Common Core Technology Guidelines Don't Include Mobile Devices

The Journal (1/14, Norris) reports on the technology specifications that the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers recently released, suggesting that the guidelines don't focus enough on using mobile devices. The article says, "there are truly mobile devices...that satisfy the consortia's specs except for physical screen size, but they are being considered inappropriate for Common Core testing that will start in 2014-2015. But wait, it gets worse: in 2014-2015--only 2 years from now when the testing is to begin in earnest--handheld devices having a Retina-level screen resolution of 2048-by-1536 will be common place at today's prices or less. But again, those devices are NOT acceptable for Common Core testing."