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"2012 has been another banner year for the iPad App Store. There are now more than 328,000 apps designed specifically for iPad available (as at 12/21/12) - very close to double the number that there were at this time last year. There are iPad apps for just about any use that can be imagined for them - from excellent business and productivity apps to iPad editions of leading newspapers and magazines, to amazingly capable apps for enhancing our photos and videos, to stellar apps for education and of course plenty of entertainment apps and great iPad games. "

"Originally posted Sept 2010. Modified June 2011 (I have struckthrough ideas I've changed, and put in purple new ideas). Modified Oct 2011 for iOS 5 update (I have struckthrough ideas I've changed, and put in green new ideas). Modified (pink) May 2012 thanks to Bryan Hughes alerting me to Air Server. Modified (orange) Sept 2012 thanks to Disp Recorder's release. Finally, a way to record your iPad screen in any app! The Apple Fairy has come to your classroom and given you some iPads and/or iPod Touches to use for learning? You and your students sure are the lucky ones. I know what you're thinking though: "So what now, technically speaking?" There are many different ways to set your iDevices up. Here is how I've done mine:"

"50 (mostly) free social media tools you can't live without in 2012"

"Advertise Here Direct From Google: How To Build A Quality Website In 2012"

"The Top 10 tech trends for 2012"

"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."

"Regarding our 1:1 iPad Program commencing at the beginning of 2012 in our year 6 and 7 cohorts, i have attached all relevant documents which have been part of informing parents and our community about our iPad happenings so far. All documents are in PDF format and can be downloaded."

"2012, featuring the very best tools available to Twittering teachers today"

"Recent Free NonFiction Kindle Books (May 31, 2012) "

"Increasing the gender diversity of the computer science faculty should be a priority for all schools as it would provide female students--as well as students of color--with role-models and mentors. In a study conducted in a suburban area near Oklahoma University, researchers examined the correlation between an after-school engineering mentoring program led by female college students and the perceptions of sixth and seventh grade girls (Holmes, Redmond, Thomas, & High, 2012). The researchers found that high quality mentoring relationships with a female role model led to an increase in the girls' confidence in their mathematics ability (Holmes et al., 2012). Similarly, seeing a confident and successful female computer science teacher could have a positive impact on girls and boys in computer science classes."

Pedagogy and curriculum that engages students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds and is deemed personally relevant to the lives they live, are seen as important factors towards equality of outcome by Wrench, Hammond, McCallum and Price (2012). Their research involved designing a curriculum and pedagogy that would be highly engaging to students of low-socioeconomic status. 'The interventions involved curriculum redesigns that set meaningful, challenging learning task(s) (culminating in high quality learning products); strong connection to student life-worlds; and a performative expectation for student learning.' (Wrench et al 2012 p934)

"Education researchers often worry that their work never catches the attention of policymakers and educators in the field. In 2012, however, research has been in the spotlight-and occasionally on the hot seat-as practitioners grapple with justifications for the Common Core State Standards, changing views on how children learn, and ways teachers can build responsive, boredom-free classrooms."

"Chad Criswell, author of the MusicEdMagic blog, as well as the contributing author/tech editor for several music education magazines, including Teaching Music, has written an excellent column on apps for Music Education which appears in the October 2012 edition of the magazine. It is going to be a great starting point-with 23 listed apps-for music educators getting into the iPad for the first time."

Show What You Know with Web and Mobile Apps Recorded Wednesday, November 14, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 pm (EST)

""The outcomes at Longfield clearly demonstrate the value of the iPad as an educational tool and the role that it can play in learning and teaching." (P4, NAACE, 2012)"

Part 1 Writing and Reading on the iPad http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad/2012/09/10/best-ipad-apps-college-academics/ Part 2 Conceptualizing and Presenting ideas http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad/2012/09/20/best-ipad-apps-university-students/