1:1 Learning
Enhance learning opportunities and students’ digital literacy skills.
1 to 1 puts learning in the hands of the student, anytime, anywhere. Your students can access vast array of digital resources, media and content, whenever they like, on a computer or other device – for use at home and at school.
The benefits? New skills like:
- Critical thinking
- Collaboration
- Self motivation
Plus – students will be working in a modern learning environment, developing their creativity, taking greater responsibility and ownership of their work.
There are a few things to consider before you can develop 1 to 1 successfully – but make it happen and the benefits will be endless.
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Parents’ Perceptions Following the First Year of Implementation of the First Pilot One-to-One Laptop Initiative in Cyprus
Abstract of my research [University of Leeds, 2012]
A 1:1 program binds many policy makers such as teachers, students, and parents of students as they all participate in reforming the whole concept of teaching in general, and teaching for understanding in particular, in the school setting. My study on parent’s perceptions following the first year of a 1:1 program implementation provides evidence of positive experience of parents, evidenced in short by a father’s saying: ‘We expected an effective ...
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Collaborative learning in a one-to-one program
Computer-supported collaborative learning tends to make use of either hardware of software as mediating tool in collaboration. Early work with computers and collaborative learning made use of the fact that there would be only one computer in a classroom and looked at how this could be used to encourage children to work together. Nowadays, in an ever growing one-to-one learning environment in classrooms, students have the opportunity to use a wide range of collaborative tools, anywhere, anytime ...
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Tablets and Authentic Learning
In my previous post I described how mobile learning with tablets (such as Microsoft Surface, Android and iPad devices) falls into two categories - improving content transfer in order to prepare students for college and supporting authentic learning to prepare students for careers - and I gave some examples of how tablets can improve engagement and efficiency for content transfer. Today I will describe some examples of how tablets have been used to support authentic learning.
The phrase, “...
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The Value of 1-to-1 SAT and ACT Prep
It is not about the quantity of the hours spent on SAT or ACT prep, but about the quality of those hours. Completing endless pages of practice problems for months (or years) will not necessarily produce better results come test day. A targeted approach will yield the greatest increase in scores while decreasing time, energy, money, and stress spent on test prep.
1-to-1 test prep is the optimal choice for any student for one simple reason: students already know the content!
SAT Math barely ...
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Introduction to Eric Karlan
My name is Eric Karlan and I am excited to join the Microsoft Learning Project team!
After growing up in Connecticut for my entire life, I moved to Philadelphia to attend the University of Pennsylvania. I earned my Bachelors in 2009 after creating an individualized major: Journalism, History, and Culture. The following year, I co-founded : an academic tutoring, SAT/ACT test prep, and college essay consulting company.
Since starting Ivy Experience, I have enjoyed working with students, parents,...
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Got Tablets! Now What?
Now that tablets such as Microsoft Surface, Android devices, and iPads are becoming increasingly popular in classrooms, more and more teachers are faced with the question of how to start using these beautiful technologies once they are delivered into their hands. As mobile learning is still a new, emerging field, every teacher in every classroom using mobile learning is a pioneer blazing new trails, and there is no simple checklist of practices that will guarantee success. Still, there is a ...
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Self-directedness: an idea whose time is finally coming, but not neccessarily through a hole in the wall
There is little doubt that the discontent around the role and impact of schools is getting significantly louder, and Sugata Mitra's $1million TED prize will only serve to fuel the discussion even more. Sugata is an exceptional communicator, and his ideals around the Future of Learning resonant with many because of the apparent logic and simplicity of his argument, and the ‘evidence’ he shares through his narrative.
Any school or system seeking to move to more technology-rich learning environment ...
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BYOD...an acronym that seems to solve everything, or does it?
At several recent conferences I have been speaking at, there has been a lot of interest in the concept of students bringing their own computers, laptops, technology or devices…depending on how you like your acronym. It think it warrants further discussion.
On the surface it would seem natural that this is something the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation would be fully supportive of, and in broad principle of course we are. Our vision is for every child to have access to their own ‘personal ...
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The Value of Vision
Inevitably when any school, or system is considering 1 to 1, they are asked about why they want every child to have their own personal portable fully functional computer. As obvious as the question is, the answers are much less so.
In the first instance you have those who have given the question little thought, but rather think "it just seems like what we should be doing'; or worse still, are following other schools or system out of fear of 'being left behind'. As absurd as the latter 'rationale...
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The Scourge of Low Expectations
How clearly can you articulate your expectations for what a technology-rich environment makes possible for learners?
Do you remember the early days of computers in schools? When the pure novelty of a new software application caused excitement and ‘engagement’ from students? Many of us had little idea of the real implications, but we were all starting to understand that an unprecedented shift in our thinking about how young people might learn was taking place.
These were the times of occasional ...
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Setting Expectations-cautious incrementalism
Despite being often inspired by the extraordinary work I am fortunate enough to see in schools that I visit across the globe, I am occassionally taken aback by examples of what could be most kindly called cautious incrementalism.
This was perhaps best typified by my visit to a school in Australia recently, where the Principal expressed dismay at the lack of use of laptops by teachers, even though they had done professsional development workshops around cybersafety. ...yes I said cybersafety, and ...
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21 Steps to 21st Century Learning
Every child has the right to learn
That right implies their best opportunity to learn is using digital medium. It provides unlimited scope and opportunities to learners of all ages, yet we still have a number of educational and political leaders searching for a rationale that supports young learners having their own laptop.
Even more concerning are those whose thinking is influenced primarily by a technology or political imperative. This has given rise to initiatives built around e-book readers...
