After viewing Pattie Maes’ TED presentation it really is easy to be drawn into the interesting new ideas that she and her student have created. However, taking an EVA approach from the angle of a school principal, her idea really doesn’t seem to uncomplicate things, which I believe is the original goal of her invention. […]
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Donna Forward
After reading about the buyers, end users and learners, I really like the image that was portrayed to compare the three: Buyers (customers) “open their wallets”, End Users (teachers) “open the packages” and the Learners (students) “open their minds”. It really got me thinking…who are the true buyers in my school district? Also, the best […]
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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 […]
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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.