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We have some tech staff on hand all summer and we hire some summer help (generally former students at home from college for summer) and we go through the following processes.
We create our golden image for staff and student machines and use Deploy…
We don't condition all of them. We identify those that need conditioning (have no charge at all, not even a flashing light) and put them in our battery conditioning station. If any battery is less than 100% it goes into the battery charging stations…
We implemented a Meru wireless network (802.11 a/b/g/n) in the fall of 2008 at our 4 middle schools to support a 1:1 of 2,100+ laptops (500-700 per school). There is no single correct answer to this question, as others have mentioned, but with the l…
We are fully charging all of our 2,100+ batteries and then removing them from the laptop (storing them in the carrying case) over the summer and they will be inserted again when the laptops are distributed.
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- At 10:34am on July 2, 2008,
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Trevor,
At the risk of being off on a tangent, I want to take up broader discussion which you may choose to ignore.
I like all of the ideas you present, but not for the purpose of maintaining student focus. In my mind, education and education resea…
Thanks Richard. Yes, we too, have had numerous conversations comparing computer related distractions to the doodling and staring out of the window that we digital immigrants used to fill our school days with. What we are seeing with the tablets seem…
Trevor,
We are in the 2nd year of our 1:1 pilot. Last year, 8th grade staff at 2 middle schools were given laptops and PD on 1:1. They developed lessons and learned about student centered pedagogy. Initially the pilot was going to provide laptop car…
If your teachers are already doing all of the things you mention in your question, then it seems to me that that the issue may not be so much one of needing to improve practice, but one of changing teacher expectations.
What do the teachers mean by…
Sounds interesting Mike. Can you give me a little more information about your school and program, and I will see if there are some opportunities here at DE?
We are a PK-12 Independent school located in Bergen County NJ, right outside NYC.
We have…
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