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Why I use the AlphaSmart 3000 in the classroom

Using AlphaSmart in a Middle School
by Caroline Coster
I am ICT co-ordinator at Henlow Middle School, but first encountered AlphaSmarts before taking up this post. Even at that stage I could see their potential, particularly when Dirk [Dirk Foch, General Manager of AlphaSmart Europe] demonstrated how the machine could be dropped with no ill effects! When I learnt the price I was astounded. Read more...

From sceptic to convert
by Tricia Lockhart
When I took up my first Head of Department post, the SEN co-ordinator had just bought a few Alphasmarts for some of our special pupils - mainly dyslexics. I had been sceptical, but as this was a fait accompli, I decided to investigate. Read more...

I use the AlphaSmart because I want electronic text - not torture by technology!
Maggie Wagstaff SEN & Inclusion team, BECTA

The Global ICT Village: The German Experience by Dirk Foch
The use of Information Communications Technology (ICT) in teaching has been firmly placed at the top of the education agenda in the UK. The government has already begun investing £1.8bn in the National Grid for Learning initiative and more recently Estelle Morris unveiled the government's vision of the 'Classroom of the Future'. The argument on the benefits that ICT can bring to teaching seems to have been won in the UK at a governmental level, but problems still remain in making this vision a practical reality in our schools. Read more...

 
Neos, Danas and AlphaSmart 3000's count towards NGfL's computer to pupil ratio!
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In accepting NGfL Standards Fund grant in 2001-02 LEAs have committed themselves to achieving a minimum threshold of access to ICT in all of their schools by 2002. NGfL funding will also be available in 2002-03 to help complete this process.

Portable and handheld computers, that are not capable of supporting current multimedia and networking functionality but which serve a purpose in specific teaching areas such as word-processing, stand-alone applications, control and data logging such as AlphaSmart 3000 and Dana, are included in the computer to pupil ratios. Therefore AlphaSmart products are a cost effective and versatile way of addressing pupil access to computers.

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