Sentences with phrase «school devices like»

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And there's a good chance that the device, which offers old - school gaming for today's televisions, like Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, will be hard to find, based on early pre-orders.

BREAKING: Pres. Trump says he's directed AG Sessions to propose regulations to «ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns» like the bump stocks used in the Las Vegas mass shooting (which were not used in last week's Florida school shooting) pic.twitter.com / q3sqcetfCV

Fuji - Xerox has figured out how to make color e-paper, meaning devices that use e-ink (like the old - school Kindle) could soon see a massive, colorful upgrade.

Griffin said it was the first time he used a device like that since high school.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

If you were old school, like me, you just pumped from your nursing bra, but held the bottles and got nothing else done, except for developing cramps from trying to hold a phone or device at the same time.

A bill to criminalize tampering with an electronic monitoring device — like the one David Renz dismantled before he murdered a school librarian — likely will not become state law this year.

«Outstanding issues include under - investment in school technology infrastructure, significant inequities in allocation of Fair Student Funding dollars, disparities in gifted and talented education, resistance to training and support for new learning devices like tablets, inaction on liberalizing school space usage policy for community - based organizations, and poor community notification on significant changes to school utilization,» Adams said.

Theo Allen, a math student at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering who attended Tuesday's event, said he'll be participating in the competition, and mentioned three technologies he'll look at: a gun that can be locked using a smart phone app; a gun activated by a fingerprint reader; and a gun that can only be used if triggered by a digital chip embedded in a nearby device, like a ring.

University Professor of Applied Physics Stephen Arnold and his team at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering have made a discovery that could lead to Star Trek - like biosensor devices capable of flagging the barest presence in blood of a specific virus or antibody, or protein marker for a specific cancer; or sniffing out airborne chemical warfare agents while they are still far below toxic levels.

Crude devices a little like this already exist; years ago I helped Joe Rosen, a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Dartmouth Medical School, build one — the «nerve chip,» which was an early attempt to route around nerve damage using prosthetics.

«Initial activation of the ABI is like a newborn entering the world and hearing for the first time, which means these children will need time to learn to interpret what they are sensing through the device as «sound,»» said audiologist Laurie Eisenberg, Ph.D., a Keck School of Medicine of USC otolaryngology professor and study co-leader.

He also continues trying out new strategies through his Lighthouse Schools, a group of schools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the diSchools, a group of schools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the dischools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the dischools throughout the district.

The group recently convened for three days in Napa County, California, where they toured several tech - forward schools, discussed topics like coding classes and the bring your own device (BYOD) model, and heard from vendors like Discovery Education and Google.

Schools are providing laptops, netbooks, handheld devices like the iPod touch, smartphones and increasingly the new generation of tablet devices.

BYOD helps schools and colleges to free themselves from hefty investments in hardware devices along with other educational materials like books, paper, etc..

And we, like many if not all schools, were also constrained by budgets, so a traditional 1:1, where each student receives the same device, was also out of reach.

Using devices like tablets and mobiles in school has presented further challenges, including broadband bandwidths and Wi - Fi connectivity.

Of course, the costs of installing, updating and maintaining devices like iPads and laptops are not small, and one way schools often seek to minimise this cost is by implementing a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or BYODD (Bring Your Own Digital Device) model.

In cases like this, students and their parents purchase their own device and are responsible for bringing it to school and maintaining it.

As we leave 2013, it's safe to say that the cost of devices, especially tablets like the Nexus 7 and laptops such as the Chromebook, are making it easier for schools to provide access to digital learning opportunities for more students.

«We're getting to the point where people are beginning to depend on wireless devices, just like we depend on wired devices,» says Jim Hirsch, the associate superintendent for academic and technology services for the 33,000 - student Plano, Texas, school system, which has a reputation as one of the more technologically sophisticated districts in the country.

As I traveled throughout the United States working with schools, students and teachers frequently reported that personal learning plans had devolved into an assignment and for some, it felt like another control device to get them to achieve on high stakes tests.

Some schools approach ed - tech change by throwing devices into the classrooms and making it look like it is successful, where deep down it is not.

The proposal is to build an infrastructure for using mobile technology like laptops and handheld devices and creating «digital portfolios» that can track students» work from kindergarten through high school.

I like the quote from Kyle Ross, Scottsdale Unified School District's director of instructional technology about cheating with digital devices.

Enterprise districts (like managed school networks) share goals and learning model (curriculum, assessment, teaching practices); school model (structure, schedule, staffing); information systems, learning platform and access devices; and professional learning opportunities.

If your school is like most, you have a tangle of EdTech tools and devices that don't really want to work together.

Even with the proven success of initiatives like Bring Your Own Device, there are still schools and libraries who are reluctant to enter the tech sphere for young students due to concerns about privacy, effective use of instructional time, and concerns over appropriate content.

For college and even High School and lower, devices like Kindle should replace textbooks in the next decade.

It looks a little old - school, basically looking like a large plastic rectangle when placed over your eyes — making me wonder why they wouldn't just release a cradle style holster so any of the Note smartphones could function as this device.

The device folds up like a book and is small enough to fit in a school bag, backpack or even cargo pants pockets.

They also got their hybrid device into specific schools like the Creative Career Academy.

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Others have clearly noticed that the education market is a clear area for promoting tablet growth, like Amazon, which recently added to the existing appeal of its bargain - basement Kindle Fire pricing (a souped up version of last year's model retails for $ 159) with a new free Whispercast mobile device management platform that lets schools easily deploy updates and content to a whole fleet of Kindle hardware, with support for Kindle Fire Android software coming soon.

With more and more companies like Inkling supporting digital textbooks and platforms such as the recently profiled TurnIt allowing teachers and professors the ability to publish only the pertinent licensed material in one digital file, the devices themselves are finding their ways on to school supply lists worldwide.

«This is the most advanced and user friendly device we've ever created for educational institutions» asserts David Lubinitsky, CEO of Ectaco Inc., «Our direct experience with so many schools gave us the edge to interact on a personal basis with teachers to discuss what they want to see in a device like this for the classroom.

While it could wait to launch its next - generation Kindles closer to the holiday season, having devices in stores in time for back - to - school promotions seems like the more likely scenario, particularly with sales of Kindle devices reportedly ebbing and rumors of Apple launching the iPhone 5 early this fall along with a new iPod Touch and possibly even its own 7 - inch iPad.

At a day and age when touchscreen smartphones such as the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge rule the roost, it's interesting how an old - school device with a physical keyboard like the BlackBerry Torch still has a following.

The reason for this and by not mentioning specificly accessible for blind is because, in order for a device like that to be allowed in public schools it must be Section 508 compliant.

«There is a sense that a brief plateau has been reached as they await more comprehensive device adoption; school librarians are not seeing the overwhelming demand from students that public libraries have been seeing, nor do they have the budget to invest as heavily as they might like in new technologies,» the report explains.

While the school of non-reflective eReading device lovers like myself can continue to proclaim love of the devices, the camp who prefer a legion of hybrid devices have their reasons to celebrate technological advances by leaps and bounds.

Ropey animation saw the player sprites flicker like an old - school LCD handheld device and the hideous menu screen music made your ears want to vomit.

This year's Student Competition includes entries like Roadeo, from a team at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, a two player racing game where the car races in competition (or cooperation) with the road itself, and Fingle, an iPad game in which you «playfully encounter the touch of another's fingers» and experience «the thrills of touching each other on a multi-touch device», from a student team at the Utrecht School of the Arts.

Obviously a massive resource of everything games development / programming related over the last 20 years, very cheap to access (even if that happens to be at a public facility like a school or library) and available everywhere with modern mobile devices.

From our all - in - one devices like our smart phones that act as phones, MP3 players, alarm clocks, GPS devices, and so on to our digitalization of materials from photos to novels and school text books, we are able to reduce how much oil we use in the production and shipping of products.

Many of the older online traffic schools are getting outdated and have issues with things like device compatibility, load times, identity authentication systems, etc..

Just like any other high quality drivers ed course you can take online, Improv Traffic School offers the ability to take the course from any device, they have good response times for customer support, they have existed for a very long time (at least 15 years), and they receive excellent feedback from students.

That means, if you plan on using an Apple device like an iPhone or iPad, you should probably pass on this traffic school.

And while modern Apple products have never been known for being repair - friendly — Apple likes to glue and lock - down as many pieces as possible, in part to get its devices so sturdy and thin — it stands out more on this model because the company specifically wants it to end up in schools.