Technology

How to reach students without internet access during coronavirus? Schools get creative

Posted on Monday, April 27th, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Amadou Diallo, NBC News/The Hechinger Report
Date: 4/19/2020
Link: Complete Article

This article about students without internet access at home was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. On the Friday before spring break at Meigs Middle School in Decatur, Tennessee, special education teacher Matt Coe was busy preparing new lessons for his students now that schools were set… [Read More]

Practical physics: Turners Falls students analyze speeds on tricky village roads

Posted on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Max Marcus, Greenfield Recorder
Date: 1/21/2020
Link: Complete Article

TURNERS FALLS — The newest advisors to the Montague Selectboard may be a group of high school students. As the culminating project for the semester, the Turners Falls High School physics class studied two difficult turns on roads in Turners Falls to try to determine whether the speed limits should be changed or if special… [Read More]

Northampton students build computers in new digital literacy program

Posted on Friday, February 22nd, 2019 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Greta Jochem, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Date: 2/21/2019
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON — On Friday morning, R.K. Finn Ryan Road School third-grade students were playing Minecraft on small computers. But they weren’t using an average laptop — they were computers the students had built themselves. As part of a new technology education initiative in Northampton elementary schools, third-graders are building simple computers in small groups and… [Read More]

ISTE Expands Certification Program

Posted on Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: September 26, 2018
Link: Complete Article

Washington, D.C. — September 26, 2018 — In response to increased demand for teacher professional learning to use technology effectively in the classroom, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is doubling the capacity of its training network for the ISTE Certification for Educators. Announced earlier this year, this certification is the first-ever educator certification… [Read More]

Sixteen schools in five Western MA school districts awarded Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants

Posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: July 24, 2018

Western Massachusetts schools will receive just over $480,000 of the $3.8 million dollar Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants awarded last week by the Baker-Polito Administration. Sixteen schools within Belchertown, Gill-Montague, North Adams, Northampton and Leverett School districts were awarded between $1,641 and $120,464 towards improving their technology infrastructure. The Digital Connections Partnership Schools Grants are… [Read More]

Gateway to host educational technology conference

Posted on Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: The Gazette
Date: 9/20/2017
Link: Complete Article

HUNTINGTON — Gateway Regional will host a technology conference for staff in western Massachusetts schools Thursday, Sept. 28. Five educational technology vendors were selected to showcase products at the conference. Trinity 3 Technology is a major sponsor of this event. The company provides Chromebooks, laptops, tabets and desktop solutions to schools. LanSchool is also an… [Read More]

Greenfield mulls how to fund school technology needs

Posted on Friday, September 8th, 2017 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Shelby Ashline, The Greenfield Recorder
Date: 9/7/2017
Link: Complete Article

GREENFIELD — How Greenfield should look to fund the school district’s constantly growing technology needs provoked a robust conservation at an afternoon school subcommittee meeting this week. Quickly it was agreed that the current ways to pay for new technology, like computers and software for students and staff, was not a sustainable approach. In recent… [Read More]

Franklin County Technical School starts year with student-built computers

Posted on Friday, September 30th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Miranda Davis, The Recorder
Date: 9/29/2016
Link: Complete Article

Turners Falls, MA – Students in the Franklin County Technical School’s computer programming and web design program started the school year with 26 new computers, but the students themselves were the ones who assembled the machines. The school was able to purchase the new dual-screen computers after they were awarded a Massachusetts Skills Capital Grant… [Read More]

Educators focus on Connected Teaching and Learning at the 2016 Technology in Education Conference

Posted on Sunday, January 17th, 2016 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Martha Maloney, Collaborative for Educational Services
Date: 1/17/16

Over two hundred educators attended the Collaborative for Educational Services 2016 Technology in Education (TiE2016) Conference, held Thursday at Holyoke Community College. Keynote speaker Antero Garcia, Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University, opened the conference with a lively discussion on “Beyond “Dead Channels”: Hope, Activism, and Learning in a Participatory Age.” Garcia drew… [Read More]

Area schools turn to Google’s online software solutions

Posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 by Collaborative for Educational Services

Source: Gena Mangiaratti, Hampshire Gazette
Date: 9/16/2015
Link: Complete Article

NORTHAMPTON, MA— Standing before a roomful of 10- and 11-year-olds, technology specialist Andrea Marks pointed to what she calls the “waffle” at the corner of a large computer screen in the front of the room. The waffle — nine tiny squares that form one larger square — is the icon for Google Apps, a suite… [Read More]