized in basic skills and / or individualized teaching; 11 percent offered foreign language immersion; 11 percent were science -, math -, or computer - oriented; 10 percent catered to the gifted and talented and 10 percent to the creative and performing arts; 8 percent were traditional, back - to - basics programs (demanding, for instance, dress codes and contracts with parents for supervision of homework); 7 percent were college preparatory; 7 percent were early childhood and Montessori.

Despite the fact that few high schools in the United States offer courses in computer programming (and even fewer middle schools and elementary schools), many resources are available for teachers and parents to help their children learn this digital foreign language.

On - line resources can help elementary and middle school students produce better work than that of students who have access only to computers, a study released last week concludes.

Today Room to Read operates in Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia, focusing on resourcing communities in five areas: creating and stocking libraries, publishing children's books in local languages, constructing schools, establishing long - term girls» scholarships, and building computer and language labs.

Hooper, a former computer skills teacher at Columbia (North Carolina) Middle School, is now an author and researcher for Teacher Created Materials.