Mark W. Smith: In Zeeland, an iPad for every high school student in the district. ZEELAND -- As students walk through the halls of Zeeland West High School, their backpacks are a little lighter. Stacks of paper and some textbooks have been replaced by the Apple iPad -- one for every high-schooler in the district. That's 1,800 iPads between the two high schools. And it's just the beginning for Zeeland Public Schools, which embarked on an ambitious project this fall that will give a tablet to every student in grades 3-12 -- the only district in Michigan to do so. The program represents one of the most aggressive in the country and has garnered national attention. With each student taking responsibility for one, the school uses the iPad for assigning classwork, testing and communicating with students.
Some teachers have gone paperless. Just two weeks into the experiment, administrators already are calling the iPad program a game-changer. "They think technology now -- live, breathe and eat it," said John Holwerda, assistant principal at Zeeland West High School. Can Apple Products Pave the Way to Personalized Learning? Culture Teaching Strategies Lenny Gonzalez San Francisco middle school students watch instructional videos on their school-issued iPads. Apple held a press event today at its Cupertino headquarters, unveiling a variety of improvements to its line of iPods and iPhones, including an update to its mobile operating system and a brand new version of its wildly popular iPhone. As always happens around these Apple announcements, there’s a flurry of excitement — before, during, and after — about what the company will reveal. Some of that allure came from its former CEO. And, of course, the company has had a huge impact on education.
The shift to mobile devices — first the iPods, then the iPhones, and now the iPads — has once again put Apple in the lead in the consumer market, and it’s interesting to think about how the company continues to be embraced by schools and to influence education. But Apple’s mobile devices are at their core consumer products. Related. British Library offers e-classics app for iPad. 2 August 2011Last updated at 16:32 The electronic copy of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe includes elaborate line drawings The British Library is making digital copies of more than 40,000 classic books available for the iPad. Texts appear in fully digitised form, complete with original page markings and drawings, as opposed to the plain formatting associated with other types of e-books.
All of the works date from the 18th and 19th centuries and include novels, poetry and historical accounts. Users must pay a monthly subscription of £1.99 to access the full collection. "E-books tend to be rather two-dimensional. "One of beauties of this is that it tries to represent in facsimile the beauty of the book. " The collection was originally digitised in a project funded by Microsoft. There are a further 25,000 completed books which the British Library expects to make available through the app in future. Touching stories Instead they are stored online "in the cloud", according to Mr Bell. How To Make It More Difficult for a Thief To Turn Off Location Services on the iPad.
Over the last few years there have been numerous happy ending stories about lost / stolen iPads and iPhones recovered thanks to Location Services and the Find My iPhone app within MobileMe. The app is now free as well, so it’s a great tool to have just in case your iPad or iPhone is ever misplaced or stolen. In order for Find My iPhone to work, Location Services must be turned on on the missing device; and many people have pointed out that a tech-savvy thief might quickly turn off the service once they get their hands on your iDevice. Luckily, there’s a way to make that a much bigger challenge for a thief, and it’s simple to implement. To make life a whole bunch harder for a thief who wants to turn off Location Services, you can use Restrictions from within the Settings app. . – Launch the Settings app. – Go to the General section and look for Restrictions on the right hand side.
. – Once you enable restrictions, look at the second section listed – Allow Changes. Patrick Jordan More Posts. iPad Applications In Bloom’s Taxonomy. This has bubbled up in my feeds not once, but several times now. It’s an interesting graphic that actually places example iPad applications into Bloom’s levels of performance in the cognitive domain. Focussed around students, and not really workplace learning, but interesting nonetheless. Check it out. October 2 & 3 (NEC Birmingham), Booth #D250 | Register (Free) Leave a Reply.