In depth look at a mobile device in the classroom

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The teachermate is a handheld computer, like a Nintendo Gameboy or a Sony PSP, and they have been in use in Chicago public school classrooms for the past school year. The Teachers' Podcast did a review of the device last month. A couple weeks ago I got the opportunity to see ...

Just another inexpensive computer for education?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The Teachermate is targeted at kindergarden through third grade. The XO laptop is designed to be easy to learn for kids of all ages around the world Intel's Classmate is slightly more powerful than the XO, but lacks custom software. A new low-cost handheld computer called the Teachermate was introduced in March by ...