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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Educator Panel: What Tech Works in the ClassroomThe last PDXedTech meetup was an educator panel on what technology works best in the classroom. Find out wha's working in classrooms and why! |
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The Steelcase Active Learning Center GrantSteelcase Education is partnering with educators to rethink classrooms, libraries and in-between spaces to incorporate flexible furniture to support active learning. |
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Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund's Education Technology Use in Schools reportGallup and NewSchools Venture Fund conducted a national survey about the use of educational technology in schools. Here are their findings. |
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The Right Windows Device for K-12 EducationThe education team at Intel® hired Clarity Innovations to research and develop this report to examine how processor performance affects teaching and learning. Be sure to download this free whitepaper. |
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Google Slides For MathWhile PowerPoint is mostly a static tool for delivering a lesson, Google Slides can be used collaboratively for many purposes in the math classroom. |
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My Students Video Their Homework, and Everything Is BetterPurposeful homework indeed has a purpose, yet I need to have boundaries on my own time. Enter the concept of video homework. |
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Creating Launch PointsSchools can do more than simply prepare students for academic success. Let's help students find their launch points—those points that set the stage for a person’s life. |
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The 2019 Horizon Report is HereThe 2019 Horizon Report is here, profiling key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in educational technology. |
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Enhancing Sharing in Simple and Meaningful New WaysEd-tech company Clarity Innovations worked with the Math Learning Center to create a dynamic new way to share math learning with teachers and peers. |
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Reflections on Tech Use with Young ChildrenIf technology isn't "good enough" for the children of the Silicon Valley innovators who created it, how can we defend its use in schools, especially with young children? |
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