Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

When these “digital natives” show up in my classroom, they have played with iPads and their parents’ smartphones enough to know how to swipe, tap, squeeze, and shake, but they know none of the nuances required to morph the device from a toy to a productivity tool. Technology will replace me.

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Moodle Robotics Smartphone iPad 289

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

There is no box

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. I think things like Spheros, LittleBits, 3D Printers, Lego Robotics, Drones and their like are the modern day equivalent of the Computer Lab.

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Blended Learning Accessibility Robotics Assessment 79

There is no box

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As I’ve been an advocate for 1:1 in schools since 2009, I immediately drafted a response, one that I uncharacteristically then let sit for several months so I could stew on it a bit more. I think things like Spheros, LittleBits, 3D Printers, Lego Robotics, Drones and their like are the modern day equivalent of the Computer Lab.

Blended Learning 58

Blended Learning Accessibility Robotics Assessment 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Apple : “Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017,” Edsurge reported in August. Students will receive iPads. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Half of those, the firm said, would be iPads. Apple sold just 50 million iPads. 2009 – the phones in their pockets. I don’t believe that robots will take, let alone need take, all our jobs. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. 2007 – the phones in their pockets.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace. The same was true at the affluent, predominantly white Barrington Middle School, which will soon move into a $68 million building fitted with a robotics lab. The George W.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 96