Lenovo Monday began shipping its new ThinkPad Tablet, a 10.1-inch media tablet based on the Android 3.1 mobile operating system that offers out-of-the-box support for handwriting recognition with the ThinkPad Tablet Pen.
Califone has unveiled the PA419 PA system, which includes a dock for iPhone and iPod devices to stream or download digital audio files.
Education publisher Key Curriculum Press has released Sketchpad Explorer, a free iPad app that lets users access mathematics materials from the Geometer’s Sketchpad, a math instruction suite for grades 3 through 12.
Last spring, Tower School, an independent school in Marblehead, MA, launched a pilot program utilizing tablet computers. The success of the pilot has led the school to start a 1:1 iPad program for students in grades 3 through 8 this coming fall.
- By Tad Wayne Taborn
- 08/03/11
TechSmith has released a free digital whiteboard app, ScreenChomp, for the iPad.
Google has begun promoting a new $140, sub-8-ounce e-reader announced at the Consumer Electronics Show and now shipping through Target.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/27/11
As the for-profit sector gets into the virtual school business, public schools begin to vie for the online student at the same time they find new ways to help them be successful.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/26/11
A small team of Carnegie Mellon University students is nearing the end of a 10-week internship focused on developing programs that can be used by high school students to improve their English skills.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/19/11
When Michael P. Nagler came onboard as Mineola Union Free School District's superintendent of schools six years ago, he took one look around and knew the district was in need of a major IT overhaul. So he came up with a novel approach that would get him the budget he needed for the technology the school wanted while leaving some flexibility to make more agile technology decisions.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 07/14/11
Throwing new technology equipment at teachers and hoping that it sticks is an ineffective approach to integrating IT into the classroom. That's why Southfield Christian School in Southfield, MI, is putting professional development first on its to-do list for a fall 2011 iPad rollout.
- By Bridget McCrea
- 07/13/11