The iPad in the EFL Classroom
Digg DiggWith the announcement of the iPad 2 from Apple, it is expected that the next generation of computing is here. Tablet computing has become so popular that many people carry Kindles, iPads as well as the other tablets with them whilst on the go. I recently purchased an iPad and have used it in [...]
5 April 2011
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New grant program seeks solutions to toughest classroom challenges
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has partnered with the nation’s largest teachers union and its charitable foundation to launch a grant program encouraging public school educators to identify and solve K-12 education’s most pressing classroom challenges. The new “Challenge to Innovate” (C2i) program leverages ED’s Open Innovation Portal to solicit ideas in a process known [...]
11 September 2010
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Home vs School: The best 21st Century Learning Environment
I was thinking about a comment I heard on Rocketboom from an Intel employee discussing the release of their classmatePC designed for the classroom. His comment was something to the effect that since students have broadband and computers at home, they are set back 20 years when they enter the classroom. (I am paraphrasing). This is [...]
23 July 2010
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Catch the ELearning Train – From Classroom to ERoom
Have you heard the new buzz word – eLearning? It has come to the forefront in the last couple of years. But, what does it really mean? ELearning is a method of instruction where the teacher and student are located in different locations or where there is a time gap between the two, but by [...]
5 July 2010
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