Thursday, August 1, 2013

Social Learning Platforms

"No more pencils, No more BOOKS,
no more teachers' dirty looks..."


I saw a lot of articles today about grockit, but I thought this was a particularly good one...


http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/31/grockit-sells-social-learning-platform-to-kaplan-goes-all-in-on-learnist-a-pinterest-for-education/

It will be interesting to see how this effects gamification in test prep. 

Anyway, this got me thinking about something slightly unrelated:

How long until there are no books at school?  I know there are some school districts in Florida in which every teacher has an ipad (compliments of the district) and I think some schools/classes are similarly enabled, but I am not aware of any districts in Florida that have gone completely digital.  I'm curious what the cost/benefit analysis has shown, I may have to look into this and repost :) 

2 comments:

  1. Is it bad that my first thought was "Oh, man, they're going to kill everything that was good about Learnist"?

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  2. That is so funny you say that...I thought the same thing!

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