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Innovative Students Showcased At Dell Social Innovation Challenge

Posted 8 days ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Seeing the creativity unleashed by students from around the world at the 2013 Dell Social Innovation Challenge this week was certainly a high moment. The brilliance of each of the students and the socially good projects they created were showcased and the winning projects were announced. Needless to say each of the finalists plus others who submitted their ideas to the Challenge were incredible but only one could be the grand prize winner. Dell named Solar Conduction Dryer the grand prize winner...
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Making Technology More Accessible… Introducing Dell Latitude 3330

Posted 27 days ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Dell was founded on a simple principle – the idea that more businesses, healthcare providers, schools and individuals should have the keys to unlock their potential through greater access to technology. Every day we get to see how this becomes a reality in schools around the world – from a young child getting their hands on a tablet for the first time to working with an administrator in the US to help them properly prepare for Common Core State Standards Initiative within their school...
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Guest Post: Students as influencers in education

Posted 1 month ago

by Sarah Richardson Luden
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Named one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20 young leaders and a global One Young World Ambassador, Jaxson studies global development at Huron University College in London, Ontario. Jaxson co-founded and is the Executive Director of the Student Voice Initiative, a national movement to give students a voice in their education. How did I get involved in student voice? I started off in something familiar to anyone who has been through school – student council. Yet, I also wanted to do more. And...
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Guest Post: A More Fulfilling Education Experience

Posted 1 month ago

by Sarah Richardson Luden
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The following blog is a guest post from Jacob Frackson, Editor for Student Voice , Canadian Student; Education Blogger based in Victoria, BC. You can follow him on Twitter @JFrackson and reach his blog here: jakefrackson.wordpress.com . One day, it stopped being enough. I had sat through one too many dull classes, one too many passive discussions, one too many uninspiring days of school, and now I needed more. There had always been opportunities to go beyond school, but they were always in...
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Student Voice LIVE! - April 13

Posted 1 month ago

by Sarah Richardson Luden
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This Saturday, April 13, we’re bringing the voice of education back to the student and we’re doing it in a big way. Dell is partnering with Student Voice , a grassroots support network that serves to empower students in their efforts to be heard in the education conversation, to bring you Student Voice Live! We’ll bring together all stakeholders in the learning community to hear young leaders’ ideas to innovate education and develop strategies to achieve them. The size...
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Presenting Student Voice Live!: A Message From Our Co-Hosts

Posted 1 month ago

by Sarah Richardson Luden
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On Saturday, April 13, 2013 Dell is proud to present Student Voice Live! Student Voice Live! will bring students, parents, school and community leaders plus more from around the world together to discuss issues of importance to students and action plans on how to address them. Education & Entrepreneurship and Personalized Learning are just two of the many topics that will be discussed. See a special message below from the Student Voice Live! co-hosts.
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Fargo Students Gain 21st Century Skills with Dell and Windows 8

Posted 2 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Fargo Public Schools is on a mission to deploy 21 st Century tools in the classroom with its “Glass Paper Project.” Having piloted iPads in the past, Fargo found that it needed a tablet that would not just enable its students to consume content, but also create content if it was going to achieve the goals of Glass Paper. Replacing a pencil and notebook with a tablet is no easy task, but Dell and Windows 8 proved to be the right device to support learning inside and outside of the classroom...
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Southern Illinois University Partners with Dell to Launch New "Mobile Dawg" Tablet Initiative

Posted 2 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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You do the math - - according to The College Board, students will spend an average of $1,200 on printed textbooks each year while a tablet is nearly half that price. Recognizing the cost savings of e-textbooks, Southern Illinois University created the “Mobile Dawg” tablet initiative to equip each new incoming freshman with a Dell Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet beginning next fall. This semester, several hundred students are using the tablets through a pilot program. “This tablet...
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Dell’s Turnkey Tablets a Fit for Westwood Independent School District

Posted 2 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Next year’s back to school shopping may be a little different for the students at Westwood ISD . One of the latest schools to choose Dell Windows 8 devices for its 1:1 tablet initiative, students will find themselves downloading education apps and digital books rather than buying pencils and notepads. Dell Latitude 10 and XPS 12 will be in the hands of every student and teacher to enhance classroom learning and student assessment capabilities. “The Dell Latitude 10 and XPS 12 proved...
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Dell Latitude 10 is a Snap to Deploy in Spartanburg School District 3

Posted 2 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Spartanburg School District 3 is thinking big when it comes to technology in the classroom. On August 16, 2012, Spartanburg 3 passed a 1:1 mobile learning initiative to put a device in the hands of their students and teachers to use in the classroom. Having already invested in Windows 7 desktops and laptops, it was important to select a solution that snapped into the existing IT ecosystem. Spartanburg 3 evaluated devices from Apple, Google and Samsung, but none were compatible with their legacy software...
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Welcome to Austin ... See you at SXSW EDU this week!

Posted 2 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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We’re excited to welcome some of the most innovative educators, students, community leaders and partners to our hometown of Austin this week for SXSW EDU . At SXSW EDU you will see loads of our latest Dell tools and solutions plus our global Education team will be attending. We’re excited to see you, learn from and welcome you to our hometown. Follow us on Twitter @DellEDU and check out what some of our team members have to say during one of these sessions. SXSWedu > Panel: “Nation...
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Action After Tragedy: Examining School Security

Posted 3 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Reeling from the shattering events in Newtown, CT, communities nationwide are reevaluating safety protocols, sharing best practices and researching options for the future. On a Friday morning, one of the last of 2012, an elementary school in Connecticut began another typical day. As students settled in, filing one after the other toward art class or music or gym or unpacking pencils or markers to begin the day’s lessons, a horror would quickly unfold that would change the school, the small...
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Join Dell at BETT and FETC to learn about our latest innovations in education

Posted 3 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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This week is an exciting one for Dell in Education with two events that span the globe – BETT Education Show in London and FETC in Florida. You can find Dell at BETT at stand B260 and Booth 801 at FETC where Dell will showcase its end-to-end technology solutions for education and feature the recently announced Latitude 10 essentials configuration , a tablet ideal for schools. Building on Dell’s existing solutions and services for learning , the Latitude 10 essentials configuration delivers...
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BOLDLY GO WHERE NO MOM HAS GONE: What Kids and Teens Can Teach Parents About Technology

Posted 3 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Parents can learn a lot about this brave new world from the digital experts lounging on the couch in the living room. Shoelace tying? Check. Table manners? Check. Road safety? Check. ABCs? Basic math? “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”? Check, check and check. Most parents are confident teachers when it comes to the basics, but in a quickly evolving, ever-changing digital world, the basics aren’t what they used to be. If you consider that your average American teenager...
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BRING IT ON: Bring Your Own Device Programs in Schools

Posted 3 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Despite the challenges, of which there are many, schools across the country are beginning to see the advantages of BYOD programs. BYOD or Bring Your Own Device (also sometimes called BYOT with T standing for Technology) is gaining in popularity in schools districts across the country. For many strapped with cash but wanting to utilize the technologies and apps available to assist and enhance education, allowing kids to bring the devices they already own is an attractive solution. But like so many...
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Does Privacy Matter? Social Sharing and the 21st Century Teen

Posted 5 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Digital teens are redefining long-held ideas of privacy and have unique views on what should be shared openly and what shouldn’t. What’s a modern mom to do? Despite what my kids might believe, I was once a teenager too: I have the laugh lines and scars, both visible and invisible, to prove it. Somewhere stuffed in a box is a journal or two detailing the (admittedly, mostly benign) adventures of my youth, along with a few photos of some questionable fashion choices. I’m lucky...
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A Wired Village: Disaster Relief and Assistance for Parents

Posted 5 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Parents affected by Hurricane Sandy rely on web-based support to bring “normal” back to their storm-ravaged families. The images of destruction left in Hurricane Sandy’s wake fill our television and computer screens. We see the mountains of prized possessions now piled in a heap outside of flooded homes and the jaw-dropping swathes of land washed, blown or burned away. For parents caught in Sandy’s path, these images reveal little of what life is really like. Their minds...
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TEAMING UP: The Benefits of Parent Volunteer and School Administration Partnerships

Posted 5 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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As school budgets decline and funding needs increase, collaboration between parent volunteers, principals and superintendents can make a crucial difference. Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. -- Henry Ford Once a month, first thing in the morning, a group of parents and school administrators gather in a room off the high school’s library. As they settle into their seats, arranging coffee cups and notebooks, they catch...
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EDUCAUSE Highlights & Looking Forward

Posted 6 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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We had great conversations with university leaders at the EDUCAUSE conference this month. Our whole team is continually encouraged by the innovation happening in higher education around the world. We're sharing below a few of these innovative ideas and priorities that people were talking about at the conference and what we heard as priorities for the EDUCAUSE community in 2013. Please feel free to share the image below with your friends and colleagues too. To add this infographic to your...
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EDUCAUSE: What we're hearing from university leaders

Posted 6 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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We're at EDUCAUSE , the largest U.S. higher education tech show, this week in Denver. Topics here and on online are spanning from data management and predictive analytics to making learning more accessible via virtualization. Check out and feel free to share (code at end of post) the graphic below that shows even more of these topics and conversations. Please feel free to share the graphic. Simply copy and paste the code below: <p>EDUCAUSE Day 1 Review - An infographic by the...
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Super Who?: Understanding the Superintendent Role and its Contemporary Challenges

Posted 6 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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From conflict resolution to shrinking budgets, modern school superintendents have an added responsibility: integrating technology or risk falling behind. When Dr. Gregory Maass left his Superintendent position in Green Bay, Wisconsin for one in a small Massachusetts town, he might have sighed a breath of relief. He moved from a population of 100,000 and 36 schools to a coastal village of less than 20,000 people and 6 schools. While he once managed a $270 million budget, he would now oversee one...
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We’ll see you at EDUCAUSE 2012!

Posted 6 months ago

by Kari Sherrodd
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Join us at the Dell Booth #1203 . Follow us on Twitter at @DellEDU and via #DellEDU12 & #EDU12 . We’re in Denver, Colorado this week for the annual EDUCAUSE conference and the whole team is looking forward to the conversations ahead. We’re looking forward to sharing more about our next generation learning solutions in higher education including virtual labs, education data management, assistive technology services, high performance computing and more. We’ll also be showing...
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MORE COOL TOOLS: Sites, Apps and More For Learning and Living

Posted 6 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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A host of online solutions can help to bring balance to modern family life – and also offer unexpected opportunities for learning, living, and doing good. “There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” ― E.B. White We understand the feeling. Days get lost in best intentions gone awry: the car gets a flat on the way to the grocery store, the child makes it home but his back pack does not. We make plans to see...
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Defeat the “sitting disease”! Technology can fuel not only our minds, but our bodies as well.

Posted 6 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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Online shopping. Web-based meetings. Virtual libraries. Telecommuting. What once required a trip by foot or by car or train or subway can now be accomplished with the click of button. Technology has increased the productivity of our lives, but what has it meant for our bodies? Our broadband lives can make us, well, broader, and according to the Mayo Clinic and others, we’re all vulnerable to the dreaded “ sitting disease .” But for those of us attached to our phones and busy...
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Game On: Turning the Gamer into the Game Developer

Posted 7 months ago

by Guest Blogger—Darcy Mayers
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With the right tools and inspiration, your game-obsessed kid can take playtime to an entirely new level -- by building games of their own. Wondering how you might “power up” the gamer in your house? Concerned that hours of play might result in nothing more than a high score? Your fears might be unnecessary. Educators and thought leaders see major skill-building advantages in game playing, including problem solving, risk and reward scenarios, and resiliency. Virtual worlds can even...

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