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Rival Philosophies, Both Compelling - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Is there an app for improving America’s educational system? Will watching a PowerPoint presentation about the nation’s educational challenge help to understand the opportunities and difficulties facing the country?
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Two college dropouts, Steve Jobs (Reed College) and Bill Gates (Harvard University) have articulated theories about education. And their viewpoints are as different as are their companies (Apple and Microsoft, respectively), presenting a contrast in style and philosophy.
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Gates hopes to analyze and adjust the education system in order to produce a more efficient and effective learning environment.
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Jobs is focused more on individual learning and less on systemic education. Technology is his way to get a well-integrated mind flowing in multiple directions. His learning philosophy gives each person the ability to chart his own course.
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Gates’ recent speech to the nation’s governors stressed assessment, measuring outcomes and tracking students’ progress. Technology and benchmarking are joined at the hip
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Jobs’ approach allows for individual experimentation to find a unique solution to each person’s quest. It is the symbol of intellectual multi-tasking. This is a more experimental, integrated search for a holistic view of the universe, one that has multiple access points. Each student becomes his or her own teacher.
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Gates is studying the science of education. Jobs is creating the art of learning. I’m sure there is an app for teaching arithmetic by watching the heavens and counting the stars
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K-5 iPad Apps for Understanding: Part Two of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy | Edutopia - 0 views

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Hottest Apps used by Apple Distinguished Educators - 0 views

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A Call for More Engineers in Education | MindShift - 0 views

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Jay Blackman on 25 Apr 11

Not sure if I agree with all of this but it could be interesting from an app angle...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not sure if I agree with all of this but it could be interesting from an app angle...</div>

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TeachPaperless: IEP Recommendation: Mobile Access - 0 views

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shared by J B on 26 May 11 - No Cached

mobile tech is the single best vehicle for addressing the confidence and practical needs of many of our kids with learning differences
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I don't mean to say that the tech itself is the 'difference', what I am trying to say is that the tech -- and especially the personalized and always-on facet of mobile tech -- will provide the connection to the tools, the teachers, and the interventions that will make the difference in a way both unique and also requiring a re-thinking in terms of how we offer relevant services to students with learning differences.
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we need to explain to developers what we and our students need from them
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Even better, we should be calling for Ed Schools to provide instruction in app making and digital design so that we -- the teachers -- have the capacity to program our own teaching.
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we need to push now for an end to the access issues facing all of our schools
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Let's make districts come to the realization that mobile devices and mobile access are the point-of-entry for learning right now. Let's put state funded devices in the hands of kids who need them and let all kids bring their own INTELLECTUAL EMPOWERMENT DEVICES to class.
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