News Corp will introduce its own tablet called the Amplify Tablet for K-12 schools. The tablet was developed by Amplify, News Corp's education division led by Joel Klein. The Amplify Tablet will provide curriculum content as well as infrastructure for student data storage. It is designed to blend technology with traditional teaching methods and allow students to take the tablets home each night to play educational games. The goal is to use technology to improve and excite students about learning.

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News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools
Published: March 6, 2013
For nearly two years, Joel I. Klein helped Rupert Murdoch and News
Corporation weather a phone-hacking scandal at the company’s British tabloids with the
promise that he would eventually be able to return to the role the company hired him for: to
spearhead News Corporation’s new venture into the public school market. That day has
finally come.
On Wednesday at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Tex., Mr. Klein, the former
chancellor of New York City schools and the current chief executive of Amplify, News
Corporation’s fledgling education division, will take the stage for a surprising
announcement. Amplify will not sell just its curriculum on existing tablets, but will also offer
the Amplify Tablet, its own 10-inch Android tablet for K-12 schoolchildren.
In addition to tablets and curriculum, Amplify will also provide schools with infrastructure to
store students’ data.
“When I left I was convinced of two things,” Mr. Klein said of his tenure as chancellor of
New York schools. “If we didn’t see a dramatic technological change, we were not going to
be able to move this country forward”, and “second of all, that the private sector had to get
much, much more involved.”
An early look at the Amplify tablet revealed a sleek touch screen with material floating
against a simple background. If a child’s attention wanders, a stern “eyes on teacher”
prompt pops up. A quiz uses emoticons of smiley and sad faces so teachers can instantly
gauge which students understand the lesson and which need help.
“We wanted to use the language of the Web,” said Stephen Smyth, president of Amplify
Access, the division that produces the tablet, which is manufactured by Asus.
At first, the tablet will be targeted at middle-school children. It uses what educators call a
“blended learning” model that mixes technology with old-fashioned teaching. Amplify
designed the tablet so that schools can provide each student with one to take home each
night.
Outside the classroom, children can use it to play games, like one in which Tom Sawyer
battles the Brontë sisters.
“There’s a huge opportunity if you can get kids excited about educational games,” Mr.
Klein said. “You can change the learning curve.”

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III) Read the text and record the following
1) Memories about images
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Josefina Vasquez Mota wanted to give tablets
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certain schools of that country perhaps von an agreement with the government
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V) Write what you understand the text
It is about a businessman who had promised would provide tablets to basic
education young. These tables are handled as teaching tools and mentions that
encourage the young to take an interest in learning

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VI) Write the words you do not understand and try to guess its meaning
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VIII) Reread the text. You got it?
If I get it
IX) Write the words you've learned
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