Category Archives: aLEAP

Making Progress with eBook

I’m making progress again with my eBook. That’s why posts have been fewer recently. It’s really several books under one title, a collection of cleaned up observations, notes and suggestions for using advancing technologies to increase learning. And, yes, it … Continue reading

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Review with aLEAP of ChemBook Videos for High Schools

LPH has posted a series of videos made during his high school intro chemistry class. I’ve clicked through several of them to test the utility of aLEAP to assess instruction. First, I didn’t realize how much chem I remembered, and … Continue reading

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$2B to Implement Five Design Principles for Smarter Ed Data Systems

In the past decade, school districts and states have spent more than a billion dollars to build and implement data systems about student learning. They will probably spend another billion in the next five years. According to Education Sector Managing … Continue reading

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Thanks for Checking Back

I want to thank each of you for checking back for updates about Tablet PC Education. The extended delay, I think, is over. During that time, I’ve outlined more steps, lists, charts, tables, and figures for software developers to automate … Continue reading

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Enterprising Instruction with Enterprise Resource Planning

Use of business enterprise style, data-driven instruction expands in public schools, thanks in part to encouragement from the US Department of Education for such management of learning as part of school reform. Electronic technology helps a growing number of educators … Continue reading

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Enhanced Daily Learning Plan

The Enhanced Daily Learning Plan describes three (3) steps to use aLEAP (a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm) to organize a lesson. The plan is based on relationships among research findings about how people learn described in aLEAP. It permits teachers … Continue reading

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Pattern Variables of Learning: Abstract of 2nd Dimension of aLEAP

This installment of aLEAP (A Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm) offers the abstract draft of Pattern Variables of Learning. This project leads to an automatic analysis of learning efficiency with Tablet and other mobile PCs. The second dimension of aLEAP consists … Continue reading

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aLEAP Toward Automatic Learning Analysis with Tablet PCs:

This installment describes another step toward a proof-of-concept narrative of a Learning Efficiency Analysis Paradigm (aLEAP). It describes the kind of scientific data used to assemble an infrastructure of behavior pattern choice points and options learners use to meet learning … Continue reading

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Learning with Tablet PCs – A Glossary 2.0.1

Preface This glossary includes descriptions that address the question, “What do people do to learn?” It gives priority to describing behavior patterns of people as they learn, sometimes with Tablet and other mobile PCs in and out of schools. These … Continue reading

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aLEAP and Monetized Learning

State minimum academic performance standards provide a useful step toward monetizing learning. Teachers have opposed these two indices of public school learning. I have opposed them also, partly because they limit convenient instructional work-arounds. Yet, we all know that we … Continue reading

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