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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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How Technology Is Changing Traditional Learning Methods | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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Teacher Training & the Push for Online Education | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views

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  • Ensuring that teachers are properly trained to use technology resources is fast becoming as big of a budgetary concern as was acquiring the technology in the first place.
  • Often overlooked however, is that not all teachers are immediately comfortable transitioning to a wired classroom.
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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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School District In Poor Border Region Gets Technology Rich | Fronteras Desk - 0 views

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shared by Michael Comins on 06 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • The outcome will be quite innovative. Within a year, the school district expects all 25,000 students to have an iPad — for grades 3-12 — or an iPod Touch for those in kindergarten through 2nd grade.
  • The total price tag of $20 million — over five years — will be covered with district money.
  • Federal funds will help with infrastructure. Free training will be provided by Abilene Christian University (ACU), a leader in educational technology instruction.
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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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Live From SXSWedu: A Closer Look at Pearson's E-Textbooks - Marketplace K-12 - Educatio... - 0 views

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  • There's been some dispute to these numbers. Lee Wilson, a veteran of the education industry, blogged exhaustively that Apple e-textbooks actually cost six-to-seven times more than print textbooks. Using estimated data from his own experience and from technology directors, he determined Apple textbooks cost $71.55 per student, per class, as opposed to $14.26 for print textbooks. He factored purchase of the devices into cost. (I urge you to read his post, and his follow-up, and judge the numbers yourself.)
  • Either way, if the price tag for iPads and e-textbooks ends up being too costly and districts aren't seeing much of a different from their print past, meeting Arne Duncan's digital textbook goals may be tough.
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Ditching a Textbook: An Update - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • I started off by selecting a few myself (e.g., technology and privacy, technology and civic discourse, immigration), and showing students the kinds of resources they might be able to find. Then, for the latter part of the course, they chose the issues, found sources, and shared them in the class Zotero library. Working in teams or as individuals (depending on which section they were in), they were then responsible for running a class session and assigning readings for that session.
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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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Blended Learning: New Solution to an Old Problem | Getting Smart by %author_name% | %tag% - 0 views

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  • We can provide every student in America access to great teachers, but that won’t happen in a traditional classroom (as Public Impact has so clearly spelled out)—it will happen when we leverage talent with technology and blend the best of online and onsite learning.
  • To power these new models that combine local and national resources, Digital Learning Now calls for educational funding that is weighted, portable, and performance-based.
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