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technologythis newfound problem:foryears,(IT)specialist looked atme with a mixture大I dealt with students'crumpledof amusement and bewilderment.He hadpapers,usually discovered at the bot-become the person in charge ofmanagingtom of backpacks or spilling out ofIT at alocal high school that had recently decided tobinders.Now,those crumpled papersimplement a one-to-one tablet program.were digital,quietly hidden within theHis most recent task was to refurbish the 1,500 orconfines ofasleek tablet that itselfmightso tablets that hadbeen turnedin after the firstyear.Asbe stuffed at the bottom ofa backpack.anyone working with high school students can attest,The lack ofphysical signs of disorga-there is normally significant wear and tear on any itemnization was one reason many teachersafter a full year's use.andadministratorswere unawareof the\"What was the most surprising thing you foundroot cause of the problem.when you went through all the tablets?\"I asked,Over time,I realized that althoughexpecting that most of the time was spent fixingbrokenthey went to great lengths to make surescreens and replacing missing covers.students knew how to use programs to\"Well,\"he said slowly,\"one thing that surprised me×  \nT  \nhelp with note taking and informationwas that some of the students,and Iwent back andretention,such as Notability and Micro-figured out they were mostly freshman boys,had tabletsoft OneNote,they had done nothingtoscreens completely covered with documents.It was ashelpstudents comeupwith strategies foriftheyjust saved everything to the home screen of theirorganizing files andmanagingworkflow.tablet for the entire year.\"Theymay have assumed students wouldIn other words,these students had never learnedorfigure these things out ontheirown,andappreciated the simple genius of digital folders.in some cases,students did.In manyHewent on to describe the overall physical conditioncases,though,students did not—andof these tablets—they were also,unsurprisingly,some-often,they didn't understand exactlywhy they felt so overwhelmed.Theschoolalsohad notprovidedclearAnaHomayoun is aneducator,schoolconsultant,and authorguidelines furfaculty onhow and whereofthree books,most recently Social Media Wellness:Helping  \nto announce assignments and exams,Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World(Corwin,2017),from which this article is excerpted with per-andhow to dlistribute and collect assign-mission.Learn more about her work at wwu.anahomayoun.ments and essays.As a result,stodentscom orfollow heron Twitter @anahomayoun.werejuggling standards and expectations  \n36 AMERICAN EDUCATOR |SPRING 2019  \nfrom sixorseven differentteachers.Someteachers preferred Google Docs,othersused Dropboxor Box tomanagefile shar-ing,and still others used apps that arenow unavailable.The new standardsaround tabletuse created anentirely newlanguage,hut in many cases,studentswereleft without a dictionary.  \n## The New Language ofTechnology in 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