Technology Timesavers for Teachers - myTeachersLounge Teachers today are fortunate to have access to technological tools that make our jobs easier and minimize the paperwork involved in educating our students. 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. The first tool I use is DropBox and you don’t have to have an iPad to use it. DropBox is a way to store your documents “in the cloud” so that you have access to them wherever you are. I cannot tell you how liberating it was for me to kick my jump drive to the curb. I also don’t have the problem of having some files on my computer at home and some on my computer at school. That makes this control freak happy, let me tell you. The other website and free app I use is Dictionary.com. Do you see that little blue speaker up there in the upper right corner? Imagine!
15 Ways To Use The New iPad In Classrooms A Useful Twitter Cheat Sheet 3.97K Views 0 Likes Think you're supposed to actually type a full 140 characters for each tweet? How To Use Vine In The Classroom 6.84K Views 0 Likes Students can quickly create their very own six-second videos for free. It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program Recently, we were tasked with developing policies and procedures for an equipment lending program initiated within the Faculty Technology Resources Center at the University of Cincinnati. 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. We're Here, Now What? Once we decided to implement the lending program we were excited, but also a little nervous. Load iPads with eBooks and then select and assign reading groups for certain books. As a consequence, we began to roll our eyes every time we encountered a claim in the blogosphere about the revolutionary potential of the iPad for education. How to Lend an iPad It's the Pedagogy, Stupid
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? Although Apple doesn’t offer an educational discount for individual iPads (that’s reserved for MacBooks and iMac range), it may be cheaper for schools to buy tablets in bulk. Also good to remember is that the original iPad is still only 18 months old. Why the iPad? The iPad has some clear advantages over other IT solutions. Another big bonus is that the iPad could be cheaper to look after in the long run.
Exploring the impact of Apple's iPad on schools & schooling. 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. iPads retail at between £300 and £400 – and parents will be asked to pay for the tablet computers for their children. Students who get free school meals will have an iPad purchased for them by the school. Clevedon School is the first school in North Somerset to look at such a scheme. Mr Bowkett added: "The time is right for the school.
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. The downside Elsewhere, problems exist. Time to relax Liked this?
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. 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. At the moment, however, Android tablets are very similar in price to Apple's iPad and there are fewer tablet-specific apps.
iPad breaks into class consciousness in Sheffield Thursday, 13 May 2010 11:51 A holiday in the USA gave teacher James Cross an early opportunity to use an iPad with his students Hands-on with the iPad at High Storrs School I showed the iPad to my headteacher the other day, boldly proclaiming that this could be the future of handheld learning in schools. True, pretty much every handheld device from the PDA (personal digital assistant) to the iPod has been the subject of this claim, yet they've failed to make a dent in how the majority of students learn in schools. The iPad is sleek (0.5 inches thin) and light (1.5 pounds) and is easy to hold in the hands. The on-screen keyboard is surprisingly usable and responsive, and the screen is built for sharing, employing a new technology that allows for wide viewing angles – this makes it suitable for work with groups of students. Anyone who has used an iPhone or iPod touch will be immediately at home with the iPad's operating system as it's practically identical in most ways. More on iPad ;sns=em
iPad Gaining Educational Ground As Schools In UK And USA Provide Students With iPads According to a new report, the iPad is gaining some major ground in the area of education. Several schools (both K-12 and college-level) are already equipping students and/or staff with iPads, and the trend is only growing with time. It’s no secret that the iPad is a brilliant educational device, service as a vast information resource, a personal organizer, and an eBook and text book reader, not to mention the swarms of incredible educational apps available on the App Store, but according to a report from Kent Online UK, the trend is rapidly gaining ground. The Longfield Academy has become the first school in the UK to provide all their students with iPads, and while some other schools have already given iPads to some of their students, Longfield will be the first to offer them to all 1,400 students in attendance when their new academy opens in September. There’s even a local elementary school in Utah near where I live that will soon be implementing iPads in their science classrooms.
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