What’s all the fuss about 1-to-1 (one-to-one learning)?

Why are schools going to lengths to purchase individual devices for students? How can a 1-to-1 learning program benefit schools? Is it worth the cost or how can the cost be avoided? These are some important questions when considering a 1-to-1 learning program for your school.

1-to-1 represents a 21st century classroom. 1-to-1 is about personalized learning. It’s about convenience, communication, and control. For digital natives, it’s about meeting the needs and expectations of a generation who take technology for granted. When students have their own devices, they can more easily use technology for research, communication, data collection, content production, productivity, and entertainment – everything that most adults use in their daily professional and personal lives – and that many students are accustomed to outside of school.Read more...

THE MASS PRINTED BOOK—The Mass Printed Book, 563, died prematurely of intense hyperbole yesterday. Beloved storytelling medium of the masses for generations, devoted giver of information, entertainment and reflection, and progenitor of countless  adoring media, The Mass Printed Book passed less-than-quietly, leaving behind a legacy of confusion in its wake. It will be missed.

The death of print has been reported for years now. But, while book stores continue to disappear, books themselves are still kicking. Even real books…made from the dying breath of countless trees.

But, whether print or digital, it really doesn’t matter. That’s just the medium, not the message (apologies to Marshall McLuhan). The important thing is that books themselves are doing just fine, thank you very much. People are still reading. A lot. And the book-publishing industry—while undergoing a massive make-over (hopefully with more dignity than the music industry has)—is, all-in-all, in pretty good shape.Read more...

About this time two years ago, while thinking about the growing void of quality mobile apps for education, an idea for a way to help fix that was born:  EdAppCamp. The idea was simple, easy to implement and would spark interest in a problem that needed attention. And the perfect domain name was registered: edappcamp.org/net/me/com/mobi (we thought it was going to be big, right?). Unfortunately, with only 24 hours in a day competing with other priorities, the idea slowly fell by the wayside… until today. 

Before the domains expire and get auto-registered from some remote corner in cyberspace, we’d like to transfer them (for free!) to an organization ready to carry the idea forward.  Read more...