Søren Maagaard's List: To_Ipad_2013

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• a sprawling, complicated enterprise—more streamlined, targeted and efficient
• believe, is a more cost-effective investment
• lackboards and worksheets seem so last century. They are finding that using technology is altering,
• embracing ed tech
• • nullpanacea = patentløsning
    flux = hastig forandring -- 2013-02-02
    subtly = fint / umærkeligt -- 2013-02-02
    
• enthusiasm
• reverberated
• pouring money
• “Is it a bubble?”
• caution as well
• Every new wave of technology that has been tried in classrooms—radio, television, videocassettes, desktop computers and smartboards
• has ridden a wave of enthusiasm, rapid adoption and, then, brutally dashed expectations.  
• First, the promoters’ exhilaration splashes over decision makers as they purchase and deploy equipment in schools and classrooms
• seldom superior to—conventional instruction in conveying information and teaching skills
• find that classroom use is less than expected
• stinging rebukes of administrators and teachers for spending scarce dollars on expensive machinery that fails to display superiority over existing techniques of instruction and, even worse, is only occasionally used
• Pads in the classroom, too, are hardly turning out to be a panacea.
• Most, not
• iPads cost school districts 552 percent more than those old-school textbooks
• succeed in getting their model just right
• parents and taxpayers, be cautious
• doesn’t overtake good judgment

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