Windows 10 in the Classroom: Better Digital Districts Start with Strong PartnershipsAs learning becomes more dependent on technology, making the right hardware, software, and operating system choices is more critical than ever. Correct choices ensure a transparent learning platform where students and teachers seamlessly communicate, cooperate, and create together in class, around school, or on the go.

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Engaged learning lets teachers and students collaborate in meaningful ways.

The release of Windows 10 brings much awaited updates and improvements to the Windows OS. Districts and schools are evaluating the operating system’s potential to bring a new level of student productivity. The OS is optimized to help students succeed with new instructional models and priorities:

• Learning has become not a place, but rather a set of tasks and conversations

• Students are working across multiple devices from multiple locations

• Instructional materials are focused on creativity, group collaboration, and advanced problem solving

• Rich multimedia is essential to digital teaching and learning

• Content and conversations are being personalized to match student strengths

Today’s digital learners don’t need technology that gives them the answer. They need tools that facilitate their questions, reveal their importance, and help them discover answers together. This is learning transformed from the programmatic to the personal — from long lectures to life-driven lessons and experiences resonating beyond the end of class.

WINDOWS 10: A NEW STANDARD IN EDUCATION COMPUTINGAs more applications and services move to the web, it’s easy to wonder — does the OS matter anymore? In a world of touch-driven convenience and cloud-powered solutions, users are less concerned about an operating system, they’re focused on experience. IT is also less concerned with a single user and more about overall manageability, requisite security, and solutions to balancing costs and creating opportunities for innovation.

Windows has long been the operating system that runs the world. As that world has changed, education included, Microsoft has brought new ideas and improvements to Windows 10.

• Seamless anywhere learning that lets teachers and students collaborate in more natural, meaningful ways that improve learning outcomes

• Simplified manageability that helps stretch precious IT resources and dollars and reduce infrastructure complexity

• Strong, intuitive security that safeguards student data and privacy in class, around campus, or on the go

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Today’s learners are always on the move. From classroom to library, from campus to home, and everywhere in between. Traditionally, ed tech was all about access points. Today’s digital learning infrastructure is about nonstop connectivity, enabling learning to happen where and when it needs to.

• Windows 10 was designed for universal Windows applications that behave the same on a desktop as they do a laptop, tablet, or phone

• Windows Continuum provides a seamless experience for users switching between multiple modes and devices, with customizable capabilities that detect tablet activity or external keyboard use

• A combination of deep customization and cloud-driven backup and configuration means a deeply personalized learning experience can follow students from device to device

It’s not just about learning on the go. Windows 10 also allows students to fully engage with digital content and conversations in new ways. Even as they work across multiple devices, what’s important to their lessons shines through.

• New Edge browser empowers students to interact with and share the content they encounter while browsing

• Innovative Cortana digital assistant automatically captures and indexes information across devices for fast, easy recall of critical resources

• Snap Assist feature in Windows 10 allows users to “snap” a window to one side of their screen without having to resize it manually

What does it mean for schools?

By empowering teachers and students to learn and collaborate with ease, Windows 10 is opening up a whole new world of digital possibilities.

SIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITYGiving a single device to a student is easy enough. Deploying the same device over and over across a school or district can create real challenges to your resources and sanity. Once deployed, these devices also have to be secured, upgraded, and updated. Windows 10 gives education IT specialists a computing platform optimized for simple deployment and even easier maintenance.

• Reduced support costs through easier management of 2-in-1 users

• Broad backward hardware and software compatibility

• Superior integrated support for desktop virtualization

Apart from individual users needing to adapt, big change is never easy for IT, who struggle to integrate new technology choices. Windows 10 was designed to reduce the disruption and uncertainty that can sometimes come with big, new deployments.

• Easy upgrade choices include in-place migration optimized for minimal disruption

• More granular provisioning options for maximum migration flexibility

• Advanced tools built right in, including Mobile Device Management and the ability to run/upgrade Windows as a service

What does it mean for schools?

Easy manageability makes overall technology plans and budgets more predictable. It also frees up IT specialists to spend their time addressing more strategic, higher value challenges.

Seamless Anywhere Learning

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Today’s digital learning infrastructure is about nonstop connectivity.

Windows 10 helps users stay productive and protected, matching the always-evolving landscape of threats with a robust, layered approach to multipoint security. Windows 10 combines the latest and greatest in user and identity management with deep, two-factor authentication and advanced device capabilities. It gives users and administrators peace of mind that important information stays safe.

• Microsoft Passport makes it easier to deploy and use biometrics and multifactor authentication to keep student identities and information safer.

• Device Guard wraps an extra layer of device-level defense around the operating system to prevent malware from permanently compromising a student’s PC.

• Advanced Azure Active Directory integration helps manage student access and identity across web and cloud services.

Users want strong security, but they don’t want it to impact productivity. Institutions manage the same tension, balancing secure best practices with solutions that allow users to get their job done. Windows 10 gives tools that allow them to improve device and data security quickly and simply.

• Integrated, easy to manage data containerization

• Built-in BitLocker full-drive encryption, right out of the box

• For even more advanced data control: Enterprise Data Protection, which even protects against leaks

While some of these features have been available in previous versions of Windows, Windows 10 puts these powerful security tools to work for any user.

What does it mean for schools?

As worries about data security and compliance rise, Windows 10 lets IT respond with solutions that help users and stakeholders focus on student achievement. Robust solution security is built right in.

Strong, Intuitive Security

Robust solution security is built right in.

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Make intelligent IT choices, and maximize return on investments.

A COMMITMENT TO NONSTOP QUALITYBoth Microsoft and Lenovo® share a common goal: continuously improving our products and solutions. Whether it’s a new OS or the latest in military grade device durability, we work hard every day to design and deliver innovation that matters to real customers.

• Windows 10 was built with over 200,000 pieces of feedback from users.

• Lenovo collaborates continuously through customer councils and working groups.

The end result? A relentless focus on quality and improvement delivers tools that are right-sized for user needs. Real computing solutions stand up to the demands of digital learning with technology that impresses, but also inspires a confidence to do more.

VALUE YOU CAN TRUSTAs districts consider how to best meet digital learning and assessment requirements, considerations around value and budget need to be taken into account. Most digital districts today are seeking to increase the predictability of capital budgets, make intelligent IT choices, and maximize return on investments.

Windows has always maintained a keen focus on providing the right device for the right need, while fitting within tight school budgets. Windows 10 devices work with a broad range of peripherals for existing computing environments, eliminating the need for heavy investments in maintenance, upgrades, and deployments. Schools can also stretch their IT budgets by taking advantage of volume

licensing options for education and new student use benefits available with Windows 10 Education.

True to its commitment to building with military grade toughness, Lenovo’s devices are designed for the real-world challenges that stem from constant student use. Devices integrate features like rubber bumpers, reinforced hinges, and spill-resistant keyboards — offering added durability that makes a huge difference in stretching IT investments across districts.

THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSEThe flexibility in Windows 10 gives schools complete freedom in how they choose to deploy and manage the OS, whether it is for one classroom or thousands.

• Windows 10 is designed to work with existing software and hardware, making it easier for administrators to manage districtwide upgrades and deployments.

• Deployment is simplified with in-place upgrades and dynamic provisioning, and deployment costs are reduced with strong app and device compatibility.

• Schools can choose the cloud or on premise management solutions best for them.

Lenovo’s devices are also built for simple deployment and easy upgrades and maintenance. Many of the devices are delivered fully loaded with the exact operating system and applications that a school might need. Lenovo’s system migration assistant can also easily convert individual users to Lenovo, making districtwide deployments convenient and efficient.

Leadership Through Innovation: Windows 10 and Lenovo

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Partnership for Strong Digital Districts

Windows 10 and Lenovo in your classroom.

When paired with Lenovo’s solutions, Windows 10 delivers the building blocks for a smarter 21st century classroom. Lenovo’s reliable education-ready devices that run Windows 10 offer a variety of learning experiences. These experiences prepare K-12 students for a bright future with effective tools, increased flexibility, and independent learning skills.

To learn more about how Lenovo and Windows 10 can help K-12 students succeed today and tomorrow, visit www.lenovo.com or contact eduteam@lenovo.com for more details. Follow us on Twitter at @LenovoEducation.