8 Burning Questions About iPads in Class (Answered!) I recently received an email from a media and tech teacher from a school district in Wisconsin. The questions she has asked are awesome and could be helpful to others. My answers to her questions are followed with actual video clips from my classroom. Enjoy and may this be helpful! Questions are in bold! How has it (implementation of iPads) gone for you and the students? Since then, we couldn't live without them! It has been a challenge to truly integrate the iPads and there many uses. Take the concept that you need the students to master and think, "How can we do this on the iPad through an app or website!" The students couldn't imagine school without the iPads. So many students comment that they love having internet access to look up information to preview a concept. What percentage of class time do the students use the iPads? We also utilize Twitter as a place to incorporate the #pcsmmvp Most Valuable Point of the day. What types of activities are they using them for? It is not good!
iPads revolutionizing Flagstaff classrooms The iPads whispered and blinked to life, then loaded the afternoon's work: a website chock full of long addition, long multiplication, long division, even word problems. Except for the cartoon badges awarded for success, the IXL.com problem set didn't look much like a game. But the fifth-graders in Kamalene Nelson's classroom at Thomas Elementary maneuvered through the site as if it were. Daniel Samano looked thoughtfully at a long division problem on his iPad screen and hit on a concept that teachers have repeatedly said makes mobile devices a revolutionary classroom tool: Engagement. "It kinda wakes me up more than paper and pencil kinda stuff," he said. From Thomas fifth grade to Knoles third grade, Sechrist preschool to Coconino 10th grade, students can't get enough of the iPads, or their pocket-sized predecessor and still-popular sister, the iPod. Flagstaff Unified School District has about 500 new touch-screen mobile devices around the schools. In Mrs.
Apple announces iBooks 2, a new textbook experience for the iPad at Education Event in NYC Among industrialized nations, the US has fallen well behind, coming in at 17th in reading, 21st in math and 23rd in the sciences, globally. ”No one company can fix it all,” said Apple’s Head of Marketing Phil Schiller. “One place we think we can help is in student engagement.” Today, at an education-focused event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, Apple announced the debut of iBooks 2, a “new textbook experience for the iPad.” Traditional textbooks are expensive, physically cumbersome and prone to becoming obsolete. Today at the event, Schiller told the audience that “Kids are getting smarter thanks to their tablets, whether they’re older and studying for finals or kids playing a Dora game.” The iPad textbooks demonstrated at the event were highly interactive with 3D models, videos and manipulatable elements. You can pinch the book to zip in and out of interactive media and jump to the table of contents. Check out all of our posts from today’s Apple Education event here.
Apple's education announcement: what you need to know Today's education event was a reasonably small one, so far as Apple pressers go, held at the Guggenheim museum in New York City, with a smattering of media representatives in attendance. It arrives on the tails of some already hearty numbers for the company, including the existence of 20,000 learning-themed apps and 1.5 million iPads currently in use for education. But Cupertino's plans for the future of learning are grand indeed, including the desire to "reinvent the textbook" via iBooks 2. And while our expectations weren't particularly grandiose going into this morning, we were, indeed, pretty impressed with what we saw. So, what did you miss if you happened to sleep in late today? Find out, after the break. iBooks 2 The second coming of iBooks marks a much larger push toward education for Apple's already crazy-popular tablet. iBooks Author So, those fancy new textbooks are all well and good, but how are they actually made? iTunes U Comments
iPad a solid education tool, study reports Apple's new iBooks 2 app is demonstrated for the media at the Guggenheim Museum on January 19. Pilot study done by textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and AppleMiddle school students studied from 2010 to 2011 using HMH's Fuse: Algebra I appDuring study, iPad seemed to help students better connect with the content (WIRED) -- More and more schools are jumping on the digital bandwagon and adopting iPads for daily use in the classroom. Apple's education-related announcements last week will no doubt bolster the trend, making faculty tools and student textbooks more engaging and accessible. But today another data point emerged, demonstrating that the iPad can be a valuable asset in education. The study was conducted at a Riverside, California, middle school from Spring 2010 to Spring 2011 using HMH's Fuse: Algebra I app. The iPad seems to help students better connect with the content at hand. "Students' interaction with the device was more personal.
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. 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. The internet got mightily upset when Orientation Lock was replaced with Mute on the iPad during the last iOS update. 4. If you're carrying around sensitive data, you can now enable a feature that'll erase all the data on the device if someone inputs the incorrect passcode 10 times. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Can American Schools Afford Apple’s iBooks Textbooks Initiative? By Lory | January 26, 2012 | 2 comments With last week’s education event from Apple, the big news was the addition of textbooks to the iBookstore. Apple has teamed up with some of the largest suppliers of traditional textbooks to bring digital interactive learning tools to students in K-12 education. There have been arguments for and against the use of iPads in K-12 public schools since the device first launched. The problem goes much deeper than any individual’s tax dollar. At the minimum cost of $499 per iPad a district would need to come up with nearly $750,000 just to have an iPad for every student at one average-size high school of 1,500 students. Some school districts could raise that kind of money from local bond sales, but low-income communities will not likely see an iPad in the hands of every student. The need to fund public schools is only part of the problem. Additionally, the $15 price tag is not all it is cracked up to be.