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The New 3 Es of Education - 0 views

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    Project Tomorrow This report is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2010. In this report "The New 3E's of Education: Enabled, Engaged, Empowered - How Today's Students are Leveraging Emerging Technologies for Learning," we are building upon that student vision and focusing on three specific key trends that have generated significant interest this past year at conferences, in policy discussions and within our schools and districts: mobile learning, online and blended learning and e-textbooks. Each of these trends include the essential components of the student vision of socially-based, un-tethered and digitally rich learning, but they also directly address the three new "E's of Education" - enable, engage and empower.
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Tablet Ownership Triples Among College Students - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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  • The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership.
  • One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.
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Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers and Students - 0 views

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    Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers and Students
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'Free-Range Learners': Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Conten... - 0 views

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  • “It’s almost like they want to find the content by themselves,”
  • Ms. Morgan borrows the phrase “free-range learning” to describe students’ behavior, and she finds that they generally shop around for content in places educators would endorse. Students seem most favorably inclined to materials from other universities.
  • They “don’t want to ask librarians or tutors in the study center or stuff like that,” she says. “It’s more the informal networks that they’re using.”
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Review: JFF's Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media to provide a diverse range of students with multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. The student-centered classroom harnesses the flexibility of new media for the teacher, providing a rich set of tools and resources to elevate and differentiate teaching. In that rich environment, the teacher can be both a content provider and the classroom’s most experienced and savvy teacher/learner, a model of the kind of expert learner students can emulate.
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How Much Does Blended Learning Cost? -- THE Journal - 0 views

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  • Many inputs go into the costs behind a blended-learning school: the number of teachers and administrators; their specific salaries; the instructional materials and technologies; student services; and other school operations.
  • The paper reaches the conclusion that the costs of blended learning are significantly lower than the $10,000 national average for traditional brick-and-mortar schools. They find that, on average, the costs range from $7,600 to $10,200.
  • Our own view is that blended learning will and should help schools--and ultimately the public--save money. But the overriding reason to adopt a blended-learning school isn't because of its cost savings, but instead because of the benefits for students that can result. Ultimately blended learning should help schools and policymakers move our education system to a student-centric one that educates children both more effectively and efficiently.
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Bring Your Own Device Prompts School Infrastructure Investments - 0 views

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  • Many of the nation's school districts still don't have the bandwidth needed to support mobile devices used by students.
  • Michael Comins on 14 Mar 12
     
    Many of the nation's school districts still don't have the bandwidth needed to support mobile devices used by students.
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Survey: Tablet Ownership Up Among H.S., College Students - Digital Education - Educatio... - 0 views

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  • tablet owners more than quadrupled among college-bound high school seniors during the past year, with 17 percent surveyed this year claiming a tablet device as their own.
  • It also more than tripled among college students, with a quarter of this year's respondents owning a tablet.
  • 69 percent of high school seniors and 63 percent of college students said they believed tablets would effectively replace textbooks within five years,
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  • two thirds owned an Apple iPad, with the Kindle Fire and the Samsung Galaxy Tab far behind.
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There's More Than One Way to Flip a Classroom - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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  • Another aspect of flipped classrooms that the panelists had in common was a desire to personalize and individualize learning for their students.
  • By using videos, students can then watch the lectures and receive educational content at their own pace
  • instead of spending an entire class period lecturing, teachers can then spend that time working directly with students—answering questions and facilitating activities.
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Online Teacher of the Year: Individualized instruction is key | eSchool News - 0 views

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  • Through a combination of blended learning, individualized instruction, and enthusiasm, online biology teacher Leslie Fetzer’s dedication to helping her special-needs students develop core learning skills contributed to her new title as the 2012 National Online Teacher of the Year for K-12 education.
  • Fetzer said that teaching online lets her instantly individualize instruction for her students, and she is able to personalize lessons to appeal to each student’s own areas of interest or preferences. Access to different online tools and technologies is an added benefit.
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  • i-Ready’s two components, adaptive diagnostic and standards preparation, provide a visually appealing and fun approach to educational materials. Both programs allow teachers, parents and administrators to follow the progress of every student down to the skill level. The diagnostic program not only identifies the grade level a student is at, but pin points the skills needed to improve and adapts lessons accordingly.
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  • One reason why paper textbooks cost so much is because publishers need to recover their costs of producing new books in the first or second semester, Brady said. That's because the books end up in the used book market after that time, where publishers don't get a cut. And digital textbooks have kept a similar high-priced model, he said, which encourages students to break the encryption on them or stick with paper books because they can sell them back.
  • And videos, of course, can't be printed.
  • By using the HTML5 online content language, Brady hopes to give students cheaper instructional books that will give them all their material in one place. And the material will be updated in near real time.
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  • Brady plans to embed video tutorials and interviews with business leaders for what he calls a "learning book" on logistics and supply chain management. If his group finds enough funding, the book would be updated with real-time information and would sell for $15 or $20.
  • Brady's idea is a good one, Buttross said, though Brady isn't the only one working on something like this. He would actually like to see Brady's learning book have 40 modules so that he can pick the 16 he wants to use in his class
  • "I think that in general you shouldn't sell books," Buttross said. "You should sell modules and let professors put together their own books."
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To support ed tech, schools need to rethink budgets, infrastructure | eSchool News - 0 views

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  • Two-thirds of students want to use technology more often in their classrooms, and 76 percent of IT staff said faculty members show increasing interest in implementing educational technology.
  • But 87 percent of IT professionals said they would need to upgrade their infrastructure before they can incorporate much more technology in their classrooms, and almost nine in 10 faculty members anticipate problems moving away from the traditional lecture model.
  • “Schools need to have resources equal or better than what [students] have at home,” Washington said.
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Go mobile or go home | ZDNet - 0 views

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  • the market for interactive textbooks is taking off (Kno, one of the biggest publishers of e-textbooks, has compiled enough data from extensive use of its platform to publish data on student effectiveness), iPads are everywhere, the Kindle Fire is seeing significant adoption, and Google's Nexus 7 already has solid retail and pre-order traction outside of the technorati who usually represent Google early adopters.
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How to Build a Basic Toolbox for 21st-Century Learning - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille... - 0 views

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    How to Build a Basic Toolbox for 21st-Century Learning
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