iPads in classroom provide 20 percent jump in math scores, study says. After a yearlong pilot program in California initiated by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the math scores of students using iPads jumped 20 percent compared with classrooms that used traditional paper textbooks.
HMH Fuse: Algebra I was instituted at Amelia Earhart Middle School in the Riverside Unified School District as the world's first iPad-driven algebra curriculum. According to the HMH official press release, 78 percent of students in the pilot program scored "proficient" or "advanced" on the California Standards Test for spring 2011. Compared with the 59 percent of students that had the same rating using traditional textbooks, the iPad program seems to have been quite successful. HMH also notes that students in the pilot program were "more motivated, attentive, and engaged than traditionally educated peers. " Since Apple's announcement of iBooks 2 and iBooks Author, the education world has been buzzing. The HMH Fuse program certainly gives the latter argument a big boost. Redefining Instruction With Technology: Five Essential Steps. iPad for Teaching & Learning. 7 Ways Administrators & Educators Can Use Evernote.
Recently, I received a email from someone in response to my post The 21st Principal's Top 10 Web Tools for Administrators asking me to be more specific on how I use each of these tools.
Here’s a bit more explanation on how I use Evernote. Evernote serves mainly as "an information collection tool",” though I use it as well for task management by placing my To-Do Lists there. I started out by creating seven notebooks, each of these notebooks serves a different purpose. Here are those seven notebooks and a description on how I use them.
Administrator Log Notes: An administrator I once worked for a principal who stated, "If it ain't documented, then it didn't happen. " Administrators Log in Evernote Bloggers Notebook: While my blogging is mostly for personal-professional reasons and not directly connected to my role as principal, I use my Bloggers Notebook in Evernote as both a placed to collect blogging ideas and as a place to write early drafts of blog posts. Bloggers Notebook in Evernote. Announcing the winners of the 2011 Best App Ever Mobile Application Awards presented by 148Apps.com. 2011 Awards Sponsor Share Best App Ever 2012 Awards?
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