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SmartTech Roundup: From Blended Learning to Justin Bieber

Three minute foray into the future. Intel’s three minute video provides a peek into the blended classroom of the future. In response to the video, Tom noted on Getting Smart that the video shows a good partial picture of blended learning but leaves out some of the more compelling reasons for the shift such leveraging teaching talent with technology.

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SmartTech Roundup: Tablets, Blended Learning, STEM

Keeping Tabs On Tablets Nexus News. Google unveiled its Nexus tablet, coming in at $199, specs reveal both an 8GB and 16 GB option for the 7-in Jelly-Bean-powered tablet. In other Google news. Over 500 School Districts in US and Europe Use Chromebooks. Google launched new…

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3 Signs of Quality You Should Look For In Instructional Content

The future will bring amazingly better instructional content for teacher and student use. If the market notices key signs of this, then more effective, comprehensive content will be broadly and rapidly adopted, to the benefit of teaching and learning. I believe there’s three signs the market should be looking for.

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Zspace: The Future of 3D Learning

Zspace is an impressive immersive environment with obvious learning benefits. These workstations will be pricy for a while, so Zspace is not an education 1:1 solution just yet. But every young person needs to experience an immersive design and learning space like this. These workstations should be in high school and college STEM labs and public libraries. Virtual dissections, field trips, and design projects must be part of every high school experience.

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SmartTech Roundup

Blended Schools & Tools Rocky Mountain High-Access. Idaho announced the 30 school districts and two charter schools that will be the first to implement 1:1 laptops in the next two years (they’ll join Maine secondary schools, 40% of South Dakota high schools, a third of Iowa districts,…

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Urban Elementary Students Publish Their Own Math E-textbook

Jon Smith, or @theipodteacher as I’ve come to know him, caught my attention on Twitter this week. Students in Mr. Smith’s sixth grade classroom at Gibbs Elementary in Ohio’s Canton City Schools just published their own math textbook, released just days ago on iTunes!

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SmartTech Roundup

Blended Schools & Tools Take a look at international edtech. Brookings released “A New Face of Education: Bringing Technology Into the Classroom in the Developing World,” a new international education paper written by Rebecca Winthrop from Brookings and Marshall Smith formerly from the U.S. Department of Education. On the…