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Jeff Hanks

"6 Reasons why you should use 6 laptops in your classroom" - 1 views

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  • Jeff Hanks on 03 Oct 13
     
    This is a persuasive essay detailing the positive effects of a controlled setting with laptop use in classes. Having a small number of laptops and placing the students in groups would allow the laptops to be used in a controlled setting with laptop time being much more valuable having to share with other students. Having one laptop per group would allow the laptop to be a tool of necessity rather than entertainment.
Chris Ruether

Education Week: Schools Are Using Social Networking to Involve Parents - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...11digitalparent_ep.h32.html

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  • This school year, the 1.1 million-student New York City system launched a new text-subscription service that notifies parents in English or Spanish of school news and a series of webinars on topics of relevance to parents. The 640,000-student Los Angeles school district hired its first-ever director of social media this past spring, whose main charge is communicating and sharing district information with parents and students via tools such as YouTube, Twitter, and Tumblr.
  • In the 182,000-student Fairfax County school system in Virginia, 84,500 people have subscribed to the district's enhanced news and information email and text service, the district's Facebook page has 26,000 "likes," and its Twitter account has 8,100 followers
  • digital technologies to improve communication between the school and parents
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  • has its teachers use Skype to run parent conferences and airs live and archived video of all parent and teacher association meetings for parents who are unable to attend. Recently, Mr. Mazza and some staff members even brought laptops into a local mosque that a number of the school's families attend, and streamed live footage there of one of the meetings
  • About 2,000 parents have already received training since the start of school this year, according to Kelly Cline, the senior manager of parent engagement for the Houston district.
  • Chris Ruether on 03 Oct 13
     
    This article talks about teaching the parents about how to use social media properly in order for them to stay up to date about many things in their children's lives. one example is using Skype to do parent teacher conferences. Also using high-quality digital content in the homes is allowing parents to once again help their students with homework.
Ashley Cleary

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-08-24-classroomlaptops24_ST_N.htm - 0 views

This article does a good job of explaining in detail how laptops are being used middle schools to help students learn and how it makes teaching easier.

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started by Ashley Cleary on 08 Oct 13 no follow-up yet
lindsey crawford

Should laptops replace textbooks - 0 views

scholarly article http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=63608e70-d780-4a3c-8247-0799539f6779%40sessionmgr12&vid=1&hid=14&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bth&AN=17193508

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