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Likewise, it is up to learning managers to determine when to ask students and teachers to turn their devices off; that is, to unplug so we can talk, think, and collaborate face to face. On/Off. It's balanced. It's healthy.

The fact that their technology is so invisible to them is their Achilles Heel. Because they don't see it, they don't think to question it.

For instance, in the Maine math study, it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training.

one-to-one laptop programs may simply amplify what’s already occurring — for better or worse,

As Mr. Share says in the signature file at the bottom of every e-mail he sends: “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”

Except halfway through the piece, Randy Yerrick — an associate dean of educational tech at the University of Buffalo — makes the take-away point: The chief reason to use high-tech tools is when you want to teach in a fashion that has “no good digital equivalent”. Or to put it another way, only use computers in situations where you want to do something that can’t be done without them.

3) Dialogue. Computers also let teachers and students have dialogues that aren’t easily possible in regular face-to-face formats.

What can computers teach that textbooks and paper can’t?

Blended learning is about creating meaningful learning experiences that leverage advantages of face-to-face experiences with advantages of digital interactions.

There is a tendency for faculty to require students to do more work in a blended course than they normally would complete in a traditional face-to-face course. What are you going to do to ensure that you have not created a course and one-half? How will you evaluate the student workload (and your own) as compared to a traditional class?

As with learning to read, swim or play good football children will be much more effective social networkers with support, guidance and help than without

We need to educate young people to understand that it is wrong to write anything on a social networking site which you wouldn’t say to someone’s face

Second, Twitter and Facebook are, as has been well publicised, a groomer’s dream.

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. 

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.

With the huge potential that Information and communication technology has to offer for teaching and learning also comes a matching potential for distraction, illicit and inappropriate activity, and poor judgement.

The teacher holds a cornerstone role in the development of understanding, the appreciation of culture and diversity, and the formation of the moral and ethical basis that, like the cornerstone of a building, provides a strong and stable foundation for life in both the real and virtual world they co-inhabit.

The most salient lessons are not learned by avoidance but by facing you action, its impact, and the consequences.

1-to-1 Essentials offers the guidance you need in order to proactively, rather than reactively, address issues that schools commonly face when going 1-to-1

"Paperbacks are surely still selling at sky-high rates, but the appeal of having a 'stack' of books crammed into one, slim device is certainly winning over customers."