Education Elements

JULY 19, 2017

Yuma Elementary School District ONE began the journey of Personalized Learning over two years ago and we went all in --17 schools and 9000 students all at once. At the start of school, iPads were distributed to all students and 490 teachers -- many staff and students had never even held an iPad prior to the distribution.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

There was a catch, however: school leaders had to commit to implementing personalized learning models as a prerequisite to receiving free laptops and iPads. District leaders even went so far as to dub the hardware “personalized learning devices.” “At 8 points, respectively, between 2015 and 2016.

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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. blended learning).

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