Industry analysts predict that schools will purchase 3.5 million tablets by year’s end. How is this changing the classroom? WGBH’s innovation reporter Cristina Quinn takes a look at a digital platform that is helping teachers gauge student learning on the fly. View article at: http://wgbhnews.org/post/using-tablets-teach-not-distract-classroom.
Media Coverage
Digital Learning Tools: Technology is transforming the classroom
WGBH Greater Boston host Emily Rooney interviews our very own, Sue Cusack, regarding the use of digital devices to support student-centered learning:
Transformative Partnership
The Lesley University Graduate School of Education is in its third year of a close partnership with the Kennedy-Longfellow School, an elementary school in Cambridge, to explore the transformational uses of educational technology in an urban public school setting. View article at: http://www.lesley.edu/kennedy-longfellow-partnership/?terms=transformative%20partnership.
Lesley, Kennedy-Longfellow partner to reimagine S.T.E.M. learning
Forget rows of students seated behind desktops; in the computer labs of the future, students will be building robots and writing code. Cambridge Chronicle’s Erin Baldassari covers the integration of STEM into the Kennedy-Longfellow School. View article at: http://www.wickedlocal.com/x1039480562/Lesley-Kennedy-Longfellow-partner-to-reimagine-S-T-E-M-learning.
Eye on Education: iPads Being Used in Cambridge First Grade Class
CBS Boston, WBZ TV’s Paula Ebben covers digital learning at the Kennedy-Longfellow School, with a focus on the first grade. View article at:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/12/16/eye-on-education-ipads-being-used-in-cambridge-first-grade-class/.