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BOYNTON BEACH — Each year more than 2,500 educators attend the annual School District of Palm Beach County’s Technology Conference. This year’s conference is set for Monday, March 26 at Santaluces Community High School in Boynton Beach. The theme is, “We Have an App for That: Innovative Teachers.” Teachers and administrators from other public and [...]

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By Patrick May It’s midmorning and the faces of the students in Tim Wesmiller’s religious studies class are bathed in the baby-blue glow of their iPad screens. Instead of sitting in rigid rows of desks staring at a blackboard, as they would in a typical classroom, kids huddle in groups to brainstorm and blog about [...]

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THIS week a Torfaen secondary school went live with laptops and a contemporary learning management system as part of a £14 million digital learning project. Abersychan Secondary School along with Monmouth Comprehensive School in Monmouthshire were the first schools to pilot the learning management system and receive laptops for all pupils aged 14 to 16. [...]

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A robot walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a screwdriver.” A bad joke, indeed. But even less funny if the robot says “Give me what’s in your cash register.” The fictional theme of robots turning against humans is older than the word itself, which first appeared in the title of Karel Čapek’s 1920 [...]

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Fifty MBA graduate students (two sections) in a very traditional research methods course had the option to use hyperlinks, PDF files, Doc files, YouTube videos and other topical resources to supplement and augment their classroom experience. The purpose of the study was to determine if the use of electronic media and digital media, otherwise referred [...]

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Teachers have tough jobs — lots of kids and lots of responsibility — and budget cuts are making things worse. They have administrators telling them to boost achievement and personalize learning, but most of them are on their own without tools. But that is beginning to change as schools are beginning to blend traditional teaching [...]

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With 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 a [...]

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Learning Circuits recently polled readers on how they’re using e-learning in their organizations. Here’s what they had to say. How does your company use e-learning? (check all that apply) Customer service training 34.2% Enterprise transformations 12.7% External customers/clients 20.3% General business skills (leadership, sexual harassment, etc.) 30.4% IT (end user/desktop applications) 39.2% IT (network.infrastructure) 12.7% [...]

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Education is changing, and teachers need to change with it. This article explores the impact of using wireless and mobile technologies in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning, and it explores the hardware behind this new mobile learning revolution. 21st Century Learning The potential of wireless and mobile technology to enhance teaching and learning [...]