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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-31176\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/1470057351-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"147005735\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/personalized-learning/\">\u003cstrong>By Emily Hanford and Stephen Smith, American RadioWorks\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham wrote a book called \u003cem>Why Don't Students Like School?\u003c/em> The book is complex and fascinating - and 228 pages - but you can basically boil the answer down to this: Students don't like school because school isn't set up to help them learn very well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing to know is that everyone likes to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a sense of satisfaction, of fulfillment, in successful thinking,\" writes Willingham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not fun to try to learn something that's too hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Working on a problem with no sense that you're making progress is not pleasurable,\" writes Willingham. \"In fact, it's frustrating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working on a problem that's too easy is no fun either. It's boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What people enjoy is working on problems that are the right level of difficulty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem must be easy enough to be solved yet difficult enough to take some mental effort,\" Willingham writes. He calls this the \"sweet spot\" of difficulty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with most schools is that kids don't get to their sweet spot enough. There are 20 other kids in the class - or maybe 30 or even 40. Everyone is in a slightly different place. Some kids get it and want to move ahead. Others are struggling to catch up and need more explanation. It's a challenge for teachers. The best teachers try to meet each student's needs. But a lot of teachers end up teaching to the middle. That leaves a lot of kids bored, or frustrated, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think teachers are acutely aware that this is an enormous problem,\" Willingham said in an interview. \"I don't think it's easily solved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The technological solutions are more difficult to implement than would appear at first blush. The software has got to be really good in order to reap this advantage that it can adjust to a student's individual pace of learning.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You can trace the roots of the problem back to the Industrial Revolution. That's when American public schools as we know them today got started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the rise of factories and cities, most people lived on farms and in small villages. Children were typically educated in one-room schoolhouses. \"In such environments, education could be individualized,\" says Angeline Lillard, a professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the history of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everything was perfect in the one-room school. But if you were 10 and needed to learn addition, that's what the teacher taught you. If you were 5 and already knew how to write your name, you'd move on with the older kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 1847 in Quincy, Massachusetts a new kind of school appeared on the scene. Instead of being together in one room, students were separated into classrooms based on how old they were. It was seen as a more efficient way to educate children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole country was so taken by this idea that we could improve through industrialization,\" says Lillard. \"Mass production was going to be the wings through which we could fly into the future. And schools were no different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 20th century, some education experts were actually referring to schools as factories. Elwood Cubberley, dean of Stanford University's School of Education from 1917 to 1933, put it bluntly: Schools were \"factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we lost from the one-room schoolhouse days was individualization,\" says Lillard. \"We replaced that with an expectation that all children be the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today it's a big challenge to deal with the 10-year-olds who haven't learned addition; they're supposed to be doing fifth-grade math. There's not a good way to deal with the 5-year-olds who are ready to move ahead either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem of how to meet students' individual needs is at the heart of today's education debates: the achievement gap, tracking, social promotion. These are among the thorniest and most important issues facing American schools, and they all have something to do with the fact that we expect students of a certain age to be in a certain place with their learning, rather than working with each child individually based on their unique learning needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All students are supposed to accomplish exactly the same goals under exactly the same circumstances by exactly the same date and demonstrate their learning in exactly the same way,\" says Carol Ann Tomlinson, sounding a bit exasperated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomlinson is an expert on a teaching technique called \"differentiated instruction.\" It's a response to the challenge of working with a classroom full of kids who have different abilities and interests. Rather than teaching to the middle, the teacher offers a variety of lessons or assignments so that the students who are ahead get more challenging work and students who are behind get more practice on basic concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomlinson's research shows differentiated instruction can be done. But even she admits it's not easy. It takes talented teachers and good training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keona Walker says she learned all about differentiated instruction during her teacher training. When asked how she pulled it off in the classroom, she laughs. She says differentiated instruction is \"possible, yes. Realistic? No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31175\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-31175\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/mooresville04-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"mooresville04\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker was an English teacher at a high school in Indianapolis, Indiana. In any given class she would have some students who were ready for college-level work and others who couldn't \"tell you what the verb of a sentence was.\" She felt constantly frustrated and unable to meet everyone's needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she heard about a new school with a different approach to learning. The school is called Carpe Diem-Meridian. It's a public charter school that opened in Indianapolis in August 2012. Students spend part of the day in traditional classes, and part of the day learning on computer. There's an online curriculum; students move through each course at their own pace. When they demonstrate they've mastered the material, they move on to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker is the English teacher at Carpe Diem. She says because students spend part of their day learning on computer, she has more time to work with students individually. And she thinks when students work on their own at their own pace they actually have a better understanding of what they need help with. \"These are the things I've mastered. I don't need help with that,\" they'll say to her. \"These are the things that I can read and understand on my own. [And] these are the things that I really need help with.\" That's what she focuses on with them. She says it's a more efficient way to teach -- and to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham is not familiar enough with Carpe Diem to comment specifically on the school's model. But he says technology is a possible solution to the \"sweet spot\" problem. He says learning on computers does not necessarily result in better learning, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The technological solutions are more difficult to implement than would appear at first blush,\" he says. Teachers need lots of training. And he adds: \"The software has got to be really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software is getting better. So-called \u003ca href=\"http://edgrowthadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Learning-to-Adapt_Report_Supplier-Landscape_Education-Growth-Advisors_April-2013.pdf\">\"adaptive learning\" programs\u003c/a>, which have been around for more than a decade, are designed to adjust to an individual's needs. A student answers questions or solves problems and the software adapts the level of difficulty depending on how the student is performing. Dozens of companies have developed this kind of software. The software varies in quality. Research suggests some adaptive learning programs do help students learn better, but \u003ca href=\"http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/\">the research\u003c/a> is sparse and overall the results are mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willingham says technology may be a solution to the \"sweet spot\" problem for some students and some schools. When asked if he would send his own children to a school that uses computers to help teachers individualize instruction for students he says: \"The answer would depend a lot on how old my child is.\" He's not sure putting young children on computers for large or even small parts of the school day is a good idea. He says his own kids, who are 6 and 8, don't use computers at all -- at school or at home. He doesn't see any reason his children need to use computers yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a personal choice, he says, not based on evidence that there's something categorically wrong with young children using technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willingham does note, however, that research shows the emotional connection between a student and a teacher is enormously important when it comes to how much a student learns. He doesn't think students of any age should spend all of their time learning on a computer. The balance between time spent with computers and time spent with other human beings is important for schools to consider as they think about bringing technology into classrooms. Willingham says this may be the most important question -- even more important than how good the software is. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's not fun to try to learn something that's too hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Working on a problem with no sense that you're making progress is not pleasurable,\" writes Willingham. \"In fact, it's frustrating.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working on a problem that's too easy is no fun either. It's boring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What people enjoy is working on problems that are the right level of difficulty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The problem must be easy enough to be solved yet difficult enough to take some mental effort,\" Willingham writes. He calls this the \"sweet spot\" of difficulty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem with most schools is that kids don't get to their sweet spot enough. There are 20 other kids in the class - or maybe 30 or even 40. Everyone is in a slightly different place. Some kids get it and want to move ahead. Others are struggling to catch up and need more explanation. It's a challenge for teachers. The best teachers try to meet each student's needs. But a lot of teachers end up teaching to the middle. That leaves a lot of kids bored, or frustrated, or both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think teachers are acutely aware that this is an enormous problem,\" Willingham said in an interview. \"I don't think it's easily solved.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"The technological solutions are more difficult to implement than would appear at first blush. The software has got to be really good in order to reap this advantage that it can adjust to a student's individual pace of learning.\"\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You can trace the roots of the problem back to the Industrial Revolution. That's when American public schools as we know them today got started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the rise of factories and cities, most people lived on farms and in small villages. Children were typically educated in one-room schoolhouses. \"In such environments, education could be individualized,\" says Angeline Lillard, a professor at the University of Virginia who has written about the history of education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everything was perfect in the one-room school. But if you were 10 and needed to learn addition, that's what the teacher taught you. If you were 5 and already knew how to write your name, you'd move on with the older kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 1847 in Quincy, Massachusetts a new kind of school appeared on the scene. Instead of being together in one room, students were separated into classrooms based on how old they were. It was seen as a more efficient way to educate children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The whole country was so taken by this idea that we could improve through industrialization,\" says Lillard. \"Mass production was going to be the wings through which we could fly into the future. And schools were no different.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the early 20th century, some education experts were actually referring to schools as factories. Elwood Cubberley, dean of Stanford University's School of Education from 1917 to 1933, put it bluntly: Schools were \"factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we lost from the one-room schoolhouse days was individualization,\" says Lillard. \"We replaced that with an expectation that all children be the same.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today it's a big challenge to deal with the 10-year-olds who haven't learned addition; they're supposed to be doing fifth-grade math. There's not a good way to deal with the 5-year-olds who are ready to move ahead either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem of how to meet students' individual needs is at the heart of today's education debates: the achievement gap, tracking, social promotion. These are among the thorniest and most important issues facing American schools, and they all have something to do with the fact that we expect students of a certain age to be in a certain place with their learning, rather than working with each child individually based on their unique learning needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All students are supposed to accomplish exactly the same goals under exactly the same circumstances by exactly the same date and demonstrate their learning in exactly the same way,\" says Carol Ann Tomlinson, sounding a bit exasperated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomlinson is an expert on a teaching technique called \"differentiated instruction.\" It's a response to the challenge of working with a classroom full of kids who have different abilities and interests. Rather than teaching to the middle, the teacher offers a variety of lessons or assignments so that the students who are ahead get more challenging work and students who are behind get more practice on basic concepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tomlinson's research shows differentiated instruction can be done. But even she admits it's not easy. It takes talented teachers and good training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keona Walker says she learned all about differentiated instruction during her teacher training. When asked how she pulled it off in the classroom, she laughs. She says differentiated instruction is \"possible, yes. Realistic? No.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31175\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-31175\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/mooresville04-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"mooresville04\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Walker was an English teacher at a high school in Indianapolis, Indiana. In any given class she would have some students who were ready for college-level work and others who couldn't \"tell you what the verb of a sentence was.\" She felt constantly frustrated and unable to meet everyone's needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then she heard about a new school with a different approach to learning. The school is called Carpe Diem-Meridian. It's a public charter school that opened in Indianapolis in August 2012. Students spend part of the day in traditional classes, and part of the day learning on computer. There's an online curriculum; students move through each course at their own pace. When they demonstrate they've mastered the material, they move on to the next level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker is the English teacher at Carpe Diem. She says because students spend part of their day learning on computer, she has more time to work with students individually. And she thinks when students work on their own at their own pace they actually have a better understanding of what they need help with. \"These are the things I've mastered. I don't need help with that,\" they'll say to her. \"These are the things that I can read and understand on my own. [And] these are the things that I really need help with.\" That's what she focuses on with them. She says it's a more efficient way to teach -- and to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham is not familiar enough with Carpe Diem to comment specifically on the school's model. But he says technology is a possible solution to the \"sweet spot\" problem. He says learning on computers does not necessarily result in better learning, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The technological solutions are more difficult to implement than would appear at first blush,\" he says. Teachers need lots of training. And he adds: \"The software has got to be really good.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software is getting better. So-called \u003ca href=\"http://edgrowthadvisors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Learning-to-Adapt_Report_Supplier-Landscape_Education-Growth-Advisors_April-2013.pdf\">\"adaptive learning\" programs\u003c/a>, which have been around for more than a decade, are designed to adjust to an individual's needs. A student answers questions or solves problems and the software adapts the level of difficulty depending on how the student is performing. Dozens of companies have developed this kind of software. The software varies in quality. Research suggests some adaptive learning programs do help students learn better, but \u003ca href=\"http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/\">the research\u003c/a> is sparse and overall the results are mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willingham says technology may be a solution to the \"sweet spot\" problem for some students and some schools. When asked if he would send his own children to a school that uses computers to help teachers individualize instruction for students he says: \"The answer would depend a lot on how old my child is.\" He's not sure putting young children on computers for large or even small parts of the school day is a good idea. He says his own kids, who are 6 and 8, don't use computers at all -- at school or at home. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-31125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/158752997-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"158752997\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Just a couple of short years ago, the presence of tablets in schools was an exceptional phenomenon. This year, as students across the country go back to school, the presence of tablets is far more common in classrooms. Though it's definitely not the norm yet, many more schools and districts are investing in the devices for a variety of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study conducted by \u003ca href=\"http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/05/08/report-students-use-smart-phones-and-tablets-for-school-want-more.aspx\">Harris Interactive for publisher Pearson\u003c/a> showed that, while 44 percent of kids are using some kind of tablet for learning, 92 percent of kids surveyed believe that using a tablet in school will change how they learn in the future. And 90 percent of students said using a tablet makes learning more fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the iPad gets most of the limelight, other tablet makers like Intel, Samsung, Google, and Amplify are getting into the game, providing a variety of education programming, apps, and curriculum. From plug-in paint tools to magnifying glasses, tablet makers are competing for a share of the education market by creating new ways to use tablets in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though this is not an exhaustive list of every type of tablet used in schools, here are the top-rated devices for education and a look what's distinct about each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vincigenius.com/en/\">VINCI \u003c/a>Android Tablet for young children, ages 1.5-9 years. ($110-$184.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-31112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/VM-5610_View_1-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"VM-5610_View_1\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">This affordable tablet is aimed at the youngest students, and has won an \u003ca href=\"http://www.vincigenius.com/community/vinci-named-as-ces-innovations-2013-design-and-engineering-award-honoree/\">International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award\u003c/a> for its unique VINCI curriculum. VINCI has broken down learning apps into two groups -- Home and School -- and categorized both by age and subject. The for-school portion’s curriculum categories are Early Math, Language Arts, Early Science, Thematic Units, and Learning Centers, but using the WiFi on the tablet allows access to download more apps from Google Play. Tablets come with tempered glass screens and sturdy plastic cases, and are available in three options: the\u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VS-3001\"> Tab II 7”\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VS-5100\">Tab III M 5”\u003c/a>, which supports child voice recognition and can be networked together for children to play in groups, and the \u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VM-5610\">Tab MV 5\u003c/a>”, which is a WiFi tablet and smartphone combination. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vincieducation.com/technology/tablets/\">The 7\" version is the School Edition.\u003c/a> The downside is that most apps aren’t appropriate for older children, and some \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/worst-toy-of-2011/\">wonder if it’s just a toy\u003c/a> disguised as a “learning device.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amplify.com/index.php/tablet\">Amplify \u003c/a>Tablet for K-12 Education. ($299-$349 for tablets, with 2-year curriculum subscription fees ranging from $99-$179)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/Amplify_Tablet-2x_414_313-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"Amplify_Tablet-2x_414_313\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">News Corp’s entrance into the tablets-for-education market promises technology that connects students and teachers while being Common Core aligned. The 10” tablet, featuring the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system, comes preloaded with Amplify’s exclusive education platform as well as lots of Google products, including Goolge Play, Google Hangout, Google Messenger and Google Talkback. Amplify also offers professional development both at the district level and to teachers to learn how to integrate the tablets - and curriculum - into classrooms. One of Amplify’s strengths seems to be how tailored it is to educators: “This actually offers features to teachers aimed at delivering instant feedback and differentiated instruction,” writes Terrence O’Brien at \u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/06/amplify-tablet-is-an-android-machine-custom-built-for-education/\">Endgadget.\u003c/a> “Everything from taking attendance and blocking distracting apps, to polling students comprehension and pushing supplemental materials to those that need it can be managed from the educator's unit. There's also the ability to build custom lesson plans called Playlists, that can incorporate material from locally stored textbooks, pre-loaded Khan Academy videos and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xotablet.com/#introduction\">XO \u003c/a>Tablet by One Laptop Per Child ($149.00)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/product-shot01-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"product-shot01\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Designed by Yves Behar’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fuseproject.com/\">Fuseproject\u003c/a>, this affordable 7” tablet meant to be used around the globe is offered by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://one.laptop.org/\">One Laptop per Child\u003c/a>. The WiFi enabled tablet features a touch-screen made of multi-touch, flexible plastic, “so many hands can play and learn together.” The tablet can be used as a horizontal book, a portrait-style book, can turn into a full keyboard and features both a front and back-facing camera. Featuring special Android-based XO software and available in English and Spanish and soon may other languages, the\u003ca href=\"http://xo-learning.org/\"> XO Learning System\u003c/a> is built around 12 “dreams,” or professions children may be interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab\">Samsung Galaxy Tab\u003c/a> + Samsung School ($199.99 - $499.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/T3100_400x400_large1_vf-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"T3100_400x400_large1_vf\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Samsung’s tablet comes in four sizes - from 7” to 10.1” - and Samsung’s brand new \u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/samsung-galaxy-tab-3-7-0-8-0-and-10-1-release-date-pricing/\">Galaxy 3 7.0\u003c/a> is an entry-level tablet that promises a lower price point ($199.99), and has just announced plans of \u003ca href=\"http://tabtimes.com/news/education/2013/08/26/samsung-plans-kids-version-galaxy-tab-3\">creating a tablet just for kids\u003c/a>. Samsung is playing in the major-brand tablet market, with large processors and featuring front and back-facing cameras enabled for photo and video. While there have been reports that Samsung will be creating a Learning Hub similar to iTunes U in the near future, for now Samsung offers \u003ca href=\"http://www.samsung.com/us/article/samsung-school-makes-the-grade\">Samsung School\u003c/a>, which seeks to be a learning management system for educators. Features include an interactive whiteboard that can simultaneously appear on student tablet screens, conduct Q&As and polls, and organize ebooks and apps, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education-solutions/tablets.html\">Intel Education 10” Tablet\u003c/a> (price not yet available)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/ies-sh-hf-angle-1x1.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.168.168-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"ies-sh-hf-angle-1x1.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.168.168\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Intel just released its plans to add a tablet for education to its line of products, featuring a powerful processor and tools promised to be especially useful in education -- including an e-Reader, painting tools and accessories, and a suite of tools made for science exploration, like an attachable magnifying glass and thermal probe. The tablet, which runs on Android operating system code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, boasts an \u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/tablets-atom.html\">extra-long battery life\u003c/a> and comes preloaded with Intel’s Education Software package, which includes special math and science apps like the Education Lab Camera, SPARKvue and Kno Textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/ipad/\">iPad Tablet\u003c/a> and iPad Mini ($329.99 - $729.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31118\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/Screen-Shot-2013-09-03-at-4.46.11-PM-140x140.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-09-03 at 4.46.11 PM\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">With reportedly over 10 million tablets already in schools, iPad continues to lead the way in using handheld technology to further education. Both the 9.7” tablet and the 7.9” Mini feature front and back-facing cameras, access to thousands of books and textbooks through iBooks, the App Store and iTunes U. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-31125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/158752997-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"158752997\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">Just a couple of short years ago, the presence of tablets in schools was an exceptional phenomenon. This year, as students across the country go back to school, the presence of tablets is far more common in classrooms. Though it's definitely not the norm yet, many more schools and districts are investing in the devices for a variety of reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study conducted by \u003ca href=\"http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/05/08/report-students-use-smart-phones-and-tablets-for-school-want-more.aspx\">Harris Interactive for publisher Pearson\u003c/a> showed that, while 44 percent of kids are using some kind of tablet for learning, 92 percent of kids surveyed believe that using a tablet in school will change how they learn in the future. And 90 percent of students said using a tablet makes learning more fun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the iPad gets most of the limelight, other tablet makers like Intel, Samsung, Google, and Amplify are getting into the game, providing a variety of education programming, apps, and curriculum. From plug-in paint tools to magnifying glasses, tablet makers are competing for a share of the education market by creating new ways to use tablets in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though this is not an exhaustive list of every type of tablet used in schools, here are the top-rated devices for education and a look what's distinct about each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vincigenius.com/en/\">VINCI \u003c/a>Android Tablet for young children, ages 1.5-9 years. ($110-$184.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31112\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-31112\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/VM-5610_View_1-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"VM-5610_View_1\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">This affordable tablet is aimed at the youngest students, and has won an \u003ca href=\"http://www.vincigenius.com/community/vinci-named-as-ces-innovations-2013-design-and-engineering-award-honoree/\">International CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award\u003c/a> for its unique VINCI curriculum. VINCI has broken down learning apps into two groups -- Home and School -- and categorized both by age and subject. The for-school portion’s curriculum categories are Early Math, Language Arts, Early Science, Thematic Units, and Learning Centers, but using the WiFi on the tablet allows access to download more apps from Google Play. Tablets come with tempered glass screens and sturdy plastic cases, and are available in three options: the\u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VS-3001\"> Tab II 7”\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VS-5100\">Tab III M 5”\u003c/a>, which supports child voice recognition and can be networked together for children to play in groups, and the \u003ca href=\"http://store.vincigenius.com/products/LearningSystems/p_VM-5610\">Tab MV 5\u003c/a>”, which is a WiFi tablet and smartphone combination. \u003ca href=\"http://www.vincieducation.com/technology/tablets/\">The 7\" version is the School Edition.\u003c/a> The downside is that most apps aren’t appropriate for older children, and some \u003ca href=\"http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/worst-toy-of-2011/\">wonder if it’s just a toy\u003c/a> disguised as a “learning device.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.amplify.com/index.php/tablet\">Amplify \u003c/a>Tablet for K-12 Education. ($299-$349 for tablets, with 2-year curriculum subscription fees ranging from $99-$179)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31113\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/Amplify_Tablet-2x_414_313-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"Amplify_Tablet-2x_414_313\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">News Corp’s entrance into the tablets-for-education market promises technology that connects students and teachers while being Common Core aligned. The 10” tablet, featuring the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean operating system, comes preloaded with Amplify’s exclusive education platform as well as lots of Google products, including Goolge Play, Google Hangout, Google Messenger and Google Talkback. Amplify also offers professional development both at the district level and to teachers to learn how to integrate the tablets - and curriculum - into classrooms. One of Amplify’s strengths seems to be how tailored it is to educators: “This actually offers features to teachers aimed at delivering instant feedback and differentiated instruction,” writes Terrence O’Brien at \u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/06/amplify-tablet-is-an-android-machine-custom-built-for-education/\">Endgadget.\u003c/a> “Everything from taking attendance and blocking distracting apps, to polling students comprehension and pushing supplemental materials to those that need it can be managed from the educator's unit. There's also the ability to build custom lesson plans called Playlists, that can incorporate material from locally stored textbooks, pre-loaded Khan Academy videos and the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.xotablet.com/#introduction\">XO \u003c/a>Tablet by One Laptop Per Child ($149.00)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31114\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/product-shot01-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"product-shot01\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Designed by Yves Behar’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fuseproject.com/\">Fuseproject\u003c/a>, this affordable 7” tablet meant to be used around the globe is offered by the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://one.laptop.org/\">One Laptop per Child\u003c/a>. The WiFi enabled tablet features a touch-screen made of multi-touch, flexible plastic, “so many hands can play and learn together.” The tablet can be used as a horizontal book, a portrait-style book, can turn into a full keyboard and features both a front and back-facing camera. Featuring special Android-based XO software and available in English and Spanish and soon may other languages, the\u003ca href=\"http://xo-learning.org/\"> XO Learning System\u003c/a> is built around 12 “dreams,” or professions children may be interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/galaxy-tab\">Samsung Galaxy Tab\u003c/a> + Samsung School ($199.99 - $499.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31116\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/T3100_400x400_large1_vf-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"T3100_400x400_large1_vf\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Samsung’s tablet comes in four sizes - from 7” to 10.1” - and Samsung’s brand new \u003ca href=\"http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/24/samsung-galaxy-tab-3-7-0-8-0-and-10-1-release-date-pricing/\">Galaxy 3 7.0\u003c/a> is an entry-level tablet that promises a lower price point ($199.99), and has just announced plans of \u003ca href=\"http://tabtimes.com/news/education/2013/08/26/samsung-plans-kids-version-galaxy-tab-3\">creating a tablet just for kids\u003c/a>. Samsung is playing in the major-brand tablet market, with large processors and featuring front and back-facing cameras enabled for photo and video. While there have been reports that Samsung will be creating a Learning Hub similar to iTunes U in the near future, for now Samsung offers \u003ca href=\"http://www.samsung.com/us/article/samsung-school-makes-the-grade\">Samsung School\u003c/a>, which seeks to be a learning management system for educators. Features include an interactive whiteboard that can simultaneously appear on student tablet screens, conduct Q&As and polls, and organize ebooks and apps, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/education-solutions/tablets.html\">Intel Education 10” Tablet\u003c/a> (price not yet available)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31117\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/ies-sh-hf-angle-1x1.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.168.168-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"ies-sh-hf-angle-1x1.jpg.rendition.cq5dam.webintel.168.168\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">Intel just released its plans to add a tablet for education to its line of products, featuring a powerful processor and tools promised to be especially useful in education -- including an e-Reader, painting tools and accessories, and a suite of tools made for science exploration, like an attachable magnifying glass and thermal probe. The tablet, which runs on Android operating system code-named Ice Cream Sandwich, boasts an \u003ca href=\"http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/tablets-atom.html\">extra-long battery life\u003c/a> and comes preloaded with Intel’s Education Software package, which includes special math and science apps like the Education Lab Camera, SPARKvue and Kno Textbooks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/ipad/\">iPad Tablet\u003c/a> and iPad Mini ($329.99 - $729.99)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-31118\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/Screen-Shot-2013-09-03-at-4.46.11-PM-140x140.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-09-03 at 4.46.11 PM\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">With reportedly over 10 million tablets already in schools, iPad continues to lead the way in using handheld technology to further education. Both the 9.7” tablet and the 7.9” Mini feature front and back-facing cameras, access to thousands of books and textbooks through iBooks, the App Store and iTunes U. While Apple remains proprietary in integrating all its products to work together, it has also has smartly eschewed fancy add-ons and accessories, seeming to focus on providing the best learning games, apps and content to satisfy schools’ very real needs to integrate technology into classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\n\u003ch4>\u003ca href=\"http://www.dell.com/us/p/latitude-10-tablet/pd?sc_err=noocs\">Dell Latitude\u003c/a> 10” Tablet (call for pricing)\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_31119\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-31119\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/09/en-INTL_L_Dell_Latitude_10_CWF-01015_RM7_mnco-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"en-INTL_L_Dell_Latitude_10_CWF-01015_RM7_mnco\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\" dir=\"ltr\">Dell’s tablet computer, which runs on Windows 8 and contains Intel Inside processors, promises much of the same technology as other large-brand tablets - WiFi, cameras, touch-screen technology as well as Microsoft Office Home and Student. 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"content": "\u003cdiv id=\"attachment_31002\" class=\"module image center mceTemp\" style=\"width: 640px;\">\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://education.mit.edu/projects/radix-endeavor\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-31002\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Radix2.jpg\" alt=\"Radix2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Radix2.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Radix2-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Radix2-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">MIT Education Arcade\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As the buzz around \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/tag/games/\">games and learning\u003c/a> continues to grow, one particular subset -- Massive Open Online (MMO) games -- is catching the attention of educators as a particularly interesting way to encourage students to collaborate, problem solve, create and think for themselves within a game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the most popular MMOs is World of Warcraft, in which many players log in to the online game at the same time and play while interacting with people all over the world. But, although teachers have found ways to use commercial games like \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/03/world-of-warcraft-finds-its-way-into-class/\">World of Warcraft for educational purposes\u003c/a>, it wasn't originally designed with teachers in mind. Now, a group of researchers in \u003ca href=\"http://education.mit.edu/projects\">MIT’s Education Arcade\u003c/a> are trying to harness the power of MMO games to teach high school students to think like scientists and mathematicians. 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"content": "\u003cp>For those parents and teachers looking for apps for middle-schoolers, check out the five apps below that feature everything from Mayan numbers to cracking secret codes.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>1. \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mayanumbers/id658863945\">MayaNumbers\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>. 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It's tricky, too -- the Mayans used a base-20 system for counting as opposed to the standard base-10 we use today, so players will need to change the way they think just a bit and \"forget\" the 1s, 10s, and 100s places used in today's math and replace it with 1s, 20s, and 400s. The colors and graphics for MayaNumbers are eye-catching -- not surprising considering that Dig-It! Games was founded by Suzi Wilczynski, a professional archaeologist and former middle-school teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>\u003cstrong>2. \u003ca href=\"http://www.spinlight.com/apps/codesquad.html\">Operation Math Code Squad.\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>$2.99\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-30897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/mzl.ldqhzrin.480x480-75-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"mzl.ldqhzrin.480x480-75\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Although this app is recommended for ages 6-12, it's still a solid math testing app even for older kids. Up to four players can play at once, each taking the role of a secret agent hoping to foil Dr. Odd plan to rid the world of math. 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Free\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30894\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 140px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-30894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/V4HttpAssetRepositoryClient-mzl.oarmujmy.png-7750578099826511819.320x480-75-140x140.jpg\" alt=\"V4HttpAssetRepositoryClient-mzl.oarmujmy.png-7750578099826511819.320x480-75\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to a brief historical explanation of how the Mayan people performed math calculations, this app offers up a simple game that will have players using tap, swipe, and tap-and-hold gestures to add dots, dashes, and shells to represent 1, 5, and 0 (zero), the three numbers used by Mayans for addition (and a form of multiplication). 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But he soon found out that, in order to use iBooks and iBooks Author, teachers would have to use Apple Pages and literally build the textbooks themselves. “It was a very clunky process,” he said. “iBooks Author is really good, but as far as a K-12 model it doesn’t really fit, because you have to build a textbook. It can be done, but that’s a lot to put on the teacher. Time is always the adversary, it takes time to build these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcinek sees no reason why Google Play for Education wouldn’t be popular with educators, because many schools are already using other Google products and management tools like Google Docs and Google Drive, as well as Chromebooks. All the pieces -- content creation, management, email and educational apps -- will fit together. “What I do like about Google is that it’s all-inclusive. 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But while Vardis was proud of what her fourth graders were able to do on the iPad, she also thinks that working on the Apple tablet had its limitations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One frustration, she said, was the lack of a flash player to watch certain videos in class. Vardis also recalls students trying to use multiple apps at the same time in order to create a complex video for an assignment: “You can’t have multiple windows side by side. 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[The work] was not tangible once the school year was over.” The poetry ebooks the students worked so hard on were only available via the screen on the school’s iPads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these issues might be solved by using a Google/Android tablet; there's a \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gpc.myweb.hinet.net.PopupWeb&hl=en\">free Floating Browser\u003c/a> app on Google Play for opening multiple windows, and \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appsverse.photon\">Android can also support Flash\u003c/a>. And while many Google Play for Education learning apps may or may not be able to be saved into a PDF or printed on paper, smooth transfer between Google Docs and Gmail might make saving student work easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Whether Google Play for Education and the Android tablets will be as useful and revolutionary to schools as the iPad -- or even more so -- remains to be seen. 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But he soon found out that, in order to use iBooks and iBooks Author, teachers would have to use Apple Pages and literally build the textbooks themselves. “It was a very clunky process,” he said. “iBooks Author is really good, but as far as a K-12 model it doesn’t really fit, because you have to build a textbook. It can be done, but that’s a lot to put on the teacher. Time is always the adversary, it takes time to build these.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcinek sees no reason why Google Play for Education wouldn’t be popular with educators, because many schools are already using other Google products and management tools like Google Docs and Google Drive, as well as Chromebooks. All the pieces -- content creation, management, email and educational apps -- will fit together. “What I do like about Google is that it’s all-inclusive. The majority of teachers have a PC, a few have a MacBook, but for the teacher who has a PC and doesn’t have the Mac products, iTunes U can’t be used.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003ch5>Tablets In Education\u003c/h5>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan style=\"color: #666699\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/the-future-of-tablets-in-education-potential-vs-reality/\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #666699\">The Future of Tablets in Education: Potential Vs. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30500\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-30500\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Tynker.jpg\" alt=\"Tynker\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Tynker.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Tynker-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/Tynker-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">As the conversation about education shifts towards helping students develop useful skills in life beyond the classroom, a new spotlight on computer coding has emerged. Kids are impressing adults with their creativity, with their facility in learning new technologies, and their ability to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/07/joan-ganz-cooney-center-stem-game-based-learning/\">design challenging video games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More and more, parents are beginning to see \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/why-programming-teaches-so-much-more-than-technical-skills/\">computer science and programming as the key to success\u003c/a> for their children. And like other foreign languages, even if the child doesn’t grow up to be a computer programmer, learning to code can yield many other benefits, the thinking goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tools like \u003ca href=\"http://scratch.mit.edu/\">Scratch\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.alice.org/index.php\">Alice\u003c/a> have been around to help kids code for several years, but now commercial products are starting to compete, offering sleek new platforms focused on teaching how to think like a computer programmer. \u003ca href=\"http://www.tynker.com/\">Tynker\u003c/a> is one such newcomer, and the founders hope its easy-to-use product can capture both educational and commercial users. On Tuesday, Tynker released its \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.tynker.com/#course101\">at-home package,\u003c/a>\" a 16-week immersive course for elementary and middle-school aged kids that costs $50 and doesn’t require any adult intervention.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“What most kids have is this creativity in their heads and they just want to put it out there.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tynker is hoping that parents will see the value in teaching kids to code to invest in the course and access to Tynker’s tools. “Ultimately our question is, do kids love this,” said Krishna Vedati, CEO of Tynker and a successful start-up entrepreneur several times over. “Teachers and parents are channels for us. Our customers, if I were to use the word, are kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tynker breaks programming down into visual blocks that teach concepts like animation in simple steps. “This is a visual programming language, so we eliminated the syntax,” Vedati said. Kids see different colored blocks that represent different steps in computational thinking. For example, in the animation lesson, a child learns that she needs an actor and an event to make a puppy bark. She isn’t seeing scary lines of JavaScript, she’s seeing friendly colored boxes labeled with their functions and she’s learning the order and logic to those functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/why-programming-teaches-so-much-more-than-technical-skills/\">Why Coding Teaches So Much More Than Technical Skills\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These constructs actually translate to any major programming language,” Vedati said. “As [students] get to middle grades they don’t see the visual block anymore, they just get an editor.” Then students have to begin creating their own syntax, with the ability to toggle back and forth between text and visual views so they can see what they're creating. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30450\" class=\"wp-caption center\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/arts-education/key-research/Documents/New-Opportunities-for-Interest-Driven-Arts-Learning-in-a-Digital-Age.pdf\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-30450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/WallaceFoundation.jpg\" alt=\"WallaceFoundation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/WallaceFoundation.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/WallaceFoundation-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/WallaceFoundation-320x180.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">The average teenager consumes about 10 hours of media per day according to a Kaiser Family Foundation \u003ca href=\"http://kff.org/other/event/generation-m2-media-in-the-lives-of/\">report\u003c/a>, and that's often through a gadget like smartphone or tablet. But depending on what we choose to focus on, that's not necessarily a bad thing. The same devices that are used to consume art have also allowed students to create on their own, often with little instruction or direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This trend of interest-driven art creation comes at a time when public schools are cutting art programming, and it offers a promising new way to reach and mold budding artists.\u003cbr>\n“A lot of times we think we need to have programs that cultivate learning in the art form, but what we are finding is that through the continued production of art, and reflection on it, the kids are actually improving their skills over time,” said \u003ca href=\"http://portal.education.indiana.edu/ProfilePlaceHolder/tabid/6210/Default.aspx?u=kpeppler\">Kylie Peppler\u003c/a>, assistant professor of learning sciences at Indiana University. She wrote a report for the Wallace Foundation called \u003ca href=\"http://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/arts-education/key-research/Documents/New-Opportunities-for-Interest-Driven-Arts-Learning-in-a-Digital-Age.pdf\">New Opportunities for Interest Driven Art in a Digital Age\u003c/a>. The study finds that even without formal training, self-driven youth are developing the same habits of mind that they would under formal instruction -- they just don’t realize they’re doing it. Their creation is spontaneous, self-taught and often quite good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peppler found that as kids are playing around on their devices, the play is transferring into real skills, in part because many devices come with easy-to-use creation tools that offer a low barrier to entry. Furthermore, informal art-based activities have been found to transfer to real skills. Kids who played the video game Rock Band, for example, could sight read and transcribe traditional notation based on their experiences. And exposure to various art forms prompted them to seek formal training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the very first time, kids enrolled in free violin lessons,” Peppler said. Once they got interested in music through Rock Band, they took advantage of free or low cost learning opportunities in their communities. Their video games helped them discover a new passion for music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art forms are fundamentally an expression of human nature, some of them become a formalized program, but most of them emerge outside of that,” Peppler said. She found that much of the interest-based art happening outside of school is rooted in community and identity. She cites the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xexHjxBaV0\">krump dance movement\u003c/a> in Los Angeles as an example of a unique art form that emerged around the time of the Watts Riots because people wanted to congregate in a non-violent way. “It was something that just emerged out of the localized need as part of expression,” Peppler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/paint-or-paint-app-value-of-creating-digital-vs-traditional-art/\">Paint or Paint App? Value of Creating Digital Vs. Traditional Art\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Art production is fundamentally a social process, so whether it’s gathering in your living room or online, that kind of production is happening,” Peppler said. For lower-income students, physical space is often still important to art production because not everyone has access to the technology to participate in an online community. “It looks different in every community, but it’s there,” Peppler said. By being plugged into those communities youth have a chance to see what’s out there and how they can participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has vastly enhanced the kinds of communities for young people to discover. There are online communities for art producers in every field and often professionals participate by critiquing members' posts or becoming mentors to those just starting out in a discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Art production is fundamentally a social process, so whether it’s gathering in your living room or online that kind of production is happening.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The internet and social media offers a live audience for work students create, motivating them to innovate, revise, and improve their skills. Peppler said while artistic communities of all types have long existed, it’s only now that researchers are hearing about them through social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peppler’s research on the fertile artistic community that technology has helped enable has interesting implications for more formal education programs. Peppler offered some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. Art education should be based around the idea of the portfolio, a common evaluation tool in art fields. When students see the work they do both in and outside of class as contributing to a broader repository of work useful for demonstrating skill, assignments mean more. Students are already building up these sorts of digital portfolios and teachers should ask about seeing them and helping add to them. “Kids are shy; they aren’t sure [their art] is going to be welcome,” Peppler said. “They may not be forthcoming with what they are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">2. Teachers can also use technology to find students interested in more formal art programs and to connect them to resources. Students are online, talking and creating and teachers need to meet them where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">3. Another key way that art education could change is by providing more open studio-type space to youth. There are plenty of organizations already conducting programming in this way and they should be replicated. “Having a physical location where kids can come and hang out when they don’t really have that outside of their homes is really important,” Peppler said. “I just wouldn’t want that to look like structured programs. Kids want to produce, but they don’t want to be told what to produce or how.” Allowing that freedom of expression within the formal environment could be essential to linking the knowledge a teacher offers to the passion-based approach with which students became interested in learning a skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">4. Teachers need to think of art and technology as a space for co-discovery, approaching a collaborative environment with students without fear. “It’s a difference between seeing ourselves teaching only the things we have expertise about versus being a learner along with the kids,” Peppler said. She pointed out that it’s a win for teachers because they can learn new technologies in a low-stress environment, but feel secure that they will still offer important advice on the formal component of art that students can’t pick up through tech tutorials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/sosodaydreamart/8414244830/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/8414244830_430e903163_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"8414244830_430e903163_z\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASE STUDIES THAT WORK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/\">Digital Youth Network\u003c/a> in Chicago is one effective model that Peppler recommends more schools and programs replicate. They’ve done a good job of integrating new technologies and student passions into the classes they offer. The program is in its eighth year of working within schools, after school and pushing art into the home. The program leverages students’ love of technology and passion for it to help them continue to create on their own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge is how you look at all these things that are bubbling up on their own and look more intentionally to design supports for that,” said Akili Lee, co-founder of Digital Youth Network. His goal is to teach basic media creation skills like podcasting, game design, animation and video production with depth and breadth. The program doesn’t just focus on the tools, though; its broader intent is to give youth outlets to express identity and to form supportive communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said when a student shows passion for something he’s never heard of, the best course of action is to support that interest. For example, one of his students, Jaylin, was taking a video production class and became curious about other kinds of video. He started exploring anime music videos, a sub-genre of video that shows anime clips edited together to a background of popular music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/sesame-street-meets-the-app-age-how-to-nurture-creative-learning/\">Sesame Street Meets the App Age: How to Nurture Creative Learning\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would go off into these other online communities and develop his skills,” Lee said. Jaylin became an expert in anime music videos by creating on his own time, posting his videos to online communities and getting feedback. He then brought his passion back to school and got other students hooked on the peculiar genre. He made himself influential in that space through his excitement about it. His passion led him to develop even stronger video production and editing skills than the basics he’d learned in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lee watched his students interacting through the program’s website late at night and on weekends, as well as in separate online communities, he realized Digital Youth Network could better support its students by reaching them where the discussion was already happening. “The online space gives authentic audience and feedback for students,” Lee said. They could see the process of how to get from where they were to where they wanted to go more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital Youth Network developed\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/6-online/pages/19-remix-world\"> Remix World\u003c/a>, a social learning network based on how kids were interacting on social media. The network is integrated into every class; students share work, resources and feedback through the tool. It also allows the students from schools all over Chicago working in a similar medium or on a common topic to support one another 24 hours a day. The network extends the work that goes on in workshops, but is sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiences of Lee and his students at Digital Youth Network help corroborate Peppler’s finding about the power of technology outside the classroom and how it could be leveraged to better recognize and make use of student talent developing apart from formal instruction.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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By being plugged into those communities youth have a chance to see what’s out there and how they can participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Technology has vastly enhanced the kinds of communities for young people to discover. There are online communities for art producers in every field and often professionals participate by critiquing members' posts or becoming mentors to those just starting out in a discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Art production is fundamentally a social process, so whether it’s gathering in your living room or online that kind of production is happening.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The internet and social media offers a live audience for work students create, motivating them to innovate, revise, and improve their skills. Peppler said while artistic communities of all types have long existed, it’s only now that researchers are hearing about them through social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peppler’s research on the fertile artistic community that technology has helped enable has interesting implications for more formal education programs. Peppler offered some highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. Art education should be based around the idea of the portfolio, a common evaluation tool in art fields. When students see the work they do both in and outside of class as contributing to a broader repository of work useful for demonstrating skill, assignments mean more. Students are already building up these sorts of digital portfolios and teachers should ask about seeing them and helping add to them. “Kids are shy; they aren’t sure [their art] is going to be welcome,” Peppler said. “They may not be forthcoming with what they are doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">2. Teachers can also use technology to find students interested in more formal art programs and to connect them to resources. Students are online, talking and creating and teachers need to meet them where they are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">3. Another key way that art education could change is by providing more open studio-type space to youth. There are plenty of organizations already conducting programming in this way and they should be replicated. “Having a physical location where kids can come and hang out when they don’t really have that outside of their homes is really important,” Peppler said. “I just wouldn’t want that to look like structured programs. Kids want to produce, but they don’t want to be told what to produce or how.” Allowing that freedom of expression within the formal environment could be essential to linking the knowledge a teacher offers to the passion-based approach with which students became interested in learning a skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"padding-left: 30px\">4. Teachers need to think of art and technology as a space for co-discovery, approaching a collaborative environment with students without fear. “It’s a difference between seeing ourselves teaching only the things we have expertise about versus being a learner along with the kids,” Peppler said. She pointed out that it’s a win for teachers because they can learn new technologies in a low-stress environment, but feel secure that they will still offer important advice on the formal component of art that students can’t pick up through tech tutorials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30490\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/sosodaydreamart/8414244830/sizes/z/in/photostream/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30490\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/8414244830_430e903163_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"8414244830_430e903163_z\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASE STUDIES THAT WORK\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/\">Digital Youth Network\u003c/a> in Chicago is one effective model that Peppler recommends more schools and programs replicate. They’ve done a good job of integrating new technologies and student passions into the classes they offer. The program is in its eighth year of working within schools, after school and pushing art into the home. The program leverages students’ love of technology and passion for it to help them continue to create on their own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge is how you look at all these things that are bubbling up on their own and look more intentionally to design supports for that,” said Akili Lee, co-founder of Digital Youth Network. His goal is to teach basic media creation skills like podcasting, game design, animation and video production with depth and breadth. The program doesn’t just focus on the tools, though; its broader intent is to give youth outlets to express identity and to form supportive communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said when a student shows passion for something he’s never heard of, the best course of action is to support that interest. For example, one of his students, Jaylin, was taking a video production class and became curious about other kinds of video. He started exploring anime music videos, a sub-genre of video that shows anime clips edited together to a background of popular music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/05/sesame-street-meets-the-app-age-how-to-nurture-creative-learning/\">Sesame Street Meets the App Age: How to Nurture Creative Learning\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would go off into these other online communities and develop his skills,” Lee said. Jaylin became an expert in anime music videos by creating on his own time, posting his videos to online communities and getting feedback. He then brought his passion back to school and got other students hooked on the peculiar genre. He made himself influential in that space through his excitement about it. His passion led him to develop even stronger video production and editing skills than the basics he’d learned in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lee watched his students interacting through the program’s website late at night and on weekends, as well as in separate online communities, he realized Digital Youth Network could better support its students by reaching them where the discussion was already happening. “The online space gives authentic audience and feedback for students,” Lee said. They could see the process of how to get from where they were to where they wanted to go more easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Digital Youth Network developed\u003ca href=\"http://www.digitalyouthnetwork.org/6-online/pages/19-remix-world\"> Remix World\u003c/a>, a social learning network based on how kids were interacting on social media. The network is integrated into every class; students share work, resources and feedback through the tool. It also allows the students from schools all over Chicago working in a similar medium or on a common topic to support one another 24 hours a day. The network extends the work that goes on in workshops, but is sustainable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_30442\" class=\"wp-caption left\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/carbonnyc/2965625438/sizes/z/in/photolist-5w4B85-7MMSrV-5wfvuz-6F4BWe-7NsqBg-3KEtA3-48LiYC-48GhuV-9QBbkU-3KEu5G-cg3Pqy-aM7YwV-aM81MV-aM7Vjn-aM7WAt-aM7YkD-aM7Z9R-aM8hje-aM7YNr-aM7VFv-aM7YXT-aM8gZF-aM7ZRc-aM81hR-4o7VTv-aM7XRM-arCySU-4Cq6Uj-69ZUuT-6a55Bq-6a55Fb-6a54Ud-69ZUwz-6a54T9-6a55DN-69ZUzx-6a54WA-69ZUBi-6a55AC-6a55Eq-6a552G-6a556h-7PA8iQ-69ZUhR-7PA7Fw-7Pw8vK-9evXmp-t4Bq-euZj1T-5F1T9s-7s7dUT/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-30442\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2013/08/2965625438_266e481d09_z-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"2965625438_266e481d09_z\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"dropcap-serif\">As the field of ed-tech has grown, research around the efficacy of technology has been hard to come by. Part of the difficulty is finding accurate comparisons because schools, administrations, districts and student populations across the country have their own individual sets of criteria and challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://carnegielearning.isebox.net/algebra-effectiveness/study/\">recent report by the RAND\u003c/a> Corporation, in partnership with the Department of Education, tries to provide an objective overview of blended learning. RAND conducted a national two-year randomized trial to determine whether a blended learning curriculum developed by \u003ca href=\"http://www.carnegielearning.com/\">Carnegie Learning, Inc\u003c/a>. had a positive effect on middle and high school algebra students. The report found that the curriculum, which included both instruction time on computers and in-person, improved high school performance by 8 percentile points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the study, RAND reached out to schools in rural, urban and suburban areas and included students living in high-poverty areas, places with high populations of ethnic minorities and every other kind of school. By choosing a diverse population of more than 18,000 students in 147 schools in seven states, the aim of the study was to ensure that the results could be applied to schools in any environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens a disappointing amount of time is you don’t find significant effects,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/about/people/p/pane_john_f.html\">John Pane, senior scientist at RAND\u003c/a> and lead researcher for the study. “So to have identified something that is educationally meaningful is a success. Everything we did was with an eye to not interfering with how schools normally operate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the study, participating schools were given access to the software and teachers were trained without any additional supports, just as they would be if a school purchased the software on its own. Most restricted studies using certain products, Pane said, provide extra professional development or support, skewing the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/how-teachers-mix-online-math-with-classroom-instruction/\">How Teachers Mix Online Math With Classroom Instruction\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DOE chose to study Carnegie Learning’s curriculum because of its track record of success in 46 other non-randomized studies. “We've done a large amount of field research coming into this that suggested that this approach would work better than others,” said Steve Ritter, chief product architect at Carnegie Learning. The company is an offshoot of cognitive psychology research at Carnegie Mellon dating back to the late 1980s. This curriculum has been in use since 1998. Its long track record is what prompted this expansive and expensive study. It cost $6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other blended learning curriculum the Carnegie Learning approach relies on software to supplement teacher instruction. “We ask students to do a lot of writing about math, solving real world problems,” Ritter said. The company recommends using software two days a week and in-class instruction three days a week because things like classroom interaction, group discussion, collaborating on problem-solving helps cement the learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“The real goal is for students to learn math well enough to solve math problems in the real world they live in, not on tests.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PROGRAM DETAILS\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program itself asks students to solve long multi-step problems. The software tracks the student’s problem-solving strategies and gives feedback on the process along the way. “In our system we ask the student to show their work to the computer,” Ritter said. The curriculum also recommends in-class instruction focused on small group work, articulating the problem solving process and even writing in the textbook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algebra is the focus of study, Ritter said, because it’s a moment in math education where students often fall behind. “Algebra is the place where math goes from being concrete to abstract,” Ritter said. He pointed out that it’s an essential skill to making quantitative predictions about the world, a skill required for statistics, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But although students in the treatment group did improve, RAND could not definitively link that improvement to the software used. “Teaching was different in Carnegie Learning classrooms than in the control group classrooms; we can say that,” Pane said. “We can’t tell if it’s the software or something happening in the classroom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"color: #808080\">[RELATED: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/01/what-online-tools-work-for-language-arts/\">What Online Tools Work For Teaching Language Arts?\u003c/a>]\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a different study, RAND hopes to drill down on data from the software itself to find out its direct impact. 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