EdTech: Five Smart Ways to Do 1:1 Tablet Deployments
My latest piece -- about ways districts can make smart decisions before giving everyone tablets -- is out from the Harvard Education Letter.
Basically, the advice I got from places like Roslyn, Mooresville, McAllen, and Burlington (MA) boiled down to getting very clear about why you're doing this and what you expect to be different in classrooms because of the devices, holding off (or at least piloting) before making big purchases, and making sure to have enough bandwidth and WiFi access to let all those devices work at roughly the same time.
Click here if you feel like checking it out.