competitors will now face a new iteration of the iPad, one that's faster, smaller, and lighter than the model introduced a year ago--all while retaining the $499 entry price that has proven all but impossible for Apple's competitors to match.
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The Advantages of Blended Learning in the Classroom | What'sMovingIndia - 0 views
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Before making the flight crew time clerk resume, you have to know about the duties and responsibilities of a person in such a post, especially if you are a fresher. Viewing a sample resume for the said post will also be an added advantage.
Flipping the classroom - Educational Technology for School Leaders - 0 views
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"There is a lot of controversy and passion surrounding the flipped classroom. Advocates of flipping point to many advantages including students learning at their own pace, availability of online lessons and time for real work in the classroom. Opponents of flipping point to holes including student access to internet"
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The cosmetics industry has the advantage of being unaffected even under economic uncertainty. If you want to establish yourself in this glamor industry, follow the top 5 effective tips when creating the makeup artist resume.
Apple iPad 2 family Review - PCWorld - 0 views
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company is offering 18 different versions of the iPad 2
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original iPad came in six different variations
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Not Yet Blended Learning - David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts - 0 views
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Blended learning is about creating meaningful learning experiences that leverage advantages of face-to-face experiences with advantages of digital interactions.
The Bigger You Are, The More You Should Connect - 0 views
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As I think about how big schools and districts can be, we have to less “automation” and more “personalization”. Technology can either dehumanize or humanize; it depends how we use it. The “social” is really the most important part of “social media” and we need to take advantage to not only share what we are learning, but to build connections in new ways.
How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System - Joel Rose - Busi... - 0 views
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Given the enormous impact that technology has had on nearly every other aspect of our society, how can that be?
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Today our collective vision for education is broader, our nation is more complex and diverse, and our technical capabilities are more powerful. But we continue to assume the factory-model classroom and its rigid bell schedules, credit requirements, age-based grade levels, and physical specifications when we talk about school reform.
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our focus should primarily be to design new classroom models that take advantage of what these tools can do.
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Amidst a Mobile Revolution in Schools, Will Old Teaching Tactics Work? | MindShift - 0 views
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unless traditional teaching practices morph to adapt and fully take advantage of what mobile devices can afford, some fear the promise will go the way of all the technology collecting dust in the corner of the classroom. Worse, it might eventually lead to what everyone unequivocally dreads: the mechanization of teaching.
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“Right now, the iPad craze is using the same content on a different device. Schools must change the pedagogy.”
iPads in Class | Scholastic.com - 2 views
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Roslyn's rush of attention obscures how the district has undertaken this pilot systematically. "We've been studying 1:1 programs and what's made them successful," says Edward Salina Jr., assistant superintendent for human resources and administration. Both he and Brenner have closely aligned themselves with this project, including overseeing teacher professional development and seemingly small details such as consulting with students about the best iPad covers to buy.
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Jody Bowie, a high school physics and earth science teacher at Putnam City High School in Northwest, Oklahoma, uses this program to push his students to write their own textbook. He uses an iPad in the classroom, taking advantage of the long battery life and his ability to import Google documents into the program for maximum flexibility.
Editorial: The iPad and Education, A Truly Revolutionary Concept | TripTronicTech - 2 views
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The fact that you can hold it up to your face makes a tablet the best device available for reading, web browsing and consuming media. It has all of the functions of a PC in a smaller package.
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The ability for students to send their work to their personal email accounts or cloud drives, just like on a school computer, is another huge advantage.
Broadband, Social Networks, and Mobility Have Spawned a New Kind of Learner -- THE Journal - 2 views
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the near ubiquity of mobile computing is producing a fundamentally new kind of learner, one that is self-directed, better equipped to capture information, more reliant on feedback from peers, more inclined to collaborate, and more oriented toward being their own "nodes of production."
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"We've all got audiences now on Twitter and Facebook," Rainie said. "Everybody can be a publisher and broadcaster; students in particular are taking advantage of tha
How To Use Technology To Increase Student Achievement Is Not a Mystery! -- THE Journal - 0 views
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redesigning the curriculum to take advantage of the affordances of the 1-to-1 mobile devices that were being used. The technology was not bolted onto an existing curriculum
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Most importantly, they developed into a community of practice — a professional group of educators who work with each other, who support each other
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Adding technology to direct-instruction, paper-and-pencil-based pedagogy, will have little impact
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ASCD Express 5.18 - Cell Phones Allow Anytime Learning - 0 views
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why now, more than ever, schools are taking advantage of the tools already in students' hands to integrate education technology.