{"id":1478,"date":"2012-02-23T16:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2012-02-22T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T20:44:58","slug":"byte-sized-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/byte-sized-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Byte-Sized #9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>iPads for kindergartners? Who would have thought? Well, a school board in Maine tried it out and found pre-reading kids benefitting from their use. They gave about 130 kids an iPad each to use for 9 weeks in class and compared their improvements to about 130 kids who didn&#8217;t get one. &#8220;In every measure we examined, the iPad students were outperforming the comparison students. When looking at short-term literacy gains, we&#8217;re definitely seeing the data trending toward favoring the iPad students.&#8221; concluded one of the researchers. Read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2012\/02\/16\/education\/report-says-giving-ipads-to-auburn-kindergartners-increases-test-scores\/\">here<\/a> (2.30 minutes max) and see what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPads for kindergartners? Who would have thought? Well, a school board in Maine tried it out and found pre-reading kids benefitting from their use. They gave about 130 kids an iPad each to use for 9 weeks in class and compared their improvements to about 130 kids who didn&#8217;t get one. &#8220;In every measure we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-byte-sized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}