Educause Review Online has published a study by David Michael Ruth, Thomas M. Mastre, and Ron Fricker. In this study, students at two military colleges were surveyed about their ownership and use of mobile devices. It was determined that a majority of students were interested in mobile learning opportunities and owned such devices; tthis population was also interested in access course materials and related information online. The authors noted that…

ICT in Education shares the interesting case study Finborough School, a small private “all-through” (ages 2-18) school located in rural England. Finborough successfully introduced a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program to serve students with special learning needs. 

At Clintondale High School (Michigan, U.S.), 74% of students qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch program, 38% receive special-education services, and 70% are members of a racial minority group. Two years ago, the school’s failure rate was as high as 61%. In this Getting Smart post, Clintondale’s principal Greg Green tells the story of his school’s turnaround via the flipped-classroom model. 

This U.S. Department of Education blog post profiles the rapid turnaround progress at Emerson Elementary School, which serves the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas. Just three years ago, Emerson was identified as the lowest-performing school in Kansas and was awarded a grant through the School Improvement Grants  program to implement one of four turnaround models. At Emerson, where 90% of the students are eligible for free or reduced priced lunches, approximately…

THE Journal describes how a middle school in Washington, D.C., is using blended learning to help raise student proficiency and engagement. This is a promising story, as the school in question is one of the worst performing schools in the district.

Worldreader profiles the e-reader program at Kenya’s Menara Primary School, where the technology is giving students and teachers instant access to information to make classrooms and learning more efficient, effective, and fun. The programs more than 500 students with access to more than 40 e-readers loaded with 200+ Kenyan textbooks, storybooks by African authors, international classics, and interactive learning tools. While the longer-term vision is to get more devices into student…

Converge profiles Arlington County, Virginia (U.S.), which has taken its first major steps on a fiber-optic network that will support education, emergency management, and other government use. Specific to education, through the new ConnectArlington network, the county’s public schools will be able to take advantage of Internet2 for distance learning. At no cost, students will be able to communicate with teachers and access electronic textbooks and online courses from wireless hot…

In a quest to keep up with student demand, Kingsborough Community College constantly added computers to labs–but the Brooklyn, New York, college could never keep up. Increasingly, faculty members want students to do research, build e-portfolios, and take assessments in class–but while they tried to use wireless laptop carts, they lost 10 to 15 minutes of instruction time just setting them up.    As profiled in this Converge case study,…