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Sarah Hodgson

Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?| The Committed S... - 0 views

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  • Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work?
  • t 62 percent of schools allow cell phones to be used on school grounds, though not in classrooms
  • interested in developing mobile learning programs as fast as possible,”
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  • Classroom uses for iPads and cell phones are vast and varied. Some schools are replacing print books for apps that feature videos and interactive quizzes. Kindergarteners are learning to read using an iPad app. Teachers are using tablets to monitor student progress on “dashboards” that show moment-by-moment test scores. Others are using cell phones to take instant polls in class to gauge student comprehension. And more students are using smartphones, many of which have stronger processing power than their schools’ desktop computers, for instant fact-finding, calculating, mapping, and note-taking.
  • Will this become just another passing craze in the long line of fads that have swung through schools and classes in past years? What criteria are being used to gauge a successful mobile learning program?
  • Even with the latest available technology, schools are still using old delivery tactics – like technology carts – taking iPads from classroom to classroom in schools that can’t provide a take-home device for every student. But that’s exactly the kind of short-term thinking that drives Soloway mad.
  • “We are using new technology to implement old pedagogy,” he said. “We are not exploiting the affordances of the new technology to give kids new kinds of learn-by-doing activities. Flash card programs for the iPad are too numerous to count. What a waste!”
  • Sarah Hodgson on 01 May 12
     
    "(student) engagement always goes up when technology is used... to say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing". Are iPads just a craze? Is there a danger that we are using new technology to implement old pedagogy? 
John Turner

Why most K-12 schools aren't ready for the iPad revolution | VentureBeat - 0 views

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  • John Turner on 13 Apr 13
     
    "1. Teaching requires planning. 2. Consider where we're spending our education dollars. 3. The iPad is primarily a consumption device. 4. Our students should be mobile multilingual."
Aaron Metz

Point/Counterpoint: Will the iPad Revolutionize Education? - 0 views

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shared by Aaron Metz on 15 May 11 - No Cached
  • The iPad also allows teachers to experiment with technology with ease. During the summer of 2010, we selected 25 faculty to be iPad Innovators. The teachers received an iPad for the summer and a challenge to redesign their curriculum with whatever apps they wanted. For less than $200, our faculty developed innovative and creative learning activities for their classes using the tablet. Occam's razor suggests that this type of success would not have been possible or immediate with a substantive investment in subject-specific software.
  • By providing our faculty with the tools and the opportunity to experiment, we have been able to develop and implement learning activities that allow students to achieve the level of "create" at the peak of Bloom's Taxonomy. And scaling new heights is really what revolutions are all about.
  • Aaron Metz on 15 May 11
     
    An experience from Marymount School in New York.  
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