Betting on 1:1 Odds: Will one tablet solve our education headaches?

Join us Wednesday, February 19th at 11:00am PT/2:00 PM ET at The Table for a lively and uncensored discussion on the topic Betting on 1:1 Odds: Will one tablet solve our education headaches?

Guests at The Table:

1. Elliot Soloway - Professor, Dept. of EECS, College of Engineering, Univ. of Michigan
2. Eileen M. Lento, PhD - WW Director of Strategy and Marketing, Intel Education
3. David Engle - Superintendent, Port Townsend Public School District

Increasingly, districts are looking to 1:1 devices as a critical component of personalized learning and addressing mediocre student performance. Michael Jay and our guests will chew on hard questions like, is one-to-one the right model? Will implementation of tablets alone positively impact learning without accompanying changes in teaching practices and learner expectations? There are many different devices that can useful in supporting learning. Why is one the magic number?

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