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Category Archives: GenYES
Tech support for students, by students - easier and better than ever!
Well, it’s been a quiet summer here on the Generation YES blog, but I can assure you, that’s because there’s been big things happening under the surface! First and foremost - the GenYES tools and curriculum have undergone a MAJOR … Continue reading
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ISTE 2013 Roundup - Student Leadership, Hard Fun, and More!
We are looking forward to another fantastic ISTE - the grandmother of all education technology conferences. This year ISTE will be in San Antonio, Texas June 23-26th, 2013. Generation YES will be there in force (meaning kids!) GenYES students from … Continue reading
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Tagged conference, educational technology, GenYES, ISTE, ISTE13, technology literacy, tinkering
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Student tech support for high access environments
Tom Vander Ark writes this week in his Ed Week column, Vander Ark On Innovation, about Supporting High Access Environments. Here’s is a summary of advice to district CTOs from the experts: Publish a short list of devices the district … Continue reading
Student Techs Have Their Heads in the Cloud
From THE Journal: There is a positive environmental impact in bypassing printed materials, but the time savings and increased communication are what really makes the cloud indispensable for educators as well as students, according to Debbie Kovesdy, a media specialist and GenYES … Continue reading
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Helping Others to Help Oneself
This month’s THE Journal has a great story (Helping Others to Help Oneself) on students who provide tech support for their schools. Shadow Mountain High School’s GenYES program is prominently profiled - congrats to the students and teacher Debbie Kovesdy for … Continue reading
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GenYES Student Volunteers at NCCE 2012
GenYES Student Volunteers at NCCE 2012 Local GenYES students came to NCCE 2012 in Seattle, Washington, and showed attendees how they support teachers at their schools with technology integration projects. Students helped with tech support, took video, did speaker and session support, … Continue reading
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“It’s about student engagement and student empowerment”
Mount Airy News - Empowering students through GenYES After some of the members of the Surry County Schools Board of Education visited a technology conference, they brought back an idea the school system will begin implementing in the fall. Middle … Continue reading
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Tagged GenYES, Mount Airy, student technology leaders, Surry County
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When students are in charge of maintaining the computers in schools
A nice internationally flavored post came our way recently. Michael Trucano writes in Edutech: A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education on When students are in charge of maintaining the computers in schools Recounting the ways that schools try … Continue reading
In Lahore, the Students Run the PD
In Lahore, the Students Run the PD Lahore American School (LAS), Pakistan has recently started turning things around a little bit. It all started with the realization that our students are really smart, and that they are especially smart when … Continue reading
Students co-author the learning experience
It’s so great to have a string of stories about the positive impact of student technology teams in schools. Last Wednesday’s story was from New York, today’s is all the way across the country in Washington in The Olympian, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Capital High School, education, Olympia, Olympian, positive, student, support, teachers, technology, Washington
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