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School superintendent Dan Gaetz spent last Tuesday in a whirlwind: reaching out to children in his district’s 39 schools, fielding calls from people wanting to help, wondering how soon parents on the nearby military bases in Okaloosa County, Fla., might be called to duty.
The laptops have names like Snickers, Nelly, Fraggle, Goku and Blue Sister 2. They’re encased in industrial-strength green plastic, the same kind that’s used in the manufacture of football helmets. On this fine spring afternoon, they’re sitting on a corner table in a classroom at Lowell School, an independent pre-primary and primary school in Washington […]
Sweetwater Union High School District Chooses FirstClass Unified Communications Solution to Improve Communications and Responsiveness
download. Certainly not school teachers, who can’t afford to waste precious classroom time while students stare at a half-blank computer screen, waiting for a virtual museum tour to finish loading.
With summer over and school in full swing, Kenneth Sahr is finding the faltering economy is having little impact on demand for his service.
Hard to believe it’s been more than five years now since the first NetDay literally shook the walls of thousands of schools around the country.
To a student desperate to get a good grade, the Internet is not merely a source of research information, it is, “a 1.5 billion-page searchable, cut-and-pasteable encyclopedia.”
Computer literacy has become as much a part of a child’s school curriculum as reading, writing and math
At the same time that most Florida school districts are banning cell phones on campus, Levy County’s top school officials gratefully accepted several dozen of the phones Tuesday morning for use on all 12 county campuses.
Schools across Central Jersey are striving to make technology a larger part of everyday learning, using fresh teaching approaches and cutting-edge equipment.