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Www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/ipads. 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom. Pages Friday, October 7, 2011 39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom How Much Did Steve Jobs Change the World?

39 Sites For Using iPads in the Classroom

You might be reading this on your iPhone, iPad or computer, but whether or not you have a Macintosh or a PC, Steve Jobs is responsible for so much of the technology we are using today. Did you know that Windows computers copied the drop-down window interface from Apple computers? iPads in Education - Exploring the use of iPads and mobile devices in education. 1:1 initiative and implementation. One to one. APPitic: Home. iPADs in the Classroom. Teaching With Tablets. Stephanie Hedge is a graduate student in the Department of English at Ball State University.

Teaching With Tablets

You can follow her on twitter at @slhedge. I love my iPad. I bought it this summer, and it’s still new enough that sometimes I just sit there, stroking the burnished metal of the back, and marveling about how neat it is to live in the future. One of the most awesome things about this tech, for me, is the fundamental ways it has infiltrated my teaching style. When I teach, I use my iPad pretty exclusively, from lesson planning to classroom management to grading, and it has done a serious number on the way I think about being a teacher in the dawning age of ubiquitous digital technology.

I present this post with a two caveats: first, this post is written with iPads in mind (particularly as I discuss apps), because that’s what I use, but the basic principles hold for any tablet, including the neat-o Microsoft Surface. Why use tablets to teach? Tablets are mobile within the classroom. Now what? Whew! iPad Literacy Project by David W. Malone. Education - Resources - Teachers and Administrators. Educreations - All about apps in YOUR classroom! iPads Make Better Readers, Writers. Literacy Skills iPads Make Better Readers, Writers In a research paper titled “Unlocking Literacy with iPad,” Ohio English teacher James Harmon found that state-compiled statistics indicate that those students with iPad access in the year leading up to the Ohio Graduation Test had a 6-percent greater chance of passing the test’s reading portion than those without, and an 8-percent greater chance of passing the writing portion.

iPads Make Better Readers, Writers

By Margo Pierce09/06/11 Once upon a time teachers stood in front of a blackboard writing letters of the alphabet with chalk and drilling students to develop literacy skills. But now that children are growing up with laptops, streaming video, and even iPads, what’s a teacher to do? During the 2010-2011 school year Harmon conducted a “teacher-research” study to measure the effect Apple’s iPad had on the language test scores of his students taking the annual Ohio Graduation Test. This convinced Harmon of the appropriateness of the iPad as a teaching tool.

iPads in Education. Bloom's Apps - 21nnovate. Learning and Teaching with iPads. iPads in Schools. Ten Sites Supporting iPads In Education… A Post Of Resources.

Welcome to the iPod & iPad User Group Wiki. We welcome you to our wiki and blog for supporting iPod & iPad devices in education.

Welcome to the iPod & iPad User Group Wiki

Although our focus is K-12, many of the techniques should work for you at any level and with any number of devices. On the wiki side of this site are the deployment and management articles, and on the blog side, you will find the action research projects and classroom activities (written primarily by teachers) where iPods and iPads are supporting academic achievement for our students. Further, we have posted videos that were filmed at the end of the 2010-2011 school year that reference both our 3rd grade iPod touch and iPad 1:1 programs.

We are posting as many help and how-to articles here as we can so you can continue to be successful using iOS devices in your classroom. Please let us know if there are more or different things that you would like to have included here. Follow us on Twitter @CanbyiOS Here comes the game changer.... Stay tuned for notes on this year's deployment with iOS 7. Older news: 50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks. An absolute gem of an article by John Brandon and Graham Barlow from MacLife on 30th March over at TechRadar.

50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks

This is going to become my iPad manual from here on in. Customised iPads for all iPad 2 tips and original iPad tips - get 'em here! With great new features like two video cameras, a faster processor and a thinner design, the iPad 2 is the world's best tablet device. iPad 2 review It's also fully capable of running the latest version of Apple's iOS operating system and great apps like iMovie and GarageBand. 1. iOS now supports folders. 2. Double-clicking the Home button shows you all the apps that are running on your iPad in a bar along the bottom of the screen. 3.

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Kathycasey. iPads in Schools.