Devices for learning
Offer students multi-modal learning through voice, touch, and digital ink, and increase their ability to retain information, generate new ideas, and use real-world software.
Devices for Learning is about selecting devices that provide superior value and support for learning. Powerful devices can run real-world software, prepare students for life beyond school, and enable rich 3D learning experiences not available on simple web content and apps.
Mobility is the new norm, affecting everything from the devices students, educators, and staff use to the applications and data they access. Selecting the right devices for learning enables a school to deliver lessons that are increasingly engaging and personalized. The right devices can also enable real-time feedback and adaptive assessment and are crucial to the development of critical thinking and collaborative learning.
A device can either greatly enhance or seriously undermine student learning. It makes sense that different subjects and students require different interfaces, including touch, type, pen, and voice. Two-in-one tablet/PC devices with an active pen, like Surface, give educators the freedom to teach the way they want and empower students to achieve more while stimulating learning through exploration.
Read Elementary school district brings Surface Go to early childhood education to better understand the role that the right device and platform can have to attain a learning environment that puts students at the center.
What is the value of having a digital pen as part of the device package?
Read the research on the effects digital input has on the brain.
In the ongoing pursuit of finding the best device for learning, consider the research conducted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Researchers spent years trying to understand the impact of pen versus keyboard input and its connection to a student's ability to learn.
Windows Ink brings lessons to life by giving students and educators powerful tools to handwrite notes, annotate documents, and sketch out their next big idea.
Getting the funding and choosing the right device is the first hurdle. The second hurdle is how to keep all of the devices updated and running at their optimal level. Davis School District in the United States uses Intune for Education to deploy and maintain the safety, security, and integrity of each device and its applications.
Read Taking the high road to remote and hybrid learning at Davis School District.
How will your work with your leadership team ensure that students engage in multi-modal learning through voice, touch, and digital ink and increase their ability to retain information, generate new ideas, and use real-world software to graduate with skills employers in your community and around the world are looking for?
Use the checklists to assist the leadership team in making device recommendations for students.
- How can learning outcomes be improved with carefully selected devices for learning?
- How will devices for learning transform the role of an educator?
- How might devices for learning impact literacy and numeracy?