Dec 15 2008
N810 makes learning personal
With so many assessments scheduled for the end of term, it’s not been the best time to try to work with the N810. However, I put it to good use today with a pupil who needed some help with a section of work that had been missed through illness. I updated the tablet with all of the screencasts I had uploaded to my site by resynchronising the tablet’s RSS reader with my feedburner feed. Then a quick run through the controls of the default media player was all I needed before letting him work through the solutions he had missed at his own pace. He used headphones to get the running commentary as the work progressed.
Now, I could have set him down in front of a laptop. The problem is that you can’t be very discrete with a laptop. The tablet sits half hidden by a jotter and allowed him to catch up on work without feeling self-conscious. Seems like it is a great tool for personalised learning.