Educational Technology

May 16, 2015

5 Ways to Extend Tablets Beyond the Screen

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

By David Raths, THE Journal

As tablets move from novelty items to staples in the classroom, teachers are finding new ways to make them more than just another screen for students to look at. According to Sam Patterson, a technology integration specialist at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School, a K-8 school in Palo Alto, CA, “What we are seeing is technology becoming more and more transparent.” Years ago, if you had a computer for every student in the class it would look like a computer lab. And then each student had a laptop, and it was a classroom full of screens, he noted. “Now students have the ability to connect to other things in the room, so that when we are collecting data we can do it directly and do observations,” he said. “It is amazing that in a seventh-grade science class, you can import data and it is in a spreadsheet already. You can start to work with that data without having to teach the students how to build a spreadsheet.”

http://thejournal.com/articles/2015/05/06/5-ways-to-extend-tablets-beyond-the-screen.aspx

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