mLearnAfrica. TeachThought - Learn better. Reasons To Use Digital Textbooks. iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Than Hardware. Much as tablet computers went mainstream in the iPad’s wake, Apple’s latest educational project heralds an age of tablet-based schoolbooks.
That, at least, is the hope and hype surrounding iBooks textbooks, launched Jan. 19 at a promotional gala held in the Guggenheim Museum and advertised in terms as glowing as an iPad’s screen. In coming years, schools worldwide will grapple with whether to adopt tablet-based materials, on the iPad or on other platforms. They’ll consider many factors — including cost, intellectual property issues and logistics — that may ultimately prove as important as the textbooks’ contents. But as learning is the ultimate purpose, the question remains: Will kids really learn more and better on tablets than existing media? Technology Integration - Technology Integration for Teachers. iPads and iPods in Education. Home. Digital Is. List of Tweeps and Blogs by Category - welcome to the mathtwitterblogosphere. Neil Hopkin's Blog. In my previous post, I considered Benjamin Zander’s idea of being ‘fascinated’ by the hurdles that we encounter in striving to be an ‘A’ grade teacher / leader / learner.
In this post, I extend the idea into my second principle for principals: living in to possibilities. Professor Dylan Wiliam makes the simple point that the graphs of school improvement are, in large part, quite flat. The distance between the vast majority of schools is statistically quite slight. However, in order to track our progress along this somewhat flat gradient, we have resorted to creating additional ways to level our students and pupils to enable us to chart progress. Using iPads in Education: Resources for teachers using iPads in the classroom. iPads in Education.
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