Quality Digital Learning

The NLC report contains a list ofwhat they call 10 elements of High Quality Digital Learning:

• Student eligibility: all students are digital learners
• Student access: all students have access to high quality digital content and online courses
• Personalised learning: all students can customize their education using digital content through an approved provider
• Advancement: students progress based on demonstrated competency
• Content: Digital content, instructional materials, and online and blended learning courses are high quality
• Instruction: digital instruction and teachers are high quality
• Providers: all students have access to multiple high quality providers
• Assessment and accountability: student learning is the metric for evaluating the quality of content and instruction
• Funding: funding creates incentives for performance, options and innovation
• Delivery: infrastructure supports digital learning.

Read more: http://www.edweek.org/media/12-1-10_digital_learning_now_report.pdf

It's Here!

iPad has finally been launched by Apple this morning in San Francisco. This is a great device using the very successful touch technology. Makes surfing the net, watching and viewing all so easy. iPad also has its own version of iWorks - Pages, Keynote and Numbers to produce your own work.

Now the real fun will be to explore all the different ways we can use it to support learning. It can run all the iphone apps for a start, have some great tools of its own and who know what developers will come up with.

Exciting Fun Awesome