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Europe Seen Leading the Way in Hand-Held Computing

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 17, Clicks: 4)
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While hand-held mobile learning is viewed in the United States as a recent trend, its roots go further back in the United Kingdom and Western Europe.

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Australia: iPad, therefore I am, and keeping a wired open mind

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://www.theage.com.au (Views: 22, Clicks: 5)
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THE backpacks at Albert Park College look a little small. But then everything at the school, which is entering its second year, is a little different. Students helped design the bags and point out that they do not need many books. Nor any calculators, notebooks, atlases and diaries. Instead each student has what the principal calls an "electronic pencil box": an iPad.

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Most Connected Classrooms

nitajo sumitted ago via http://education.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com (Views: 34, Clicks: 5)
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Computers, wireless Internet, interactive digital workspaces, technical support staff, and high online engagement are keys to building a connected classroom. We surveyed schools from our Best High Schools rankings to gauge their connectivity. Of the 301 that responded, the following are the Most Connected Classrooms.

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Apple Education Event Rumored to Be About Textbooks

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 39, Clicks: 5)
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The New York Times reported Apple will on Jan. 19 in New York announce a push into the digital textbook market, according to an unnamed source close to the company.

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iPads help patients at The Children's Center find their voices

nitajo sumitted ago via http://newsok.com (Views: 49, Clicks: 4)
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New iPads add to the high-tech tools used to help improve disabled children's communication. To the patients at The Children's Center in Bethany, it opens up communication so that the child communicates without the teacher or therapist always having to interpret.

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Textbooks 'being replaced by smartphones and e-readers'

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.telegraph.co.uk (Views: 44, Clicks: 5)
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Traditional textbooks are dying out in schools as children increasingly rely on smartphones and e-readers to access information, according to a leading headmistress.

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Fingertip math = better marks

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.lfpress.com (Views: 46, Clicks: 5)
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If you're not keen on kids playing with their electronics in class, this might change your mind. Students in Derrick Driscoll's applied math class play with electronics every day and it's improving their test scores

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Hartford-area Catholic school leaders get iPads

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.boston.com (Views: 45, Clicks: 5)
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Educators at several of Connecticut's Catholic schools have received iPad tablet computers to help them embrace the technology and learn how to incorporate it in their offices and classes.

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7 key questions to ask about ed technology, online learning

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 108, Clicks: 4)
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Cathy N. Davidson -- The outcry against exploitative online for-profit education is growing at roughly the same rate as the clamor for increasing amounts of educational technology — laptops, tablets, smart boards — from preschool to life-long learning. Unfortunately, a lot of the conversation is sliding into the “pro” and “con” mode of contemporary punditry.

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Proof in Study: Math App Improves Test Scores (And Engagement)

nitajo sumitted ago via http://mindshift.kqed.org (Views: 71, Clicks: 9)
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The first iPad was released in April 2010, and since then, its potential as a learning device has been explored by educators, app developers, and the exploding ed-tech industry. These days, it’s not uncommon to read about school districts handing out iPads as textbook replacements.

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MOTION MATH IN-CLASS

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.gamedesk.org (Views: 57, Clicks: 5)
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The app Motion Math, which teaches players about fractions, commissioned an independent study with 122 fifth-graders and came up with some encouraging results. According to the report, released by GameDesk, showed that fifth graders’ fractions test scores improved an average of over 15% after playing Motion Math for 20 minutes daily over a five-day period, a significant increase compared to a control group.

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Math That Moves: Schools Embrace the iPad

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 40, Clicks: 6)
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Technological fads have come and gone in schools, and other experiments meant to rev up the educational experience for children raised on video games and YouTube have had mixed results. Educators, for instance, are still divided over whether initiatives to give every student a laptop have made a difference academically.

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Survey of School Administrators Explores Digital Classrooms, Major Challenges

Skinner sumitted ago via http://thejournal.com (Views: 53, Clicks: 4)
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Nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of school administrators who responded to a recent survey said 1:1 computing classrooms where teachers act as a coach for students are the future of education, in a poll that looked at some of the changes, opportunities, and challenges that lie ahead for schools.

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Programming for Children, Minus Cryptic Syntax

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.nytimes.com (Views: 30, Clicks: 4)
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New and more sophisticated tools are changing the way that the next generation learns to program computers. Children can now create elaborate scenes and games without the cryptic commands that were once the only way to tell computers what to do.

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