Students at the Tuskegee Airmen Global Academy (TAG) cheered emphatically as confetti fell and the school revealed its newest banner celebrating becoming the first Apple Distinguished School in metro Atlanta. Apple Distinguished Schools are centers of leadership and educational excellence that demonstrate Apple’s vision for learning with technology. “It was a big day for Tuskegee […]
The winners of the Level Up Minecraft Student Build Challenge received a handful of awards and prizes from the APS Department of Instructional Technology for their amazing Minecraft builds. In addition to meeting Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens and being recognized at City Hall during the Year of the Youth address, the winners later received a […]
Atlanta Public Schools students have been challenged to solve real issues for the real world by creating their own solutions in a virtual world. APS has partnered with the city of Atlanta and the mayor’s office to bring the Level Up: Minecraft Student Build Challenge to Atlanta. In this challenge, which is open to APS […]
Atlanta Public Schools has passed out nearly 1,500 fully activated electronic devices to students in 11 of the district’s high schools, as part of the Sprint 1Million Program — a five-year initiative of Sprint and the Sprint Foundation that will connect 1,000,000 low-income high school students, nationally, who do not have internet access at home. APS […]
Humphries, Usher-Collier Heights, and E.L. Connally are three of the APS elementary schools that recently participated in the Hour of Code. Computer Science Education Week describes Hour of Code as an opportunity for every student to try computer science for one hour. During Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 9-15), over 10 million students and computer science enthusiasts participated in […]
This fall Atlanta Public Schools (APS) was one of the first districts in the country to participate in Microsoft’s Bing for Schools (www.bing.com/explore/rewardsforschools) pilot program. Bing for Schools is now live at APS and currently provides ad-free web searches for all students. Bing for Schools offers K-12 public and private schools in the U.S. the […]
Atlanta Public Schools (APS) is one of the first districts in the country to participate in Microsoft’s Bing for Schools pilot program. Today, Bing.com launched the free, national pilot program to offer schools across America the choice to provide ad-free web searches in their schools. The Bing for Schools pilot program offers K-12 public and […]
The Atlanta Public Schools Instructional Technology Department has developed the Student Technology Advisory Council, or STAC for short. The purpose of STAC is for the district to gain student perspectives on technology and effective learning in the classroom. Each student provides their input on current district initiatives and solutions, as well as technology issues that […]