GoKnow Learning is the premier provider of
educational software, curriculum, and professional development for mobile, handheld computers.
How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
While appropriate as an initial focus, it is time that the educational community move beyond an emphasis on 1:1 computing (each child having his/her own personal computer) to a vision of a handheld-centric classroom, where each child not only has his/her own personal, handheld computer, but also has access to networked PCs, probeware, digital cameras, etc. Such a classroom digital infrastructure, we argue, uniquely supports project-based learning, where children can engage in multi-week, multi-media, multi-subject, collaborative efforts. With the rapid emergence of low-cost handheld devices, the realization of this vision--and its associated educational affordances-- is literally possible tomorrow in our children's classrooms. Thus, it is imperative that the educational community engages in extended conversations, now, about the range of teaching and learning opportunities that the handheld-centric classroom makes possible. Our article is a contribution to that discussion.
Harvard, MIT, and U. of Wisconsin partner under the US Department of Education's Star Schools grant to test the effects of handheld computer augmented reality simulations in the k-12 classroom.
NRC Executive Summary is from a new report noting the importance of research in emerging educational technologies.
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GoKnow Learning is the premier provider of educational software, curriculum, and professional development for mobile, handheld computers.
How learning in the classroom is changing and why Professor Chris Dede and his team are on a non-crusade to figure out how all of the pieces fit together.
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