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"s Apple pushes out its new education products, new information about whether using the iPad gives students an advantage over using print books is starting to surface."

"The iKeyboard was another Kickstarter success story at Mocworld / iWorld 2012, garnering over 6 times what the required threshold was for funding. Its mission is to "addresses the one drawback of a tablet computer" which is the inability to touch type on the iPad's virtual keyboard. Again, I'm not a fast typist - I definitely need to work on that to improve my overall productivity when writing. The iKeyboard gives me the opportunity to work on that on what is often my primary writing tool."

With the interest of helping teachers improve their instructional practices and enhancing student learning, FADS (Formative Assessment Delivery System) is a computerized system that will allow classroom teachers to design, develop, and deliver formative assessments and to monitor and report student progress within an interpretive context. This online accessible system will allow teachers to accurately diagnose students' comprehension and learning needs by providing real-time assessment, logging, analysis, feedback, and reporting. The current five-year FADS project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is focused on designing activities deriving from middle school mathematics and science curricula aligned with state and national standards.

"As you probably already know, the Apple iTunes store is filled with thousands of free and inexpensive education apps. You may not have known, though, that many children's favorite TV shows and movies have educational iPad apps that youngsters will love. They will improve their reading, writing and more, as they play along with some of their favorite characters, like those from Toy Story and SuperWhy."

"This blog post is going to examine how the iPad was used to improve the pedagogy of a Design & Technology project and allow child initiated learning by motivating the children to discover new skills and knowledge through project based learning. "

"Sosh, by Mark Bowers Ph.D. PLLC, has been called the "Swiss Army knife of apps," and it definitely lives up to those expectations. Based on Dr. Bowers' book, Improving Social Skills with Children and Adolescents, the mobile app also focuses on skills, tips, exercises, and strategies for effectively communicating and interacting in social situations."

"Educators are increasingly turning to technology to improve their teaching, communication and organization skills. Having a web page to use to deliver and organize content and make it easy for students to work, communicate, and stay connected outside of class hours is essential in this modern age. One free application for creating web sites for courses that is hugely popular with teachers is Weebly.com."

"Learn to more effectively use iPads to improve instruction and productivity! This course is a blended learning program where participants learn through video tutorials, webinars, readings, and projects. Those enrolled will attend one face-to-face session and submit artifacts of their learning to a digital portfolio blog. The skills taught in this series have been designed to support the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). "

"Our school is evaluating how assessment works across all faculties. We are doing this to improve pedagogy and help student learning. Of course, there are prescriptions from the state that must be adhered to as part of the rules and regulations that govern student assessment (and reporting). However, there's plenty of freedom to innovate in schools, especially within faculties, if we have a coherent plan for change and professional development with more than just a passing nod to best practice."

"his is a free proof reader, grammar checker. Just copy and paste in your text and get a detailed report and some advice on ho to improve your writing. Completely free (or so they say)"

Includes ten tips to help encourage children's imaginations

"OS X may come with plenty of great apps and utilities to get you started, but there are a few incredibly helpful utilities that are either missing or could be improved. That's what we're focusing on here, with four of the most helpful utilities for OS X that everyone should have on their Mac. Best of all? They're all free!"