{"id":908,"date":"2013-11-30T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2014-01-31T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T16:46:23","slug":"digital-moneysaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/archives\/908","title":{"rendered":"Save money and improve teaching in the Digital School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Digital content saves money and liberates the teacher<\/p>\n

Digital content can be updated continuously \u2013 and delivered instantly and far more cheaply than printed content. It can be embedded with video, hyperlinks, animations and individualised, self checking tests.<\/p>\n

The savings may even pay for the necessary infrastructure. Indeed more than one US school district is raising bonds to borrow money for pay for interactive whiteboards and iPad-style tablets for all their students \u2013 which the districts calculate will be repaid from savings on text books and materials.<\/p>\n

Inspirational teachers produce motivated learners. Digital learning makes it possible for every classroom teacher to access inspiring pictures and animations and enlist the online support of a national \u2018master teacher\u2019 in his or her subject. And that second, possibly different way of explaining a subject \u2013 that virtual \u2018learning support assistant\u2019 \u2013 may be just the difference that makes the difference.<\/p>\n

Digital learning can liberate the teacher. Blended learning \u2013 or its advanced version \u2018flipped learning\u2019 or \u2018180-degree learning\u2019 \u2013 calls for the basic facts and information to be learned by the student on his or her own, online via his tablet or computer.<\/p>\n

When students come to the classroom, the teacher\u2019s role is then to correct any misunderstandings, provoke discussion and extend and enrich the students\u2019 knowledge. She becomes a guide rather than an instructor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital content saves money and liberates the teacher Digital content can be updated continuously \u2013 and delivered instantly and far more cheaply than printed content. It can be embedded with video, hyperlinks, animations and individualised, self checking tests. The savings may even pay for the necessary infrastructure. Indeed more than one US school district is … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acceleratedlearning.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}