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Think Outside the Box for Las Vegas Schools

The Getting Smart team led a school design workshop for The Executive Leadership Academy, hosted by The Public Education Foun...

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Making Tech Work for Kids and Teachers

Advances in technology in the classroom often focus on how it is improving teaching and not learning. Why don't we invite stu...

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Profession(al) Development

The teaching profession as we know it is changing. It is time to redefine the way we think about developing the profession it...

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Three Ring: Bringing Qualitative Work into Focus

Rescue forgotten student work from the bottom of backpacks or hidden in endless stacks of binders—everything is organized s...

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Four Ways to Get Your Students Involved in the Classroom

In a day and age when the American education system is under fire, teachers need to think outside of the box in order to enga...

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Stay the Course with the 1:1 Initiative

If people were drowning, we would immediately start a 1:1 lifejacket initiative. We wouldn't abandon it if the people were still flopping around in the water like wounded fish after they put on their lifejackets. Struggling swimmers flop around because they were not prepared by their leaders and mentors. We especially ...

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5 Ideas for the One iPad Classroom

I am excited to be part of a plan to roll out iPads to all teachers in my school this spring. All teachers will be getting an iPad, an Apple TV for projection and a stand to utilize the camera as a document camera. The goal of this One iPad Classroom initiative is to allow wireless mirroring of an iPad through the proj...

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Federal Way Schools Pilots LearnPad Tablets

Federal Way Public Schools Selects LearnPad Tablet Solution from Educational Resources

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Hall Davidson at TASA 2013: Tablet Device as Backpack

I had never heard Hall Davidson speak until I saw him at the Midwinter meeting of the Texas Association of Schools Administrators. If you have not heard his presentation, you are in for a treat: enthusiasm, energy, state-of-the-art information. As we say around here in Texas, it was the whole enchilada.

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25 Tablet Ideas to Enhance Learning Experiences

How cool would it have been to be able to draw, write, and learn directly onto my own computer? As the years went on, people theorized that laptops would take over the classroom, but the price of these devices was too high for a 1 to 1 ratio. It never quite caught on in lower grade schools.

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SMARTtech Top 10: Happy Thanksgiving

We hope you’re enjoying the long holiday weekend. We know you’re eager to get back to your turkey sandwich leftovers and that backyard game of tag football, which is why we’ve worked to condense the news highlights to just 10 quick items. Here’s your small talk points for early Monday morning back at the office...

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Learning Untethered: Conclusions From a 5th Grade Tablet Pilot

Learning Untethered is a “collaborative exploration” that introduced 7 inch Samsung Galaxy tablets running Android 2.2, a mobile data plan, and using Internet filtering from Kajeet into an Oregon fifth grade classroom. The report made important observations about writing and mobile device management.

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