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Parents want schools to take better advantage of mobile

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 11:56am

A new survey from the Learning First Alliance and Grunwald Associates suggests that parents whose children are required to use portable or mobile devices in school are more likely to see the educational value in such devices as a result of their first-hand experience.

Learning First Alliance

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Big District Wi-Fi Technology for Small and Medium-Sized Districts

Custom Publishing

Even small districts with limited budgets and staff can be high tech with the latest Wi-Fi technology

District Administration Custom Publishing Group

District Administration, April 2013

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BYOD

cyber learning

network infrastructure

mobile

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ASCD Introduces New Conference App, Offers Support for First-Time Attendees

Submitted by Alison DeNisco on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 2:29pm

Attendees at ASCD's 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibit Show, held March 16–18, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., will be able to improve their conference and professional development experience by downloading a new ASCD app that puts important conference information at their fingertips.

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A Blueprint for Setting Up a Winning Texting Strategy

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 4:24pm

Located on the North Carolina border in eastern Tennessee, the rural Blount County school system, which has 20,000 students and four major high schools, was looking for a better way to get information about specific safety issues to its socioeconomically diverse population. Here's their success story.

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Barre School Technology Plan Would be Expensive

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:36pm

The price of pursuing a five-year plan that would eventually put a personal computing device in the hands of every student at Barre City Elementary and Middle School accounts for nearly $300,000 of a budget increase that — at least for the moment — is still sitting at roughly $1.4 million.

Times Argus

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A Tablet in Every L.A. Student's Backpack?

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 11:39am

Superintendent Deasy wants to give each L.A. Unified student a high-tech device. That would mean 700,000 pieces of digital equipment costing about $450 million, not counting more than $200 million (and possibly double that) to update the campus' wireless Internet service. But his plan needs work.

Deasy's request for a first-phase infusion of $17.4 million in school bond money fell short by one vote.The vote was only advisory, and the school board could still approve the expenditure, but for now Deasy's office says he has no plans to bring it up again, and that's a good idea.

Los Angeles Times

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America’s School Children Need to Practice Democracy and Freedom 24/7

Going Mobile

And it requires a cellular internet connection.

Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway

District Administration, Dec 2012

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mobile

cellphones

technology

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Smartphones Shift STEM Learning to the Field

CIO News

Alison DeNisco

District Administration, Dec 2012

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technology

mobile

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McGraw Hill Exec: iPad Mini May not be Best for Education

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 4:22pm

Amid the unveiled alongside the iPad Mini at an event on Tuesday, CEO Tim Cook also brought up Apple’s leading role in education, highlighting the fact that the older full-size iPad had already been adopted by 2,500 classrooms around the U.S. in the two and a half years since it was first introduced.

Talking Points Memo

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iPads (and tablets) in K12: When Will We Get it Together?

Submitted by Lynn Russo Whylly on Fri, 10/19/2012 - 12:07pm

An interview with John Martellaro over at The Mac Observer, an Apple focused e-zine, has Christopher Dawson of ZDnet Education thinking ... why can't we get this right?

ZDnet