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Handhelds in Education

This is a section for using handheld computers in the classroom in general. Handheld computers can be used for class activities along with teachers' use for assessment. This section includes resources for handhelds in education and sample projects.

Articles of Using Handhelds for Education

• SEIR-TEC Newsletter: Using handheld technologies in education (2002): This is a very comprehensive report about handhelds in K-12. This report also provides many examples of using handhelds in education.
• Palm Education Pioneer Grants:SRI International provided K-12 teachers and their students with Palm computers who wanted to evaluate handheld technology for education under the Palm™ Education (PEP) grant. This grant provided over 100 classrooms with Palm computers across the U.S. They report the evaluation of PEP program (Final Evaluation Report, PDF version).
• Tech Teachers: This provides good links for handhelds in education.
• Handhelds in K-12 Environment: This is a webblog, which is administered by Kathy Schrock, about handheld computers in the K-12 classroom.
• Handheld and Mobile Devices Literature List: This page provides a list of research findings on the use of handhelds in education.
• The Concord Consortium: The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit organization for educational research and development. This site provides useful resources for the use of handhelds in education, free software, and their recent publications for the handheld computer in education. In particular, Handhelds: Ubiquitous Computing and Handhelds Track Student Progress highlights the use of handhelds for education.
• Competing Visions of Handheld Computer Use in the Classroom: Four competing visions of handheld use in K-12 classrooms are examined here.
• Supporting Science Inquiry in K-12 Classrooms using Palm Computers: This webpage shows how Palm computers support the academic mission of K-12 education.

Examples of Using Handhelds in Education

• The Children’s Technology Workshop(Toronto, Ontario, Canada): Handheld computers have been used to enrich students experience in the after-school workshops.
• St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN): Handheld computers have been used to help students learn Japanese.
• KITE Case Library: Case 4054-1, Case 5139-1, Case 9031-1 (KITE Case Library): The Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Education (KITE) is a project for creating and diffusing technology integration knowledge in education. As a product, KITE built a case library which contains over 1,000 technology integration stories based on interviews with inservice teachers. These three cases are about integrating handheld computers for teaching and learning.
• Studio Four: It provides examples of how handhelds are being used in the classroom.
• palmOne (K-12 Snapshots): This site provides examples of how educators and students at K-12 schools have improved their teaching and learning with the power of palmOne devices.
• Learning @ Hand: This site provides lesson plans which integrate handheld devices into classroom. You can also submit your lesson plan.
• Palmtops: Computing @ Every Student: This site provides pdf reports about pilot project results in schools.
• Successlink has a handheld section with lesson plans
• Paperless Classroom: This site shows how Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) can be used in the classroom.
• Education in Hand: A Texas district uses handhelds to motivate students with Asperger's syndrome.

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