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The 10 Big Issues of Our Time | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • Big data policy:  more measures for improvement and accountability.  Specific issues: school accountability, teacher evaluation, instructional improvement, and student matriculation.
  • Customized learning: emerging strategies for adaptive, personalized and social learning.  Specific issues: role of curriculum architects, mixing open and proprietary content.
  • Improving conditions & careers: how blended learning is improving the teaching profession. Specific issues:  evaluating in a team-based differentiated environment, managing a distributed staff with dynamic scheduling, and a really big issue–providing rich JIT PD during the shift.
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SmartTech Roundup | Getting Smart - 0 views

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  • PC Mag reports that over 1.5 million are in use in educational institutions (bet it’s a lot more than that).  Boston’s NPR station reports that over 600 districts have ditched textbooks and purchased iPads for all students.
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i-Ready is Ready for Prime Time | Getting Smart - 0 views

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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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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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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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Learning Powered by Technology - 0 views

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    The NETP presents a model of 21st century learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The plan also identifies far-reaching "grand challenge problems" that should be funded and coordinated at a national level.
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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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  • 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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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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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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School District In Poor Border Region Gets Technology Rich | Fronteras Desk - 0 views

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  • 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 to make one-to-one computing a success | eSchool News - 0 views

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  • the trend among schools was to let students bring their own devices. “We’re seeing BYOD taking off in schools,”
  • “I certainly think there is a lot of conversation around BYOD … but these introduce challenges as well.” He explained: “I think you need to define the common technology needs and goals and determine if BYOD can meet those needs.”
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