Nicholas Negroponte founded the MIT Media Lab (1980), WiReD Magazine (1990), and One Laptop per Child. Nicholas has recently launched a reading experiment to learn whether poor and remote kids (5-10 years old) can learn to read on their own with a solar powered, Android tablet suitably loaded with immersive and constructionist material.
"Zack Matere, a farmer in Soy, Kenya, searched for a way to save his dying crops. What he discovered was a desire to help local farmers and businesses access information."
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Tom Daccord of Ed Tech Teacher talks about rethinking the iPad as a creation device and not as a substitute for the laptop computer. This episode is based on the Edudemic article "5 Critical Mistakes Schools Make with iPads and How to Correct Them" http://www.edudemic.com/5-critical-mi... ."
Create video based quizzes with this useful site and share them online with your class. Search for YouTube videos within the site and crop the section you what to use. Then enter your questions and multiple correct & wrong choices to build the quiz.
http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools