This message is especially important for those of us who develop ed tech products but is a big heads up for anyone who thought the iPad just might be a fad.
It is Benjamin Bloom's belief that the entry point to learning is the acquisition of knowledge. He postulates that a solid foundation of terms, facts, theories, and skills is the educational base that will allow the mind to evaluate information effectively and inspire innovation.
There are many different ways to set your iDevices up. Here is how I've done mine (I have struckthrough ideas I've changed since Sept 2010, and put in purple new ideas from June 2011):
"Everywhere I turn schools seem to be buying iPads. Critics, even in this forum, question whether investment in a relatively new and untested technology can be justified, especially given the current economic climate. To some degree, I think their scepticism has merit."
To make a note in an open iBooks file, press down on the iPad’s screen to select the word or phrase you want to annotate.
In the menu bar that appears above your selected text, tap the Note button to create a digital sticky note and use the iPad keyboard to type in your thoughts.
Tap the shrunken note to expand it so you can review your annotations.
Penguin Classics, that more-than-1,500-titles collection of English-language literary classics, has a new free app for iOS devices available on Tuesday.
Science students haven't been left out, of course, and there are a wide range of applications offering help with chemistry, biology, astronomy and even the math that comes along with certain fields.