iPad/iPod Resources. Ncsa-ipads - Handouts. iPads in Education. Oh the Places You'll Go. iPad Resources - Cheryl Davis. Four Reasons Why Enterprises Should Lease, Not Buy, the iPad 3. The days of PCs moseying their way from CEO to office worker to mailboy over a long decade are, thankfully, long gone.
Today’s mobile devices take a lot more abuse from employees (though there are always surprising exceptions). They are also improving at a much faster rate. In 2011 alone, we saw the state of the art in tablets go from the single-core iPad to the quad-core (4) Asus Transformer Prime. As a result, the sweet spot for tablets like the coming iPad 3 is a two-year lifespan, though thriftier organizations are doing three years. That’s according to data from First American Education Finance. Customers include Tower School of Massachusetts, which rolled out 300 iPad 2s to grade 3-8 students last fall, and a private university in the southeast which began last fall what it hopes will be an annual rollout of 600 iPads to incoming freshmen. So besides the short lifespan and fast pace of technology, what are the reasons to lease rather than buy tablets?
1) The upfront cost is lower. iPads for 250+ K Students: 1st Look @ Their Effect on Learning. Rethinking Testing in the Age of the iPad. iPad Resources. iPad for School Administrators. 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. Literacy Journal: Only 1 iPad in the Classroom?
[for additional ELA/Reading specific apps and ideas see Reading on the iPad] Is only one iPad in a classroom worth it?
This question keeps reappearing on the EC Ning and in other blog spaces. The answer is easy: YES, especially if the teacher has access to a Mac desktop or (preferably) laptop and a wifi network in the classroom. It is an even larger YES if the Mac device has the most current operating system. Having a computer to which the iPad can sync is not absolutely necessary, but it is a Best Idea. If more iPads are in the future, you might want to check out iPad App Reviews and iPad 3C's: Some Planning Questions. Setup and Projection You will definitely need to set up a unique Apple ID (iTunes acct.) with a password that is kept secret from the students.
OK - I have apps, now what can I do with them? iPad - Why? How? More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool. Digital Kindergarten. 1:1 iPad Resources. iPads in the Classroom. Pine Glen Library & Technology Center » Setting up a cartful or two of iPads.
Pine Glen was very fortunate to receive 60 iPads this school year on two Bretford Power Sync Carts!
The Carts will make management of the iPads easier, because they provide a central place to store, recharge, and sync the iPads to the iTunes library on my laptop. It was quite a bit of work to get the iPads ready to go for the students. I made a few mistakes a long the way, but here’s the most efficient method that I’ve found for getting all the iPads up and running in a uniform manner, particularly if you already have a bunch of free apps and apps purchased from the Volume Purchase Program: 1. Unbox all the iPads and place them in the cart. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. A. B. C. 12. Using iPads in Education: Resources for teachers using iPads in the classroom.
iPad for Teaching & Learning.