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Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Big data and data analytics : interest in this is widespread and has some hefty power behind it. Personalized learning is winning a growing amount of attention, but no off-the-shelf tech solutions. From non-edutech trends.
Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of socialmedia; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Students will receive iPads.
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” Via The New York Times : “Apple Unveils New iPad to Catch Google in the Classroom.” ” Via The Verge : “Apple is ready to fight Google’s Chromebooks with cheaper iPads.” ” Also via The Verge : “Apple’s new iPad with Pencil support is just $299 for schools.”
Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. Bill Gates wouldn’t let his kids have cellphones. Green Imperial Pigeon.
Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on socialmedia,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Via Quartz: “ Even Apple is acknowledging that the ‘ iPads in education’ fad is coming to an end.”
” Via The Mercury News : “In Apple’s backyard, iPads ignite furor in schools.” ” Parents in the affluent school district are pushing back on the mandate that middle schoolers use iPads. The socialmedia platform had raised $2.5 ” The program: Teach to One. .”
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