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Welcome to the 'iPad in Education' web site - concerned with using Apple's iPad for learning and teaching. Although this is based in the UK, the site's content will reflect practice from other counties and contexts in order to explore and learn from a wide field. I am Ian Wilson (www.ianwilson.biz) a freelance Apple Education Mentor based in the north west of England (Twitter: @Ian__Wilson). I have set up this site as I believe the iPad signals the opportunity for a transformation in how technology is used in schools, colleges and universities. I am interested in looking at all age ranges, all abilities across all areas of the curriculum and keen to see if the iPad makes technology more transparent and cross-curricular as it should be.

iPads in Education "News, ideas and more on the use of iPads in the learning environment." Created and curated by John Evans John Evans curates this topic from blogs, tweets, videos and much more

"All students can have an iPad for use at school and at home, and initially that meant about 500 of them. There are currently about 900 students in the school and that number will rise to 1,100. It's a classic e-Learning Foundation equity scheme so it also includes families on very low incomes as well the better off. The iPad2s cost around £16 per month over three years and the cash comes from a mix of voluntary parental contributions, school funding and e-Learning Foundation mediated support."

"iPads Invade the Computer Lab A private school on the Big Island of Hawaii not only adopted Apple's iPad for student learning; the school designed a whole facility around it. "

MSSD IPad wiki page of apps by grade level, free and paid

I am going to monitor Lissetes wiki and blog on ipads as she introduces them to her school district this year and learn through their experiences in the hopes that we may consider purchasing a small number of ipads to use next year.

"iPads are making waves in education all over the nation, even in college classrooms, where they're replacing laptops, textbooks, and notebooks. Some colleges have even gone so far as to hand out iPads to new students, helping students and faculty all work with the same technology for learning."

Only the iPad Shambles Guru's page of iPad reources

So with our dependency on our smartphones and other mobile devices like the iPad how are they affecting how we pack for and travel on vacations today?

Here's how you can add the ability to have your iPad speak selected words and phrases. Go to Settings > General > AccessibilityTap Speak Selection from the list at the top of the screenAdjust the Speaking Rate (Choose a setting near the (s)lower end) You'll now get the option to have selected text spoken aloud in most any app that allows text editing.

18 Enlightening iPad Experiments in Education

This page is for sharing resources for teachers, tutors, and parents that are integrating iPads into education. Please share this if you find it helpful!

links to various educational ipad apps as well as links to databases including google.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages on a glossy iPad tablet computer.

A website dedicated to teaching with ipads

"Administrators, Where Are Your iPads?"

"What would you rather get for your classroom, an iPad 2 and Apple TV or an Interactive Whiteboard? Are your teachers asking for Interactive Whiteboards? Hold on to that discussion and don't answer until you know all of the possibilities!"

pedagogical foundation: consumption, curation, creation, and connection.

"Anyone with an iPad can create a video Videos can include your voice, drawing and a photo or background image Videos are delivered directly to your students with iPads Students can comment on the video with text or by creating additional videos"