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The Revolution Works Weekends
It’s happening all around us. This digital revolution isn’t taking any time off. I’m getting the chance to witness a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative firsthand, and the results have been as expected . . . GREAT! Getting to this point, though, has left us with a lot of bumps, scrapes and bruises.
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One Giant Leap For Humanity, Now Education
The first time a kid said that his DREAM was to score in the top quintile on a standardized test, that was when we became the dystopian, near-future, cold world where dreams die that SyFy movies have been promising us since the 1950s.
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5 Wireless Considerations When Introducing BYOD at Your School
In this blog we will cover the top five wireless considerations in introducing BYOD to your school and they are defining BYOD policies; growing client densities; managing the different devices; managing the classroom; and understanding the impact BYOD has on supporting classroom applications.
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Infographic: Are You Going BYOD?
As another school year begins many leaders will again question whether or not to implement a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or Technology (BYOT) policy in their classrooms. The infographic below highlights many of the pros and cons to letting students use personal devices in the classrooms.
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Change the space, change the program, expect high outcomes
Stephen Harris directs the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (@scil). It is the research, creativity and development unit of a K-12 school serving 1300 students. His philosophy is change the space, change the program, expect high outcomes.
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Celling a Great Idea
Event horizon: Smartphones will be in all classrooms. When that event horizon comes to pass, the switch to smartphone access in class will be so utterly quick and complete that the time before smartphones will seem like a distant memory, a work of fiction, something from an Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel. Anthropologists will call it the “Before Smartphones Era” or possibly the “BS Period.”
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1:1 in Peru Suggests Instruction is Important
The OLPC program in Peru appears to be content-light and naive. Kids appears to spend a lot of time on non-academic software (which may have some cognitive benefit) but there is no evidence that student spend more time reading. Unlike top blended models in the states, UNESCO points out that "the time allocated to activities directly related to school does not seem to have changed." With no effort to change time and literacy and numeracy instruction it is not surprising that academic impacts appear to be weak.
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RabbleBrowser: Improve Classroom Management With Mobile Learning
“The concept of the 60-minute learning block is broken,” says Chad Udell, the managing director of Float Mobile Learning (Float). “We’re entering an new age where what constitutes learning and what provides learning is changing.”
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Pros & Cons: Is Elementary Too Early for 1:1 Technology?
The merits of 1:1 technology in education are so impressive that one question might be raised: How young is too young for students to benefit from 1:1 classroom technology? Specifically, are elementary students too young to have one computing device per child available to them at all times?
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5 things you’ll see more of in 2012
The year coming to a close was difficult for many educators given a second year of budget cutting but it was an inflection point in the shift to personal digital learning. As we turn the corner from the old batch-print system you will see more of these 5 things in 2012: android tabs, playlists, BYOD, online learning, and investment.