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THE IPAD EFFECT A new study tracks how devices impact learning and teaching in classrooms By Jared Whitlock

Mike Aguirre, far right, former city attorney and mayoral candidate, offers advice to the Torrey Pines Community Planning Board during a Nov. 14 meeting dedicated to discussing the One Paseo project in Carmel Valley. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek

ENCINITAS — Increasingly so, iPads are common in school districts throughout the nation. But studies on the effectiveness of the devices in the classroom — those are rare. That’s why a new study from the University of San Diego’s Mobile Technology Learning Center could make a splash in the education community. The research found that iPads promoted 21st century skills like creative thinking, communication

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Residents want to be heard during airport workshop project manager for AECOM aviation planning, began the workshop by sharing the preliminary planning progress made since March. Airport data has been collected and an overdue update of the airport master plan was sent to the FAA. Upon taking an inventory of the airport AECOM

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work with the city and community and come up with a plan and layout,” Jack Driscoll, a principal of Airport Property Ventures, which manages Oceanside airport, said. “The types of hangars, layout and activities, the demand will deter-

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OCEANSIDE — Residents spoke up during the Airport Master Plan Workshop held on Nov. 13 and said they want more opportunities to provide input in the Oceanside Municipal Airport master plan. Andrew Scanlon, senior

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Aguirre said. “It’s all good stuff but you have to look at it systematically. … There’s no reason to change the zoning. Zoning is there for a reason. If there’s no zoning change, there’s no project.” Aguirre recommended the board use the Public Records Act to obtain all possible information and to “get litigation going early.” “It’s not that these people are bad,” he said. “It’s that they’re very smart. … You are house kitties and they are alley cats. You don’t have to be mean. You don’t have to be nasty. But building something that’s four times bigger than what’s allowed doesn’t even make sense.” The site is zoned for about 510,000 square feet of office space. The original proposal called for about 1.8 million gross square feet of development with retail and office buildings, a 150-room hotel and more than 600 multifamily residential units. It features public open spaces, internal roadways

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Students at El Camino Creek work on presentations with their iPads. A new study, one of the first of its kind, concluded that iPads benefit reading, writing and creative skills. Photo by Jared Whitlock

CARMEL VALLEY — Members of the Torrey Pines Community Planning Board received some advice from Mike Aguirre, former city attorney and mayoral candidate, as they prepared to comment on a draft environmental impact report for a mixed-use development at the corner of Del Mar Heights Road and El Camino Real. “You’ve got to understand the nature of the game you’re in,” Aguirre told board members at a Nov. 14 meeting dedicated to discussing One Paseo, a controversial “neighborhood village” that would include retail, residential, office and open space on an approximately 24-acre lot. The planning board is attempting to find a solution to what it believes will be reduced emergency vehicle response times as a result of increased traffic on the already-impacted streets surrounding the proposed project. “You’re going down the road of how to make it work,”

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