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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets – From Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

EdTechTeacher

Over the past century, radio, television, video cassette recorders, desktop computers, laptop computers, handheld devices, tablets, and cell phones have all been heralded as potentially transformative classroom tools (Cuban, 1986, 2003). To make the most of the investment in tablet computers, school leaders need to do three things.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

Mobile technologies have changed over the years: from the early PDAs, Blackberrys and feature phones with texting capability and cameras, to tablets and eReaders to the ubiquitous smartphones of today. ANDERSON, T (2003). References: Brooks, D.C. ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2016. Cochrane, T.,

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Amplify’s Been Quiet. Here’s Where CEO Larry Berger Says It’s Going in 2018

Edsurge

It was bought in 2010 by News Corporation, which invested more than $1 billion into the company and rebranded it as Amplify. And that’s the thing we started doing back in 2003, which has grown and evolved. We were talking about tablets, games, books and other kinds of services.

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What Kids Need for Optimal Health and School Engagement

MindShift

For all ages, research suggests that play—especially when it is freely chosen, unstructured, and kid-directed—is linked to a wide variety of positive outcomes including increased cognitive skills, physical health, self-regulation, language abilities, and social skills (Alliance for Childhood, 2010; Barker et al., Courtesy of Denise Pope.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

And if for some reason you need more ideas than what’s here—or if you’re just feeling nostalgic, as is befitting this time of year—take a look at our lists from 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , and 2009. Wow, we’ve been at this for a long time! Board Games.

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. The Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that CIPA does not violate the Constitution. Now that schools are increasingly providing students with laptops or tablets, filtering software often happens at the device-level, not simply at the school network level.

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