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Immersive, interactive, and engaging, textbooks on iPad offer an experience that will capture students' imaginations and take learning to a whole new level.

For hundreds of years, textbooks have put a world of knowledge in the hands of students. But while the way people learn has changed dramatically, the traditional textbook has stayed the same.

Then along comes the iPad – a potential game changer being driven into schools by the students themselves. Scratch, an amazing programming environment for kids (and grownups) developed by Mitch Resnick’s group at the MIT Medialab, was REMOVED from the iTunes store. And now, the offerings of the old guard publishers will be featured. The message is clear – “school is fine the way it has always been – now buy some new toys that require no changes in the system at all.”

This didn’t happen by accident. Careful thought went into Apple’s perspective on how tablets should be used by children. Today they decided that the iPad should be a costly version of the Amazon Kindle Fire. While this may be a lucrative move on Apple’s part, it destroys any semblance of Apple caring one whit about real learning. It is as if Dewey, Piaget, Papert and other giants in the field had never been born.

The assumption is that free open-source material on the web is equivalent to textbooks and that is probably true. They are both equally badly written.

They use their skill and craft to present information through the lens of singular intellects, making the nonfiction genre an eye-opening experience in human communication.

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like "1984."

תוויות: ספרי לימוד, iPad

The Volkswagen decision reflects growing evidence of stress-related burnout tied to employees’ inability to separate their working and private lives now that developed societies live in a 24/7 paroxysm of connection.

the company had to balance the benefits of round-the-clock access to staff with protecting their private lives

Atos’s 80,000 employees were receiving an average of 100 internal e-mails a day of which only 15 percent were of any use.

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, הסח הדעת, שיעורי בית

By 1972 when I came to Stanford as a graduate student, the LGI was being used as a large lecture hall for classes from other departments. The now-disconnected keypads were toys that bored students played with during lectures. The pull-down screen was used for overheads and occasional films. The fixed position cameras purchased in the late 1960s were already beyond repair and obsolete.

... as I listened, my fingers crept over to the “student responder” and I began to click the keys. “Student responders” and “clickers” merged in my mind.

תוויות: הוראה, הרצאות

הצעת החוק נועדה לתת מענה לשנים הקרובות, שבמהלכן מהפכת המחשוב של משרד החינוך עדיין לא תגיע לכל בתי הספר.

תוויות: דיגיטאליות, ספרי לימוד, שימוש בבתי ספר

Adaptive testing is really about personalizing the knowledge of the student. It is about understanding the individual student. If we can understand enough individual students and aggregate the data, then a school can create a plan to help those students progress and move ahead.

Computer-assisted instruction or drill and practice software, apparently now dressed-up as the fancy-sounding “adaptive learning” has been the holy grail of those wishing to reduce education costs and shortcut education for the past half century.

Any teacher who thinks he can be replaced by a computer, probably should be. Yet, this handful of magic beans promising that computers can “teach” where humans have failed is folly folks have unwisely invested their faith in for decades.

It is one thing to let your kid play with such software on a long car trip via 99 cent iPad apps, but the same misguided nonsense is being packaged as adaptive learning systems, integrated learning systems, “School of One” or other similar junk that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per school.

תוויות: פני החינוך