Digital Transformation
Through a digitalization of the learning experience, both teachers and students are able to improve their skills to create a more engaging and effective education process. Here are the ways that a comprehensive digital transformation approach is dramatically shifting education in today's classrooms. Support for this toolkit generously provided by SHI.
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Powering up the Chromebook Experience at Roxbury Public SchoolsNew Jersey's Roxbury Township School District has been a 1:1 school for five years. Their older chromebooks were beginning to age, so they wanted to choose more powerful future-ready devices. |
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How a Large District Scales up to One-to-OneWith 210,000 students, Florida's Hillsborough County Public Schools is the eighth-largest district in the country. Implementing one-to-one on that scale is no easy task but that hasn't stopped the district from moving in that direction. |
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Going 1:1 with Chromebooks and Interoperable Digital Content in Lee County, FloridaTo prepare for online testing and learning, the district adopted Dell Chromebooks and worked with content providers and IMS Global Learning to create a powerful, single login learning environment for 46,000 students. |
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Professional Development Wins the Day in Baldwin County, ALCoaching, teacher academies, annual conferences, online classes and other forms of professional learning are keys to the success of this district’s 1:1 Chromebook initiative. |
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Lessons Learned from a Decade of One-to-OneNext-generation Windows devices, wireless display, and Microsoft apps are some of the new tools that are helping New Jersey’s River Dell Regional School District get better at what they were already excelling at: empowering and inspiring learners. |
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Personalized Blended Learning Plays a Starring Role at Pasadena ISDFrom small pilots to a complete 1:1 implementation, in grades 7-12, involving Windows devices and a dramatically transformed curriculum, this Texas district is seeing great results. |
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Going Big (Texas Style) with One-to-One LaptopsHouston ISD is about to enter the third phase of its phenomenally successful 1:1 PowerUp initiative, which allows teachers in all 282 district schools to create a rich learning environment filled with project-based learning, 21st-century skills development, and coursework aligned to individual aptitudes and interests. |
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Small Pilots Lead to a Successful 1:1 Program in Hillsborough, NJFour years ago, when the Hillsborough Township Public Schools started discussing 1:1, they were determined to take a careful and thorough approach to hardware planning. Their decision to adopt Chromebooks and Android tablets grew out of three years of pilots involving a variety of devices. |
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1Two1 in Richland County School District TwoThoughtful planning and organization, a focus on equity, and choosing the right device were keys to a successful 1:1 for this South Carolina district. |
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The Proof is in the Concept at Orange County Public SchoolsFlorida’s Orange County Public Schools (OCPS) is the 10th largest school district in the country. So before instituting a sweeping 1:1 initiative across the district, OCPS conducted a Proof of Concept to test the waters. |
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PBL World 2020: How a Virtual Conference Made a Real ImpactKeeping people engaged via Zoom over the course of three days is no easy task, but PBL World yielded a fruitful virtual experience. Here are my takeaways… |
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Remote Learning with Chromebooks: Usage StudyIn homes across the country, families are finding that the latest generation Chromebooks powered by Intel® not only keep up with their new technology-based demands, but often exceed their expectations for an affordable, portable computing device. |
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Remote Learning with Windows PCs: Usage StudyThe transition to remote learning during 2020 has created a need for devices that can withstand both the demands of a traditional classroom in addition to new, remote-based tasks. |
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The Mother Load: Learning, Teaching, and ParentingI put on my "ed tech instructional designer" hat and began teaching my kids from home the only way I knew how: a way I had unknowingly been preparing for for a decade. |
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Diary of a Math Teacher: Quarantined, Part IIIt's undeniable that some things are truly flourishing in this new environment. Others are not. It's basically daisy-petal-picking at this point. Here are my takeaways… |
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New State of EdTech Leadership 2020 Survey ReportThe annual CoSN EdTech Leadership Survey has just been released: providing critical information on the state of K-12 technology, infrastructure, and leadership. |
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Silver Linings and Solutions During COVID-19In Part One of this series, we looked at the many challenges facing educators as they rush to rethink their curriculum to fit into a remote learning environment. Now we look at the “bright side” of this sudden transition to making elearning the new normal. |
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Welcome to the New Normal. Population: All of Us!As a response to the circumstances of the times, Intel is publishing two new free resources on remote learning: one for educators and one for parents. |
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Diary of a Math Teacher: QuarantinedI thought I would either love online teaching or hate it. But I don’t. I only have today, and how I feel about teaching during these conditions. |
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Educator Challenges and Solutions During COVID-19While there are a wide-range of factors contributing to general educator frustration during the pandemic, these common challenges can be categorized into four distinct buckets. |
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