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anonymous on 10 Sep 14About HALF of all students in grades 3-5 have access to a tablet!
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Eighty percent of students in grades 9-12, 65 percent of those in grades 6-8, 45 percent of grades 3-5 students
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A report released earlier this year confirms the trend, which seems now to be less of a trend and more of a permanent feature in schools.
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the majority (77 percent) of families have at least one smartphone at home, and 46 percent have at least one tablet.
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School and district administrators say that mobile technology, including tablets (41 percent), one-to-one programs (28 percent), mobile apps (22 percent), and BYOD (22 percent) have had a significant impact on teaching and learning,
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South Korea trains teachers in digital learning and has broadband connectivity in all of its schools. Additionally, South Korea plans to phase out printed textbooks in the next two years. Turkey has plans to distribute 10 million tablets to students by 2015, and Thailand’s government has similar aims, with plans to supply 13 million mobile devices to students by 2015