Bay City ISD will begin distributing Chromebook laptops the week of March 30.  We will begin with distribution to families who only need laptops, not wifi hotspots,” said Lisa Moya, BCISD Assistant Superintendent. “We are still awaiting delivery of the hotspots.”  Moya said Chromebook laptops should be picked up at the campus where the student is ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas - Round Rock ISD announced all students will be able to keep their district-issued Chromebook over the summer. Students who participate in the district-provided summer learning programs such as high school summer learning, Middle School Propel and Elementary Launch will need to bring their Chromebooks with them each day. Students not participating in Round Rock ISD summer ...

Central ISD teachers had a dream two years ago that, thanks to a Kurth Foundation grant, begins coming true today. Central High School as of today is, in essence, a paperless campus, since the purchase of 515 Chromebook laptop computers will be issued to every student. Technology Instructional Coordinator Kyle Ivey said the new platform opens doors of possibilities to Central ...

Earlier today, I had the opportunity to see what Temple ISD was doing in regards to the 9th Grade Chromebook initiative, a 1 to 1 program. Aside from a snazzy slideshow (nice job!), they had some core beliefs that jumped out at me:

Before each of Stephanie Jenkins’ fifth-graders at Stephen F. Austin Elementary had Chromebook laptops available for every lesson this year, the math and social studies teacher had a hard time picturing what lessons would look like with the new technology. Nine weeks into Brazosport ISD’s 1:1 initiative to put technology in the hands of every student at Jane ...

When Tracy Sanders refused to sign an agreement so that her son, 10th-grader Kaden Sanders, could be assigned a Chromebook — a vital tool these days as school districts make the move to digital learning — it posed a problem for City View ISD. What if a parent does not want to take responsibility for the device?

A new program aims to pair a Chromebook computer or touchscreen device to every Carthage ISD student and teacher. School board members kicked off the districtwide initiative at their Monday meeting, approving the purchase Chromebooks from CDWG for $206,130.

"No matter how visionary or how brilliant," shares Simon Sinek in his book, Start with Why, "a great idea or a great product isn't worth much if no one buys it." Assuming Sinek is right, it probably shouldn't come as a surprise to instructional technologists that this is why they are often ignored. The desire of instructional technologists are to ...

During the Superintendent Report at the New Caney Independent School District board meeting Monday, Oct. 19, updates were relayed concerning the district’s energy conservation efforts, classroom learning initiatives and technology integration. Paul Batchelder, Energy Education Specialist for New Caney ISD, gave updates on the Energy Management Program.

Attendance at parent information meetings on Cleburne ISD’s upcoming deployment of Chromebooks to secondary students is over the 1,000 mark. An information session for parents begins at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Cleburne High School in the Commons area. This is the second event for parents following Monday night’s presentation.

The Wichita Falls ISD is expanding its digital footprint - again. While the 2016-17 school year meant big things in the digital world for sixth-graders - all the district’s sixth-graders received their own take-home Chromebooks - when 2017-18 rolls around, it will be the fourth-graders’ turn. “This year, with federal funds, (the goal) is to get ...

The Abilene Independent School District needs to collect the 5,200 Chromebooks it distributed earlier in the year, Superintendent David Young said Wednesday.  Families who borrowed the laptop computers need to return them to either Abilene High or Cooper High from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. between May 18-22.  Returns will be made in a "drive-thru ...

The Pine Tree ISD board of trustees adopted a 2020-21 budget with a partial deficit Monday, but officials say they expect the year to actually end with a surplus.

The Texas Education Agency recently awarded the Lake Travis school district with a grant that will help bridge the digital divide for students at Lake Travis Elementary School. Specifically, the grant will fund 234 Chromebooks plus 21 ‘Chromebook Backpacks’ consisting of a Chromebook laptop and wireless access hotspot for school and home use by students in third through fifth grades ...

Beginning this school year, all Rice High School students will have a Chromebook to assist them with learning in the classroom and at home. In addition, teachers have received trainings to implement Google classroom in the educational setting. “Rice High School is committed to preparing students to be college and career ready. This is why we are launching a ...

The Cleburne ISD board of trustees on Monday voted to purchase 6,000 new Chromebooks for a total cost of $1,295,460.  CISD Technology Executive Director Mike Wallace said the new Chromebooks will replace those issued during the COVID-19 emergency student Chromebook deployment, as well as the first Chromebooks deployed to students and teachers in the 2016-17 school year, which was made possible ...

A long term goal for the district is to be able to provide a Chromebook for every single student.  There is no doubt that we are in a highly technology-driven era.  With this in mind, Carthage ISD is making moves to ensure students have the most up-to-date technology at their fingertips.   A long term goal for ...

Every student in the Judson Independent School District will start the school year with a Chromebook as part of the district’s online learning program. The board unanimously voted July 7 to allow $3.7 million to be taken from the district’s cash reserves in order to fund the Chromebook purchases.  The district was thrown into remote learning mode ...

Key #2 - Plan ahead for Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) and 1 to 1 Initiatives (e.g. iPad/Chromebook). Given the plethora of mobile devices available to students, staff and community, both in-house provided as well as those they are bringing in, there are a variety of issues. I've explored Bring Your Own Technology in a variety ...

New Caney Independent School District rolled out the first installment of some 10,772 Chromebook devices Tuesday at Porter High School. The technology is part of the districts’ “1:1 Initiative” which is meant to place a computer in the hands of every student in the district.

The first step for Temple Independent School District was putting technology in the hands of the students. This year each freshman at Temple High School received a personal Google Chromebook. The next step is helping students stay connected, via Internet access, when they are way from school. “Last year, we surveyed our incoming freshmen and found that about a ...

Central ISD is stepping into the digital age as the first school in the area where every high school student has a Chromebook computer. The days of pencil and paper are gone at Central High School.

The New Caney Independent School District Technology and Digital Learning Department has implemented a district web filter for district-issued student Chromebook online use which has been in place for over one month. According to Dustin Hardin, director of technology at New Caney ISD, the filter is required by law and is “the district’s best effort to ...

 Fourteen-year-old Averie Moes waited anxiously in line Wednesday afternoon to register at Morris Middle School. Even though she is a good student, the excitement wasn’t so much for starting the eighth grade, but for receiving a Chromebook for the entire school year. “At my old school we didn’t have this opportunity and now that ...

Incoming freshmen attending Navarro High School will now be issued a Google Chromebook for the new school year. Navarro Independent School District Board of Trustees approved the purchase during a July meeting allocating the use of $49,814 of the 2013 CO-OP to pay for 180 Chromebooks, cases and Google Chrome licenses.

Starting this fall, Godley Middle School students will be included in the same on-site one-to-one Chromebook deployment that is used at Godley High School. District officials said this will further their efforts towards meeting the goals defined in the district's Strategic Design: Digital Tools plan. The program is for Godley ISD to "empower students with the digital tools necessary ...

Navarro freshman Breanne Winn eagerly and graciously accept her school issued Google Chromebook during World Geography on Wednesday. “I’m pretty excited,” she said after getting a quick instructional lesson from Navarro ISD instructional technologist Betsy Flood. “It gets us more in touch with the world, instead of giving us textbooks that are outdated.”

Royse City Independent School District officials have known that the high school's Chrome Squad is brag-worthy. Others are beginning to join them in singing the praises of the student team that's considered to be the first tier of support for teachers and students in the school's Chromebook program. Royse City and 11 other school districts are basking in ...

When students return to their Plano ISD schools later this month, a number of them will receive new laptops as part of a district initiative to increase student access to district technology. The Plano ISD board of trustees on Tuesday approved a four-year plan to purchase a Google Chromebook for every student and teacher in the district—with extra ...

Marlin ISD’s state-appointed board of managers is starting its first full school year by putting improvement plans in place to keep the district moving toward passing state accountability ratings, which the district has failed for six years. The board, put it place in February, signed off on four improvement plans during a meeting Tuesday night, one for each ...

Temple schools are trying to find effective ways to integrate technology into the classroom now that the district’s one-to-one initiative is complete. Assistant Superintendent Bobby Ott told the board of trustees Friday that the district wants to avoid replacing older teaching methods with new technology, instead using “blended learning,” a combination of online approaches and traditional ...

The Garland ISD Board of Trustees was presented with the evaluation of the 1:1 device program of pilot middle schools during the last board of trustees meeting. The pilot program was to decide what devices would be appropriate to put in middle school classrooms, a process that began in May that involved the participation of 146 teachers and 42 students. The participating teachers ...

When an adult gets stuck with a computer question, a kid is often the first person called to help. The Nacogdoches Independent School District is using that youthful knowledge to further learning. When it comes to operating a Chromebook, 7-year-old Alexis Victorio is a pro. "I'm going to enter my password,” Alexis said. TJR Elementary provides ...

Yesterday, fourth grade Gateway students from Alton Elementary School and sixth grade student technology advisor Jesus Gatica traveled to Austin to visit the Google office. Students were greeted by South-Central Regional Manager at Google for Education Kevin Hodges and given a tour of the office. Students also heard from a software engineer about life as an engineer at Google. Brenham ...

More schools are placing technology in students hands to help them succeed. The iPads and Chromebooks help prepare students for the work force, but also force them to confront the dangers of the internet is well. Like most young people, Breshard Roberts and Vincson Haynes are always on their phones. “I have an iPhone and I have a game ...

English classes at Dumas High School use the Google Chrome app, Stackup, to track what students are doing on their school-issued Chromebook devices. “The teacher gets data on what level the students are reading at and how much time they’re spending reading,” said Instructional Technology Coordinator for Dumas ISD Rhonda Artho. Over spring break, English Teacher ...

Watson Technology Center for Math and Science first opened 63 years ago in the Garland Independent School District as Ferris Watson Elementary. In all those years, only nine principals have walked the halls. Over the last six decades, the school, now a STEM campus, has seen plenty of changes. They’re all digital, every student has a iPad, Chromebook or ...

Beginning in the 2019-20 school year, every Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD student in second through 12th grades will be issued a Chromebook, completing the final phase of the district’s technology plan. During a recent school board meeting, the Board of Trustees approved the purchase of 2,800 Chromebooks and 90 storage carts. According to a staff memo, the purchase will help the ...

Students at six high schools in the Dallas Independent School District will be receiving laptops and free Wi-Fi hotspot devices to take home for the school year. Students were excited Thursday as they were called to the library of South Oak Cliff High School to pick up their new Chromebook laptops. The campus is the first distribution site under a ...

The Nacogdoches ISD board of trustees voted unanimously Thursday to hire Arrow Educational Services to search for interim Superintendent Alton Frailey’s replacement.  Arrow Educational Services presented to the board during an agenda review meeting Monday. In the past 21 years, the company has found and placed 170 superintendents in Texas school districts. “It’s time. This ...

The Burnet school district is making access to technology a priority with the approval of a $1.4 million maintenance tax note.  On February 10, the Burnet Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees voted for the tax note, which will help fund a districtwide 1:1 technology initiative ensuring each high school student is issued a Chromebook, or similar device, starting in the 2020...

ABILENE, Texas (News Release) – Two of the issues facing school districts across the country during this coronavirus pandemic is how students in those districts can participate in online learning without either a device or internet access.  The Abilene ISD has been working since last week to solve both of those problems, and now a local internet provider ...

Bay City sent out the following update on the instruction process for students in the district.  “You all are doing a great job at home, and keep in mind that our first priority is to keep everyone safe. So please continue to practice social distancing,”said Assistant Superintendent Lisa Moya.  Moya said more than 1,600 families have ...

Right now Round Rock ISD is on schedule to finish out the school year with online learning beginning April 6. Under the program the district has laid out, they’ll be using Google Classrooms to provide video lessons recorded by teachers and email to submit their and get feedback. And for students who may not have a computer available to ...

Leander ISD will begin distributing Chromebook laptops to elementary school students over three days beginning April 7, according to a news release. The laptop computers will have content filtering software to keep students safe in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act, according to LISD.

The Fort Worth ISD Board of Education ratified the emergency purchase of thousands of Chromebook computers during an online board meeting Tuesday evening.  The Board also approved the purchase of thousands of internet hotspots.

High school students in the Ralston Public Schools will be getting Chromebook laptops in the fall, Superintendent Mark Adler said Wednesday.  The purchase will create a one-to-one computer ratio at the high school and position the district to deal with potential disruptions of school next fall, he said.

The Amarillo Independent School District Board of Trustees took action during a Tuesday afternoon special meeting to further expand the district’s one to one technology initiative for students from first grade to 12th grade.  The board approved a measure to purchase additional Chromebook devices to include all students in first through eighth grades. This will amount to ...

Lockhart ISD announced it will provide school supplies and a Chromebook for every Kindergarten - 12th grade student this upcoming school year in order to address equity issues and build student  and district resilience. The only item parents will need to purchase for students to go back to school is a backpack. Parents unable to purchase a backpack will ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas -- In a special-called board meeting July 7, Cy-Fair ISD trustees unanimously approved a plan to purchase enough Chromebook devices for all students in the district as well as 4G LTE broadband wireless hot spots for students without internet access at home. The district plans to spend up to $44 million on the effort, most of which will come ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – As the school year approaches — one that will begin with students learning at home — a new concern is rising.The Austin Independent School District estimates between two and four-thousand Chromebook laptops are unaccounted for.  According to the district, this isn’t uncommon at the end of the summer. The majority of these laptops ...

MESQUITE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – North Texas school districts are in the process of finalizing back to school plans. And in Mesquite, that means making sure students are prepared as well. An iPad or a Chromebook as well as a hotspot will go home to every Mesquite ISD student who needs it.

Ahead of the 2020-21 school year, Magnolia ISD will be selling and lending laptops to students who do not have access to a computer at home, district officials announced in an Aug. 3 news release.  “Many of our parents have shown an interest in purchasing a computer from the district,” the release reads.  Students looking ...

Nacogdoches ISD’s board in special session Monday unanimously approved purchasing nearly 5,000 computers for students along with 500 internet hotspots at a cost of around $780,000, but the tech upgrade won’t arrive before classes starts.“This is an expensive step but a necessary step,” board member Dr. Tyrrel Grohman said, joined by board president Pam Fitch who ...

The start of the new school year will be done remotely for districts across the Coastal Bend, and the Corpus Christi Independent School District is one of many offering help to families who need it.  CCISD has enough devices so that every family who needs one can have use of a laptop. However, that doesn’t mean every ...

Harris County commissioners on Tuesday voted to spend up to $32 million in federal COVID-19 funds on providing hundreds of thousands of WiFi hotspots and devices to children in school districts across the county.  The funds, provided through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES Act, will go toward the purchase of more than 200,000 devices, such as Chromebook ...

HOUSTON — As school districts rush to fine-tune their virtual learning plans, many are having to hurry up and wait when it comes to connecting students with devices to do their work online.  “Everybody in the world is looking for a computer and a Chromebook and a hotspot right now,” Galveston ISD Superintendent Dr. Kelli Moulton ...

HOUSTON — As school districts rush to fine-tune their virtual learning plans, many are having to hurry up and wait when it comes to connecting students with devices to do their work online.  “Everybody in the world is looking for a computer and a Chromebook and a hotspot right now,” Galveston ISD Superintendent Dr. Kelli Moulton ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Ayden Linares puts on a pair of white headphones and sits in front of a desktop computer while his mom gets ready for work.  By the time his teacher takes attendance, it's time for the 10-year-old's mom, Alexis Linares, to leave. The Emerson Elementary School fifth grader is going with her. &...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) - The Wichita Falls ISD is in the process of figuring out how it can create its own wifi network for the district.The school board will vote Monday whether to enter into a contract with Red River Technology to begin surveying sites and figuring out how to get internet to those who don’t ...

The Lake Travis school board received a series of updates on the district’s health advisory committee, corporate partnerships and several large purchases at its meeting Wednesday night.  Policy requires the board to be notified of purchases in the district that exceed $100,000, and the board received three such notifications at the meeting. Deputy Superintendent Holly Morris-Kuentz informed the ...

Fredericksburg Independent School District will hopefully receive a helpful $500,000-plus financial boost after the state announced a reimbursement program for remote learning support.  Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Division of Emergency Management announced the $420 million program Thursday. This was created “to cover costs incurred by Texas public schools that purchased Wi-Fi hotspots and/...

As of last week, second-, third- and fourth-grade students of LISD received their Chromebook, with PreK, Kinder and first graders still waiting for their laptops, which are currently being delivered to all the students. According to Executive Director for Technology Services Ambrosio Gomez III, the distribution will run until the Christmas break, in which the remaining laptops will be delivered ...

Denton ISD recently purchased more Google Chromebook devices to make the district a “1-to-1 environment,” meaning there is one dedicated district device for every student. “Our district stands committed to providing an exceptional education for all students and we are continually working to ensure that all students have access to the tools and resources necessary to participate ...

Paris ISD may cancel classes for part of next week due to inclement weather, but students must work remotely. Students who don’t have a remote learning device must contact their campus to arrange for one. A small amount of hot spots are available for those without internet access, and the $25 fee for checking out a Chromebook will be ...

New Caney ISD will issue Chromebooks to all sixth through 12th grade students this fall. This is part of an on-going initiative to prepare students for a technology-driven world. “Whether it’s college classes, technical programs or entering straight into the workforce, our kids will have the skills they need to succeed,” commented NCISD Superintendent Kenn ...

This fall, New Caney Independent School District will introduce approximately 10,000 Dell Chromebooks to students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade as part of an ongoing one-to-one initiative, known as 1:Vision, to prepare students for a technology-driven world.

In just over a couple weeks when students in Pampa head back to school they will be getting quite the surprise. Over the summer Pampa Independent School District purchased new technology to use in all middle and high school classrooms. 19-hundred Chromebooks will be implemented for classroom and home use.

New Caney Independent School District became the first district in the nation to issue Chromebooks to students from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade Tuesday.  The district handed out 10,000 laptops as part its initiative to place technology in the hands of students.  Students in the sixth grade through 12th grade will be able to the take the Chromebooks home with ...

The Temple Independent School District has created a plan to make sure their students have Internet access both at school and at home. New mobile hot spots will be available for students who received Chromebooks this year and who do not have Internet access at home.    

If CISD’s half-million dollar investment in classroom technology this year proves to be as successful as administrators and teachers believe, student backpacks are likely to get much lighter over the next few years as textbooks are replaced with Chromebooks. In a year in which the district was scheduled to adopt new science books, the CISD board of education ...

Sipping from coffee cups, they leaned over laptops through the morning, but these aren’t young professionals. They are seniors in Steve Mathews’ astronomy class at Randall High School. And they aren’t laptops, exactly. They’re Chromebooks, laptops that run on Google’s operating system and store most apps and data in the ...

New Caney Independent School District is nine weeks into the school year so far, which would be no different than any other year’s first nine weeks, except that earlier in the year, the district passed out some 6,000 Chromebooks to secondary students to incorporate into curriculum.

Last Thursday, Karnack Independent School District administration rolled out information during a special meeting about a grant which awarded the school district funds to purchase Chromebooks to use in classroom learning for students in second to sixth grades. On Friday, Karnack students were already putting the Chromebooks to use.

AUSTIN — Eighteen-year-old Wesley Johnson joined about five other Temple Independent School District students at a small blue booth in the Texas Capitol on Monday.  “We brought our Chromebooks, and we’re basically showing people how it helps us having technology in school and outside of school, getting work done,” Johnson said, after he and others ...

The Alvarado ISD school board Monday approved the purchase of 650 Chromebooks that will be housed in carts in classrooms at the new junior high school and will be available for classroom use as well as home checkout if needed. We want to impress upon our students that learning is an anytime, anywhere endeavor, said Alvarado ISD Director of Technology Julie ...

The English class assignment was simple: Write a short story for a comic book. But for this sixth-grade class at Kenneth White Junior High School the assignment took an interesting turn as students also had the chance to design their comic on school-funded laptops.

Brand New Moore Middle School kicked off the school year yesterday using Google in the classroom.  Using a classroom code, Chromebooks will allow students access to Google classroom, where students can check when work is due, submit paperless assignments, and get grades instantly from their teachers.  Seventh grade teacher Teresa Easterling says the program ...

Brand New Moore Middle School kicked off the school year yesterday using Google in the classroom.  Using a classroom code, Chromebooks will allow students access to Google classroom, where students can check when work is due, submit paperless assignments, and get grades instantly from their teachers.  Seventh grade teacher Teresa Easterling says the program ...

The McAllen school district plans to replace iPads with Chromebooks for most students by late fall. The Chromebooks will be issued to students in grades six through 12, said Mark May, a spokesman for the McAllen Independent School District. Students should expect to have them by November.

Splendora ISD students use technology to take SBAS At Greenleaf Elementary School, Mrs. Reynas fifth grade students are using Chromebooks (a laptop used primarily while connected to the Internet) to take Standard Based Assessments (SBAs). This is great practice for future online assessments, but also great for students who need educational accommodations.

Google products are growing as ubiquitous in classrooms as dry-erase markers. The most recent numbers show that more than half of classroom computers purchased for US schools are low-cost Chromebooks. And 50 million students, teachers and administrators use Google Apps For Education, a group of tools that include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and the purpose-built Google Classroom.

The Denton School Board will soon decide whether to spend $6.6 million to put more technology in the hands of their students. The Denton Independent School District is recommending a plan to the board that will put sets of about a dozen Google Chromebooks into most classrooms over the next four years.

The school board on Tuesday voted unanimously to purchase and distribute almost $6.6 million in new technology equipment and accessories to Denton ISD classrooms over the next four years. The district plans to supply grades K-12 with class sets of Google Chromebooks and Apple iPads, lockers in classrooms for storage, and technology training and professional development for teachers.

The Humble Independent School District is distributing new Chromebooks across the district, expanding computer access by putting devices into the hands of more students. By mid-April, elementary campuses will have 90 Chromebooks, and each middle and high school campus will have 60 Chromebooks, for a total of 3,330 new devices.

The Forney Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to purchase 8,000 HP Chromebooks at their regularly scheduled meeting on February 29, 2016. - See more at: http://inforney.com/education/item/4217-forney-isd-to-purchase-8-000-hp-chromebooks-at-1-44-million#sthash.RGM5dJOC.dpuf

The Cleburne ISD board of trustees approved the purchase of several technological items for teachers and the classrooms to be paid for with bond funds. The board on Wednesday approved the purchase of iPad Air 2 devices, iPad Air 2 cases and Microsoft Chromebooks for teachers and laptops and other classroom set ups for the instructional audio/video interactive classrooms for a ...

The fact that 6th grade students who attend the Wichita Falls Independent School district are beginning the new school year with new devices had parents asking why the younger students were the only ones benefiting. Ashley Thomas, the WFISD Public Information Officer, said eventually all students in middle school will have access to this technology. The fact that 6th ...

It’s looking a lot like Christmas came early this fall in the Klein Independent School District. Staff have doled out 6,700 Chromebooks to students attending Kleb, Ulrich, Wunderlich and Schindewolf Intermediate Schools. And the students –- and teachers -- are putting the electronic devices to good use.

Over the last year, the Huntsville Independent School District has been taking huge strides in regards to equipping the district with the necessary technology and devices to help students be successful. From putting Chromebooks into student’s hands to installing buses with Wi-Fi, the district has gone above and beyond to ensure students maximize their learning capabilities. 

Amarillo ISD is asking students to return certain district-issued Chromebooks to school administrators, after three of them caught fire, this week.    According to AISD, no students were injured when the Acer 720P Chromebooks caught fire. The damage was reportedly contained to the cases.     

Amarillo Independent School District announced Friday it is collecting thousands of laptops issued to students after three of them caught fire this week. In all, the district asked students to return about 4,000 Acer 720P Chromebooks. Roughly half of those were issued to Palo Duro High School students as part of a 1:1 computing program. Students were allowed to use the touchscreen ...

Research conducted by Project Tomorrow indicates that mobile devices increase student engagement, student-teacher communications and access to course materials outside of the classroom. To reap these benefits, Arlington Independent School District (AISD) in Texas is introducing more than 1,800 Carrier 30 Carts from LocknCharge to have the capacity to hold more than 54,000 Chromebooks.

This month, students and their parents were warned by the Amarillo Independent School District to return any school-issued Acer touchscreen chromebooks due to three incidents that led to these laptops to overheat and catch fire.  The school district is still recovering all school chromebooks to ensure the safety of students and their homes.   Amarillo ISD has issued the ...

Amarillo Independent School District high school students are now getting their district-issued laptops back, after two Acer Chromebooks overheated and one caught fire. The three damaged Chromebooks were shipped to Acer's manufacturer for inspection in October. Instead of sending all 4,000 away, nine technicians traveled to Amarillo and spent last week individually inspecting each of the laptops.

While Marble Falls Independent School District recognizes the importance of students using the latest technology — the district issued many students Chromebooks — officials also know not every child has access to high-speed internet at home. To help those students, MFISD has created several Outdoor Access Points, available to secondary students for free. The points allow Wi-Fi access 24 hours a ...

Whether it’s dreams of growing up to be a mechanic, firefighter, doctor or teacher, the one thing most jobs have in common nowadays is the use of technology. Knowing this, the Angleton ISD technology department is working to ensure the district’s students are prepared for their future occupations.

As part of an effort to provide a computer to every student in Ector County Independent School District, about 140 Chromebooks were delivered to Falcon Early College High School on Wednesday.

On Friday, students at various schools in the WFISD got to show off how new technology is changing the way kids learn in the classroom during Digital Learning Day. School administrators had the chance to take several community members and other members of the education field on a tour of several campuses to see first hand how educators can use ...

For Tatum ISD, the introduction of cheaper computers and Google educational apps means the district has moved away from the Microsoft devices and equipment used in the past, said Director of Technology Wes Boyd. "Most things are web-based these days," Boyd said. "You don't do a whole lot of installing on computers anymore. (Google) Chromebooks are basically a tool ...