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The Cost of Technology | - 0 views

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    "A trip down memory lane as we compare some of our favorite electronics to those of yesteryear."
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How to Choose the Right Tablet for Your School - 0 views

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  • "When you talk about the choice between Android and iOS, that's a big decision. But the bigger decision is, 'Are we going to change our whole attitude to how we're delivering the lessons to the students?'"
  • "If you have a really slow wireless connection, and you're going to have to solely rely on apps, the amount of educational apps available for the iPad far outnumber what's available for Android and the quality of them," Starr said. But if you have a fast connection and want to use online content at no cost, remember that the majority of that content is based on Flash
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One-to-One or BYOD? Districts Explain Thinking Behind Student Computing Initiatives | E... - 0 views

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  • the district shelved the idea when it became apparent that students preferred using their personal mobile devices and that the cost of buying and ­refreshing ­notebooks every three to four years would be ­prohibitive
  • surveyed the 155 eighth-graders ­participating in the pilot, they learned something ­interesting: Although students loved the idea of having their own computer to do their homework, 52 percent of them were using their personal computers rather than those issued by the school
  • IT department beefed up the wireless network in its two middle schools and the high school and standardized on a set of cloud-based applications
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  • Google Apps' ­productivity and collaboration tools, and connect to the Moodle course management system, where they can access ­reading materials and other course ­content and participate in discussion forums and live chats.
  • To implement BYOD successfully, Gartner Research Director Bill Rust says every school must do the following:
  • offers five blended high school courses in English and health education
  • Professional development also is helping educators learn new teaching techniques that are technology-centric
  • Schools that are embracing BYOD are working to ­incorporate technology into their curriculum
  • Early BYOD Adopters Share Lessons Learned
  • Professional development is important. Hanover's educational technology staff holds a training session every Tuesday, Fry says. The district also built a wiki to educate teachers about using technology in the classroom.
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Phil Taylor

Apple Pushes To Put Interactive Textbooks On iPads : NPR - 0 views

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  • Major textbook publishers have been making electronic versions of their products for years, but until recently, there hasn't been any hardware suitable to display them.
  • Apple also released iBooks Author, a new tool meant to lure publishers into creating new content specifically for the iPad education user.
  • even if an iPad were to last for five years in the hands of students, the e-books plus the iPad would cost more than the hardback textbooks.
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  • the new app "a shot across the bow" of Blackboard Inc.
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The 21st Century Teacher - 1 views

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  • When students were succeeding in school with no technology, we were also living in a world with little technology, and preparing students for life in a world where technology wasn't a part of their daily lives.  
  • Technology is no substitute for an inspiring teacher. However, on-line materials are far more available. Twenty times more.
  • Because the students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.
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  • Instead of teaching (push), students can be given projects that require them to learn (pull) the necessary material themselves.
  • A vital skill in the new digital world is the ability to work collaboratively on projects with others who may not be physically close.
  • The worldview of the student can be expanded because of the zero cost of communicating with other people around the globe.
  • Students are, of course, all different.
  • To cash in this benefit, schools need to go paperless.
Phil Taylor

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 1 views

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  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
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The Connected Educator: It Begins with Collaboration | Edutopia - 0 views

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  • Collaboration in the past was limited at best, due to the costly restraints of time and space. Districts needed to pay for travel and provide time away from the job, which limited the amount of collaboration possible. This excluded a great number of educators who could not be replaced if absent from the classroom.
  • Technology has provided us with the ability to communicate, curate, collaborate, and (most importantly) create with any number of educators, globally, at any time, and at very little cost.
  • victims of its dated mindset: if it was good enough for me, it's good enough for the kids. The idea of collaboration requires a mindset of believing there is room to learn and grow. It is also a belief that we are smarter collectively than individually.
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Life-Long-Learners - 0 views

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  • one hears that important changes can be effected in education but it will cost money for a new lab of computers, for wireless access and faster routers, for iPads and other new devices. However, as readers explore “Why ___ Matters!”, you will be amazed that the suggested changes and ideas are more about “humanware” than hardware.
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The Pros & Cons of Cloud Backup: Why You Need a Complete Backup System - 0 views

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  • there are lots of great benefits to having your data backed up online. But there are also lots of benefits to having your data backed up locally, on an external hard drive. It’s cheap, backups and restores are fast and you maintain control over your data.
Phil Taylor

Social media users grapple with information overload - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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  • People are drowning in a deluge of data. Corporate users received about 110 messages a day in 2010, says market researcher Radicati Group. There are 110 million tweets a day, Twitter says. Researcher Basex has pegged business productivity losses due to the "cost of unnecessary interruptions" at $650 billion in 2007.
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Will the iPad revolutionize education? - ISTE Community - 0 views

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education ipad

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  • The iPad however, provides an alternative method by providing a lower cost of entry, while allowing for student-centered instruction where students are able to both create content and access information anywhere, anytime.  The key for revolutionizing education is having educators who embrace this technology to change how they teach to create a learning environment where students, not teachers, are the focus of the instruction.   
  • “Yeah it does all that and it’s a phone!”  Amidst a cacophony of reverent Oooh’s and Ahh’s, I unknowingly witnessed the birth of the Smart-Phone and the death knell of the PDA.  I bring this up because I recently was approached by someone who told me that our school should get rid of all PC’s and give everyone iPads.
  • but the tablet format could lead to changes in education.
Phil Taylor

New iPad Appeals More to Emotion Than Reason - State of the Art - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Now, the coming months will bring a blizzard of tablets that are meant to compete with the iPad
  • the shocker here, though, is that the iPad 2 actually costs less than its comparably equipped Android rivals, like the Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Phil Taylor

Using Images as a Powerful Gateway To Learning - iPads in Education - 0 views

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  • Most of us grew up in an age where knowledge and information were primarily conveyed in textual format. Think of the encyclopedias we used. Photos were used but largely as an enhancement to articles that were text-based. Worse, the high cost of full color printing meant that the images that were used were usually in black and white.
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