Academic Success Partner of the Month

What is 

Singularity 

and Why Is It So Important For Our Students?

 

Featured in the title of the recent best-seller by acclaimed futurist and thinker Ray Kurzweil, the term Singularity  is now being used to describe a reality in which human beings become optimally aligned with technology in order to take personal and career achievement to new heights.

With computers, tablets and other mobile devices functioning as a core element in our kids' education, the future has indeed arrived. Students are now expected to achieve their own optimal version of Singularity.

But how best to merge and coordinate this incredible technology in order to achieve the greatest success?

In this month's issue, we'll take a two-pronged approach to the topic: 

• In Education News, we'll present remarkable reports from here and around the world of students and educators getting together to maximize technology in the quest for academic success. 

• In our Study Tip section, we'll present 5 of our favorite "Singularity Apps" that we believe have the power to transform not only a student's work habits, but also their academic results. 

All the best,

Jamie

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

                                        - Winston Churchill

No Child Left Untableted

  

This recent, in-depth New York Times magazine report details the most recent changes occurring in our education system: changing the way teachers do their job through the creation of an academic workflow, built around cutting-edge software. 

 

A Fusion Of Design, Business and Education

As funding for technology in our schools increases, it will be critical to get the educational and interactive balance right in our classrooms. This fascinating round-table discussion on Huffpost Live brings together experts on the subject to explore what might happen when teachers and students are looking at their screens more than each other.  

In the small rural town of L'Hay-Les Roses, just outside of Paris, a classroom of underprivileged French third-graders are participating in an experiment that will likely spread throughout the rest of the country: tackling their entire syllabus with the aid of their tablet and a teacher trained to work in harmony with the latest technology.

With mobile devices now tailored specifically to kids and their academic lives, tablets like the XO are taking students to another level while also acting as fun motivational tools to keep striving for success. This up-to-the-minute article helps kids and parents get the most out of their digital tools.

The US Department of Education has declared October to be "Connected Educator Month". With that in mind, this elementary school principal and author shares his dreams for a dynamic future: a day in which every student - and teacher - works with a tablet in a fully connected classroom.