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Schools embrace iPad as tablet revolution reaches children. iPad breaks into class consciousness in Sheffield. Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:51.
Apple iPad moves into the classroom. Pupils starting at the Longfield Academy in Kent this September will be doing more of their learning on Apple iPads.
The school is one of many around the country to experiment with tablet computers. Announcing the scheme to parents earlier this year, the school said “young people enjoy learning through technology”. The school said that the weight of the iPad and its battery life made it ideal for children to use for learning at home as well as through the school day. In return for a donation from parents, children will have access to an iPad 2 with a protective case, a range of apps plus insurance and technical support. Wallace High School in Northern Ireland announced a similar scheme in June. Longfield says it prefers Apple’s iPad because “hardware reviews have shown life expectancy and performance of Apple’s hardware to outlive traditional PC specifications”.
The iPad is not the only tablet out there, of course, though it does dominate the market. The school that gives every student an iPad: How the system was set up. Although using an iPad is simple, setting up the school's system was anything but for Fraser, and limitations in Apple's ecosystem soon became apparent.
The school currently has an Xserve providing user-login services to iMacs and notebooks, and Fraser's "beloved" iMac suite was dismantled, to enable each classroom to house an iMac. Each morning, pupils log in to accounts to sync their iPads with their class's iMac. Secondary pupils each have their own library, enabling a certain amount of customisation (such as podcast subscriptions); in primary, every iPad is synchronised to the same account.
In terms of app purchase and deployment, Fraser buys apps on his computer and copies them elsewhere via Home Sharing. "This doesn't do updates, so teachers have to press 'update all' on some iPads each day," says Fraser. "No iTunes account can buy an app more than once, and it would take too long to create an account for each pupil. iPad for every child at Clevedon - if the parents pay for them. Clevedon Community School are hoping to get iPads for each child Comments (0) STUDENTS at Clevedon Community School could soon each have their own iPad in the classroom – as long as their parents are willing to pay for them.
Leaders at the school are holding meetings next week to talk to parents about the possibility of all 1,233 students having their own iPads to help them with their studies. The school has been trying out Apple iPads since May, with 25 students and teachers being issued with the tablet computers. The trial has proved positive and now school bosses are looking at two different schemes to provide the hand held computers for students.
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I didn’t grow up with computers like today’s students did, but I’m very much on board with becoming more tech savvy and, yes, even accepting help from my students when I have technical difficulties. About a year ago I bought myself an iPad after saving for it for months. It was going to help me organize my life, both at home and at school, and guess what?
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The program was conceived as a method for encouraging the use of technology in the classroom. By loaning equipment to faculty for an academic term, we would encourage them to evaluate—and hopefully innovate—the utility of various "cutting edge" technologies with no financial risks to themselves or their departments. Some colleges and universities are already providing all incoming students with iPads.
Generally, these tend to be smaller, private institutions or individual programs within larger ones. However, as a large, public, urban institution, the University of Cincinnati is in no position either to "give" all its incoming first-year students cutting-edge devices like the iPad, or to require students to acquire the devices themselves. We're Here, Now What? Masterclass. Could the iPad be at the forefront of education in the future?
Several UK schools have already adopted the iPad in their classrooms, and are seeing positive results. Cedars School of Excellence in Greenock, for example, was an early iPad adopter, ordering devices for every pupil when the first model was released, while Honywood Comprehensive in Essex aims to provide each of its pupils with an iPad 2 before the end of the year. What’s the cost? In these times of austerity, when schools are already strapped for cash, should they really be spending additional money on gadgets? Arguably, the iPad is much more than that. ASE Training Modules 2011/2012. iPad As.... iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms.
Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. Syded. Teaching with iPads Part 1 of 3.