Top Four Tips for Student Laptops/iPads:
- Your hold is important! There are two ways to hold it: two hands like a lunch tray or hold it like your long, lost best friend. Important things need love. These devices are important to the work that we do in the classroom. Please help your kiddos remember this.
- The floor is not your friend! It feels natural to many students (and teachers) to sit on the floor and work. This often leads to students placing the devices on the floor and incidentally using them as leverage to get up, which results in cracked screens. A hard, elevated surface is best!
- Unhook those headphones! Do not move around room with headphones plugged in. Repeated experiences with headphones still plugged in could result in headphones broken off in devices. Unplug before you go!
- No liquids on tables where devices are used. Spills and technology do not mix. See teacher computers for more details.
Top Four Tips for Teacher Laptops:
- That 15 minute lock that drives you crazy? It is there to ensure that the amazing student data that is behind that computer is safe, secure, and away from public use.
- Wrap power cords! Not only are they more organized in your cute teacher bag, but it increases the longevity of the cord.
- Computers do not like hot or cold! Do not store them in locations that will make them shiver or sweat.
- They also are not fans of liquid! We need to stay hydrated. Teacher laptops (and student devices) do not. This is the highest cause of accidental damage. Keep the water bottles away!
