{"id":48800,"date":"2015-02-04T11:26:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=48800"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T16:26:35","slug":"tech-makes-solid-contributions-to-the-learning-experiences-of-these-chicago-based-5th-graders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/02\/04\/tech-makes-solid-contributions-to-the-learning-experiences-of-these-chicago-based-5th-graders\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech makes solid contributions to the learning experiences of these Chicago-based 5th graders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2015\/02\/02\/internet-access-as-vital-as-devices-to-boosting-the-learning-experience.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Internet access as vital as devices to boosting the learning experience<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thejournal.com by Dian Schaffhauser<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The project reported five key findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to a computing device and the Internet resulted in &#8220;greater student engagement in learning.&#8221; Eighty percent of the students said having the tablet &#8220;made learning more fun and interesting&#8221;; 72 percent reported they &#8220;were more engaged in their lessons.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sixty percent of students said they did more reading and writing during the school year because of having a tablet. In fact, teachers assigned more reading and writing homework because they knew home Internet access was available. &#8220;This resulted in increased reading and writing fluency, which is especially important for English Language Learners,&#8221; the report noted.<\/li>\n<li>Internet access shot up. Nearly 80 percent of students reported accessing the Internet on a daily basis in fifth grade, up from 4 percent in fourth grade.<\/li>\n<li>Students became more independent learners. Almost all said they &#8220;used their tablet regularly to look up information on the Internet when they had a question about something.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>With professional development, teachers changed their instructional practices. According to the report, this was evident &#8220;by the level of integration of the tablets into everyday instruction&#8221; and by &#8220;the new project based learning orientation within the classes.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But the greatest difference overall, the researchers stated, occurred because students could access online information anytime, anywhere. That access &#8220;transformed the classroom environment by allowing both students and teachers to bring additional resources into the learning process, at just the right moment to have the greatest impact on learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet access as vital as devices to boosting the learning experience &#8212; from thejournal.com by Dian Schaffhauser Excerpt: The project reported five key findings: Access to a computing device and the Internet resulted in &#8220;greater student engagement in learning.&#8221; Eighty percent of the students said having the tablet &#8220;made learning more fun and interesting&#8221;; 72 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,286,32,141,63,545,55,46,102,7,66,460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-google","category-heutagogy","category-internet","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-student-related","category-technology-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48806,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48800\/revisions\/48806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}