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Category: 1:1
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I am working on my last minute addition to the #fallcue presentation lineup for Saturday entitled “Going 1:1 with Chromebooks” and I’m having a hard time finding enough material to cover the 50 minutes. Chromebooks are just too easy. It goes something like this Step 1. Go Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Step 2. Get good…
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This past weekend, Mike Vollmert, my co-host on rebootED podcast, and I helped a one school district jump start their journey into the 21st Century. People that follow my smallschoolbigtech.com podcast know I’ve got a soft spot for small schools. I’ve spent the majority of my edtech career helping small schools go big with technology but…
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An old acronym from my Army days. I think it’s apropos for the general state of technology support in California Public Schools. The above is the work safe definition, by the way. Checkout wikipedia for the grown up version. I’ve been thinking a lot about tech support lately. The boots on the ground, in your face…
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Eleven years ago, school networking was all about putting hardwired data drops into classrooms. That was then, this is now. Hardwired cabling is still important, but today, a school without wireless (or WiFi) is seriously living in the dark ages. The rapid explosion of mobile internet devices has pushed wifi to center stage of the education conversation.…
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Recently I had the pleasure of listening to a 3rd grade teacher who implemented 1:1 in November talk about how her class and her student’s have been transformed by student access to technology and the Internet in just a few months time. Awesome. http://rebootedpodcast.com/2014/04/06/episode-40-11-is-awesome/
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What does a kid need to learn these days? If you believe as I do that access to the Internet is a fundamental requirement for learning and living in the 21st Century, then the next question to ask is what is the best device to achieve that? It’s a question I hear asked often. Everyone…
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So iOS 7 happened. Two months into the start of a new school year. Again. And right after we handed out iPads to teachers and students. All that UI training, gone. Poof. The number one question I get now; “Where did the airplay icon go?” Seriously. Maybe it’s a good thing people can’t find it,…
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I don’t know how else to say it. Mobile device carts pretty much suck as a way to increase student access to technology. Particularly when carts are shared between classrooms. Take a school with just one mobile device cart to share between all the 3rd-5th grade classrooms. The logistics of dividing up the days and…
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