“Last year, a survey by Quality Education Data Inc. found that 28 percent of U.S. school districts offered handhelds for student and teacher use. One of every four computers purchased by schools was a laptop.” – Associated Press.
The TeleRead take: The article raises a bunch of issues, including, of course, the screen one. Another question is whether some students would be better off being allowed to take their handhelds home. And still another? The steep prices that some schools are paying for public domain content that should be free or close to it. Related: Read all about it, in learning in hand.
Check this out, again from Washington. Looks like state public schools are getting into developing on-line curriculums for homeschool and independent study kids. The links for the programs themselves are here.
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