iPads vs. Textbooks

Yes, I think that Georgia has a great idea to solve budget woes in education; purchasing iPads for every student so that teachers can use OER for instruction instead of textbooks. Multimedia platforms, creative apps, and tweeting about what they learned to teach others - may not be the answer but it is in the right direction.
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/02/01/tommie-williams-state-considering-ipads-for-students/

Chatting with Dr. Tony Picciano today about this over lunch. Perhaps this is the future of our high school educational resources? Perhaps. I wonder what his response will be.

Quick Cite

Scan your book's bar code and get the citation in four formats. This would help my students out tremendously (if they go to the library and actually look at the books). http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/smartphone-app-makes-book-citations-a-snap/29768?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Txting, facebook, twitter, etc. replacing email

In the 12-17 age range email use by teens dropped by 59%. We are finding this to be true among college students also because they are less likely to check their campus mail. http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/08/6010428-why-are-teenagers-e-mailing-less-lately

Looking for more info on this...

National Education Technology Plan http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

How students REALLY feel about technology...

Gates and Me have same ideas

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/20/gates-and-weingarten-fixing-our-nation-s-schools.html Bill Gates and Randi Weingarten state many public opinions of our education system here in the US. I too think we need to follow other countries in Education but are we too self centered to think we are doing all the right things when clearly we are doing most of all the wrong things?

Free low cost droid apps for education

http://bit.ly/8VhPtu Droid Apps for education...cheap or free. Also try SugarSync...love it on all my devices.