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UK policy direction: "Is the government's attitude to computer technology in schools taking us back to a "dark age" of chalk-and-talk?"

But perhaps the rarest thing about Digi-Comp is the combination of hands-on and minds-on fun it affords. It definitely still has things to teach*, like Boolean logic and problem-solving... and it's rewarding to build and use. That's why Minds-On Toys decided to reintroduce it in an affordable kit format, with a thorough and professional revamp of the original documentation.

Just ordered myself one of these for christmas, an elastic-band powered computer that comes as a DIY kit. I can hardly wait to turn up.

Webslides allows users to easily and instanly convert their bookmarks and feeds and present them as live web pages in an interactive slideshow format complete with the full content pages, links, and comments. It enables a new way to easily create and share unique presentations based on web content and user annotations.

"Everyone is so excited about tethering the iPad 2 to a projector, admittedly very cool, that we have missed something else at least as good if not even better! Go all the way: make the iPad 1 or 2 into a complete interactive whiteboard solution! If you already own an iPad, computer, and projector, this can be done for less than the cost of Apple's new Digital AV Adapter for the iPad 2. Ok, full disclosure: this solution only costs 2 cents less than the adapter. But for tethering with the Digital AV Adapter, you also have to purchase an HDMI to VGA cable too!"

Your Android smartphone has all the photographic and processing power you'll need to snap up those docs and get them into the cloud where they belong.

"Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks books into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use."

Nice interactive app that schools with iPads should consider exploring as a replacement for traditional textbooks.

Platform for interactive books. Conversion of books to iPad. Add video and QA to content. Purchase chapters or textbook. McGraw Hill platform.

Interesting piece by Danah Boyd challenging the belief that we should track our children and wall their digital wall.

Am interested in whether you feel that there is anything clearly missing from the survey Tony. I tried to keep it short so that people would actually complete it. My fear was that if you add questions like 'why do you think 1:1 is important' as Richard Olsen has suggested then people would start turning off :/

Here is my post in regards to the results from the survey: http://readingwritingresponding.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/11-devices-in-schools-reflection.html

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