Digg DiggKids make up a large portion of the ebook audience. Very often when a parent buys a new device–whether a tablet, smartphone, or ereader–the previous device gets turned over to the kids. As a result, the amount of electronic children’s offerings available is growing, both revamped classics as well as new titles designed as [...]
17 February 2012
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Cathedral Catholic High School plans to put iPads in the hands of every student and teacher next fall, becoming the first school in the region to do so. Cathedral’s decision to embrace digital elearning began five years ago when officials initially looked into acquiring notebook computers for students. The school shifted its focus to Apple [...]
15 February 2012
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Much like everything else that worries the enhancement of world and development of lifestyle and understanding, the area of education has certainly seen several advancements and improvements with regards to how to better train a student, make better the deliverance of the correct knowledge, and assist in better conception and understanding of knowledge application. There [...]
14 February 2012
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Today is Digital eLearning Day, a national promotional effort by the Alliance for Excellence in Education to call attention to using technology in schools. More than 10,000 teachers and 1.5 million students have signed up in support to “celebrate innovative teachers and highlight instructional practices that strengthen teaching and personalize learning for all students,” according [...]
2 February 2012
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The New York Times has been covering technology’s role in education since the paper first began publishing — from an 1872 editorial questioning whether to teach science or the classics to boys of “ordinary abilities,” (PDF) to Sputnik-era pieces demanding more technical education for American schoolchildren (PDF) to today, when you can hardly open, or [...]
31 January 2012
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As Apple pushes out its new education products, new information about whether using the iPad gives students an advantage over using print books is starting to surface. Results from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s year-long study comparing students using the publisher’s iPad algebra app are in from Amelia Earhart school in Riverside, Calif., and it’s largely positive, according to the company. [...]
24 January 2012
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It’s not enough to take a traditional K-12 classroom and fill it with technology. The smart classroom requires a more methodic approach that factors in the design of the basic shell, the teacher’s space, and the students’ independent and collaborative work areas. Schools that ignore this step, said Issac Herskowitz, director of New York-based Touro College’sinstructional [...]
19 January 2012
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The population of homeschoolers in the United States continues to grow according to new research and the report,2.04 Million Homeschool Students in the United States in 2010, recently published by the National Home Education Research Institute. By their calculations, the growth rate from 2007 to the present has been 8.3% per year. Because some states [...]
16 January 2012
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The article talks about flipped classroom, flipped model, flipped learning model. It is of help for those who want to learn about what is elearning, online learning, and flipped learning, etc all about. Learning in the flipped classroom is something that happens if the learner and / or teacher go against the traditional chalk and [...]
12 January 2012
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The Diffusion Simulation Game is a game developed by Indiana University in which players explore strategies that result in the adoption of innovation in a fictitious junior high. The goal is to get stakeholders (the school principal, teachers, and support staff) to adopt peer tutoring. As a player, you can decide whether to gather information, talk to [...]
10 January 2012
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