Beginning with the eSchool News.
Kajeet, a cell phone carrier that specializes in kid-friendly mobile service, announced June 25 its participation in “Making Learning Mobile,” a pilot program that assesses the mobile computing needs of students and teachers. For the 2012-13 school year, kajeet will provide Android tablets to 120 eighth-graders in Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools and 180 fifth-graders in the Chicago Public Schools. Students will bring their devices to all their classes and take them home each day. And because kajeet provides access to the mobile broadband network, students don’t have to search out Wi-Fi hotspots—they’ll have connectivity anywhere there is cell phone service on the Sprint network.
“This is not using technology as a supplement to traditional instruction; this is using technology as a core component of instructional delivery,” said Michael Flood, kajeet’s vice president of education markets.
Do projects like this one bring tablets closer to the educational mainstream? Will tablets someday be commonplace in schools? Let us know in our comment section, or eMail me at dpierce@eschoolnews.com.
Regards,
Dennis Pierce, Editor
dpierce@eschoolnews.com
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