Edsource: Fresno Unified Elementary Students Must Return Laptops As District Shifts Focus To In-Class Use

No longer will every student in the Fresno Unified School District have a laptop for use at home. For almost six years, the school district provided every student with a device, part of a nationwide ...
Yahoo

Funding Issues Make Student Devices Hard to Replace, DPI Says

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article was originally published in EdNC. A new Department of Public Instruction (DPI) report says that 100% of traditional ...
Education Week

Who Pays for Repairs to Students’ School-Issued Devices?

Nearly everything a student in most schools needs to do for their classes is now on a school-issued laptop or tablet, making these devices essential for accessing learning materials. But maintaining ...
Security Boulevard

4 Tools That Help Students Focus

Educators recognize the dual reality of educational technology (EdTech): its potential to sharpen student focus and detract ...
Government Technology

Hiring Student Repairers Helps Maintain 1:1 Device Programs

Oakland Unified School District s tech repair intern Danna Avila, 17, repairs Chromebooks at OUSD's warehouse in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. (TNS) — During his junior year at Altoona ...
The Baltimore Sun

What content can Carroll Schools students access on school devices? Officials explain.

How much time should students spend on school devices? What does the school system block access to, and how is content filtered? The Carroll County Board of Education discussed these questions, and ...
Odessa American

Midland ISD updates policy on student use of personal communication devices

MIDLAND As part of its commitment to a focused, distraction-free learning environment, Midland ISD has updated its policy regarding student use of personal communication and electronic devices during ...
FOX 26 Houston on MSN

Houston-area districts confirm A.I. monitoring tools on student devices as privacy questions grow

Houston-area school districts confirmed to FOX26 they use software to monitor activity on school-issued devices. Here’s what ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

APS electronic device restrictions makes for a better learning environment

In an effort to maintain a focused and safe educational environment, Atlanta Public Schools is reinforcing its previously approved Personal Electronic Device policy for all students across the ...
WUNC

Most NC school districts can't afford to update student devices

Students work on a laptop in a classroom. A new statewide report shows that the vast majority of school districts don’t have sufficient funding to update student laptops. Before the pandemic, only 16 ...
EdTech

Combine Collaborative and Cooperative Learning To Improve Student Outcomes

K-12 educators sometimes use the terms “collaborative learning” and “cooperative learning” interchangeably when discussing students working together in the classroom. But the two terms carry distinct ...