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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. Tablets, laptops, and Chromebooks have become as commonplace as notebooks, enabling students to access a vast reservoir of information and educational resources at their fingertips. link] Berger et al.

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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).

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Smartphone Learning

IT Bill

Considering that community college students oftentimes have access to fewer resources, it seems at first that this would be counter-intuitive. However, when you consider that the smartphone may be the main source of Internet access, it begins to make more sense. ANDERSON, T (2003). Undergraduate Smartphone Ownership. Bateman, R.

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. And 84 percent of teenagers now have their own phones, immersing themselves in a rich and complex world of experiences that adults sometimes need a lot of decoding to understand.

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Technology Alone is not a Silver Bullet for School Improvement.

EdTechSandyK

They have implemented a 1:1 laptop program for students which due to its success in improving student achievement has become a model that is being looked at by schools across the nation. I have been here since 2003 and I am "digital native" but I have taught here both before and after the laptops. I am a teacher in MGSD.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment.

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Technology’s Impact on Student Learning: Insights from the Speak Up 2022 Congressional Briefing

edWeb.net

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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