In a bold move towards digitizing education, South Korea’s Ministry of Education Science and Technology has announced it is spending 2.2 trillion Wan ($2 billion USD) over the next four years, to convert its schools from classic paper textbooks to new digital versions on tablet PCs. The adoption of tablet based reading will also be accompanied by WiFi and cloud computing systems in schools.
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Education Week’s Digital Directions: Schools Struggle to Balance Digital Innovation, Academic Accountability
If K-12 policymakers insist on holding fast to grade-level assessments in reading and math currently used to determine whether a school or district is succeeding, Hess says, “what we’re going to do is limit the kinds of solutions that are going to emerge.”
Guest Blog: The Educational Value of Creative Disobedience
“The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done – men who are creative, inventive and discoverers” –Jean Piaget
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Shanker Blog » A ‘Summary Opinion’ Of The Hoxby NYC Charter School Study
Even well-designed, sophisticated analyses with important conclusions can be compromised by a misleading presentation of results.
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The Why and How of Using Facebook For Educators – No Need to be Friends At All! | The Edublogger
Worth looking at and thinking about with regard to setting up our own guides for social media.