Elementary schools with 1:1 programs, which supply each student with a device, increased from 25% to 29%.Despite concerns from some about excessive screen time, fees sometimes passed along to students, and the challenge for teachers to incorporate the technology into meaningful lessons, the consortium predicted 38% of students would have not one, but two devices within three years and that 18 percent would have three devices in that time.'For districts who don't have the manpower, it's a big undertaking. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson) 'Our turnaround time is quicker now because we have more hands and the kids can repair a screen in a study hall, or during their lunch they can repair a screen,' Stellato said.In 2018, 59% of high schools and 63% of middle schools reported that each of their students had access to their own device, an annual survey by the Consortium for School Networking found, up from 53% and 56%, respectively, in 2017. The district and others around the country are training students to help with software and hardware issues that arise as teachers and students do more of their daily schoolwork on school-issued laptops and iPads. In this April 16, 2019, photo, eighth grade student technicians Mirakle Singleton, left, and Naureen Unaysa, right, instruct teacher Kaila Burgio in the use of a computer program at Buffalo Public School No. Winch Middle School in South Glens Falls, New York.Modeled after Apple's 'genius bars,' the group works out of the library during and after school to service student Chromebooks. Anything that we can do here, they can do,' said technology specialist Jerilyn Stellato, talking about her 'Tech Team Junior' members at Oliver W. Buffalo students even make field trips to an Apple store to learn technical support.'They can do anything. Students, in turn, hone practical skills.It's a strategy playing out around the country as schools increasingly supply devices to every student.Student techs learn hardware and software fixes for the inevitable cracked screens, stuck keys, freeze-ups and dead batteries from school staff, each other, and online tutorials.

(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1449240174198-2') ) In walked 11-year-old Arefa Zaman, a sixth-grader with silver sneakers and a yellow 'tech squad' T-shirt, who quickly went to work.Buffalo Public Schools officials say it only makes sense for the youngsters who have grown up with technology to be part of the upkeep of the district's thousands of iPads and laptops used every day. When she learned her building had a new team of technical experts, she put in a request for help. Buffalo kindergarten teacher Maria Spurlock was still struggling after trying for more than a week to get a reading app working on all of her classroom iPads.

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