With more than 1,700 students scheduled to get at least part-time access to iPads when school starts Sept. 4, Farmington administrators are putting the finishing touches on the policy that will regulate how students will be expected to use and care for their new tablet computers.
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8/21/2012
Children going door to door for fundraising programs - and parents having to respond to those hopeful young faces - may soon be off the hook thanks to a new app that converts grocery receipts into fundraising dollars.
8/16/2012
No longer are tech devices forbidden in Northwest Indiana schools as many were a few short years ago.
8/14/2012
In a Danbury elementary school this year, Deputy Superintendent of Schools William Glass was surprised after giving a short presentation when he turned to collect his iPhone on his way out the door.
8/14/2012
Students at Thibodaux High and South Lafourche will be allowed to use cellphones at school again this year, but other schools will remain cellphone-free, school officials said.
8/13/2012
Never have so many eyes been on Havana High School, and Superintendent Patrick M. Twomey knows the pressure is on as the school embraces a new classroom model that threatens all that educators have taken as gospel for decades about how to teach.
8/13/2012
extbooks won't be the only items students in the Iberville Parish School District will be receiving during the first few weeks of school this year.
8/12/2012
In Kara Kujawa's seventh-grade science class at Sunset Hills Elementary School in Surprise, her students are used to hearing, "Get out your devices."
8/9/2012
Brentwood students from kindergarten through middle school will get to explore the educational potential of iPads and the unlimited apps this academic year.
8/9/2012
Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, school officials and parents feared the worst if smartphones and digital tablets fell into the hands of children at school.
8/9/2012
TabPilot Learning Systems announced support for Android 4.1, Jelly Bean, Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet and other third-party tablets.
8/8/2012
If you have a child who gets bored in class, Travis Allen could serve as an inspiration.
8/6/2012
Paragon Software Group and Oxford University Press bring the innovative Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8th edition mobile application, to BlackBerry smartphone.
8/2/2012
CurriculumLoft introduces its iPad app for syncing digital curriculum content to student devices, which has been approved for download on the iTunes market and will be available for the upcoming school year.
7/31/2012
Ericom Software announced that Hanover School District in Pennsylvania has chosen Ericom AccessNow to provide high school students with browser-based access to hosted Windows applications and desktops from Chromebooks, laptops and tablets.
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