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Entries Tagged "ipad"

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

ICT and the Early Grade Reading Assessment: From Testing to Teaching

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Tags: Android, assessment software, Carmen Strigel, continuous assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, data collection, Early Grade Reading Assessment, EGRA, Ethiopia, ipad, iProSurveyor, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile ICT Device, Mobile Phones, RTI International, Tablet
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 5 Comments »

Which Low-Cost Laptop is Best for Education?

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Tags: Apple, Asus, Asus EeePC, Classmare PC, Educational Ecosystem, Form Factor, Intel, ipad, Low Power Computers, Low-cost ICT, mEducation, mLearning, OLCP, One Laptop Per Child, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Affordable Technology | 8 Comments »

Affordable Technologies for Supporting Learning and Collaboration in Africa

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Tags: Affordable Technology, eTransform Africa, ipad, Laptops, Mobile Phones, OLPC, Policy Makers
Posted in Affordable Technology | 16 Comments »

Eventually Tablets will Facilitate more Personalized and Interactive Learning

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Tags: Folding Keyboards, iOs, ipad, iPad Usage, K-12 schools, Laptop, mobile operating system, Netbooks, One to One, tablet pc, US school district
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 6 Comments »

Tablets are Good, Content is Better, and Teachers are the Best Educational ICT Investment

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

Tags: African Populations, Apple, Chalk and Talk, Content, eBooks, ICT in Education, iOs, ipad, slide2learn, tablet pc, Teacher Training, Wikipedia
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 17 Comments »

Assessing the Impact of iPads on Education One Year Later

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Tags: App Market, Battery Life, Consumption Device, Educational Device, eTextbooks, GarageBand, Instant On, ipad, iPad Usage, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Sam Glicksman
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 13 Comments »

What the Post-PC Era Means for Education

Friday, April 15th, 2011

Tags: 200 MHz, 8086, Apple, GPS, ipad, OLPC, PDA, Pentium, Post-PC Era, Steve Jobs, Tablet, Virginia Campbell, XO Laptop
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 9 Comments »

What is the Potential Impact of the iPad, Kindle, and other Tablet Computers in Education?

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

Tags: administrator, children, Classroom, Developing World, Education, ICT4E, ipad, kindle, Learning, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, nook, slide2learn, students, Teachermate, Teachers
Posted in Tablet Computers in Education | 32 Comments »