Choose Your Own Adventure: Edtech in Low Income Community Schools. Being an elementary teacher at Brentwood Academy in East Palo Alto, Ca., I am constantly challenged with trying to differentiate to a wide range of students. In this year alone, I have students reading 1.5 grade levels above to students who are reading more than 2 grade levels below. One of the challenges I have faced as an inner-city school teacher is physically getting the technology, and while many districts provide schools with laptops or tablets, my school has trouble providing us with paper--let alone technology. I have had to resort to grant writing and Donorschoose.org to obtain the technology that I use daily.
Because of this, I do not have a 1:1 classroom, and need to find ways to maximize my technology use. I see firsthand that trying to differentiate student work to maximize learning can be daunting. Searching First, to find the most effective pieces of technology, I typically go to Demo Days and other tech events where vendors and app creators showcase their products. Testing. Mobile Study: Tablets Make a Difference in Teaching and Learning. Ed Tech Trends | Research Mobile Study: Tablets Make a Difference in Teaching and Learning A pair of studies released Wednesday — the first of their kind — found that tablets can make a difference in the learning habits of students.
The studies are part of a new Making Learning Mobile project, an attempt to quantify and qualify the benefits of mobile technology in education and the infrastructure needed to support mobile activities. The studies were conducted by Project Tomorrow and sponsored by Kajeet, a wireless service provider focused exclusively on kids and education. Funding was also provided by Qualcomm through its Wireless Reach initiative. The studies put Android tablets in the hands of students and their teachers in two schools — eighth-graders at Stone Middle School in Fairfax County Public Schools and fifth-graders at Falconer Elementary School in Chicago Public Schools — and provided wireless access to the students both in school and away from school.
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