This article talks about how Del is tryi…
This article talks about how Del is trying to find solutions for schools that can support their learning platforms of choice and the things that they would like to do with educational technology.
When I took ETEC 500, I did a paper on using ipods in the classroom to help my French Immersion students improve their oral French. Much of the research in my literature review revealed that one of the major problems with the many companies that are producing applications and programs for handheld devices is that there are so many different platforms out there. Eventually, they will need to find a common platform that will work for everyone around the world. The key will be for the companies to work together, which may not be an easy task.
With their work in the schools, Del is trying to created learning platforms that will cater especially to each individual student. Their goal is improve teaching, learning and student achievement. Otherwise, experts believe that without an effective learning platform, there will be a lot of expensive “typewriters” in the schools.
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Donna Forward 1:07 pm on May 20, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
These 2011 Top Ten Ed Tech Trends article is very useful for educators as well as learning tech specialists and ventures since Dell is predicting that this will be the year of the platform. This is a very important goal for teachers and tech people alike since everyone will be able to be on the same page when it comes to which hardware and applications to use.
Future reports on this topic would be very beneficial since many schools are adapting the BYOD theme and it will be essential that schools, as well as tech specialists and venturers, be offered a common platform for all of the different applications that teachers and companies want to use. If there is no common platform, it will be a nightmare to try to work the system out and make everyone happy.