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10 years after laptops come to Maine schools, educators say technology levels playing f... - 0 views

  • Laptops make learning and schoolwork more interesting, students and teachers said.
  • Writing test scores have improved
  • Freeport math skills have jumped
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  • Laptop critics, including some parents, complain that they can be a distraction from learning: Students spend too much time on social-networking sites, including Facebook and Skype. Overall, educators say the laptops have done what King promised: level the playing field of access to technology and help students become technology-literate.
  • It was difficult, but after a couple of months he learned to balance work and play, he said.
Phil Taylor

More powerful pencils: 1:1 Laptop Programs and 21st century learning « 21k12 - 2 views

  • it is not because they had a 1-1 program in itself that made them so, but because they had a classroom culture of student inquiry, of research, collaboration, and on-line publishing, all of which were well supported by the laptops in students’ hands.
  •   “Laptop computers [would not be] technological tools; rather, [they would be] cognitive tools that are holistically integrated into the teaching and learning processes of their school.”
  • One of the best sections of this article speaks right to this, as it advocates schools to bring the students to the table: But it’s not just teachers who experts say must be involved in the 1-to-1 planning process—students should be, too.
Phil Taylor

edulicious - edulicious - Tablets or Laptops? Ask the Right Questions. - 0 views

  • I love my iPad as a learning device, I think the only answer right now is the laptop (at least for kids older than 3rd grade).
  • Kids may already have their own mobile devices, so open up BYOD.  Why buy them things they might already have?
Phil Taylor

Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way? : NPR Ed : NPR - 0 views

  • Stommel, who's been engaged in many debates over laptop bans on Twitter, calls the issue "weirdly divisive" but also, in the end, "a red herring." Instead of an "authoritarian approach," he suggests a conversation.
Phil Taylor

Learning with an iPad - Winnipeg Free Press - 0 views

  • The iPad "certainly doesn't do everything a desktop or laptop computer does," Weston acknowledged. "It's not about the device, it's about the learning."
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    "The iPad "certainly doesn't do everything a desktop or laptop computer does," Weston acknowledged. "It's not about the device, it's about the learning.""
Phil Taylor

Can the iPad Really Replace Your Laptop? - 0 views

  • At the end of the day, the iPad offers a remarkable level of efficiency and integration for businesspeople who are particularly sensitive to workflow challenges or spend most of their time on the go. Heavy duty programs and major memory hogs have no place on a tablet, and you’re simply not going to find those on the iPad anytime soon.
Phil Taylor

What to do about laptops in lectures? - Daniel Willingham - 0 views

  • How about using our scarce and precious face-to-face time with students to have them DO something with their digital technologies
Phil Taylor

1:1 Laptops in the Classroom-Where Are We Now? - 1 views

  • The article asserts that indeed, the success of a 1:1 laptop program rests in the preparation and teaching strategies of the teacher in the classroom,
  • or a program to work, teacher professional development and preparation, well in advance, is essential
Phil Taylor

The New Digital Citizens - 2 views

  • successful teachers are like Emily Vail: the ones who don’t revolutionize their pedagogical methods overnight
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    " 2013 marks the tenth anniversary of MLTI's one-to-one laptop initiative"
Phil Taylor

One-to-One Laptop Initiatives Boost Student Scores, Researchers Find - Digital Educatio... - 0 views

  • the goal is to enable teachers and software to deliver more personalized content to students, to boost students' technology skills, and to empower children to do more complex and creative work.
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