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Betting on 1:1 Odds

February 2014 — Will one tablet solve our education headaches?

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?

Guests at the Table:
David Engle
Superintendent, Port Townsend School District, Washington
Eileen M. Lento, PhD
WW Director of Strategy and Marketing, Intel Education
Elliot Soloway
Professor at Dept. of EECS, College of Engineering University of Michigan

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