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Bronx school reflection blog about iPad implementation

katie Morrow

LoudMommy is a Not For Profit Ministry with one goal in mind: Bringing support and comfort to families by giving a voice to their Non-Verbal child through an iPad.

Lake Minneola will be is the first public school in Central Florida to buy the devices for every student as part of a state pilot program to save on textbooks and offer a new dimension in learning for students.

Thinking twice about our use of digital media, what our practices are doing to us, and what we are doing to each other, is one of the most important priorities people have today-and Douglas Rushkoff gives us great guidelines for doing that thinking. Read this before and after you Tweet, Facebook, email or YouTube. -Howard Rheingold

Blog from ADE in England. Comprehensive and suggest apps for content areas

t's true that you can use your iPad instead of your Mac to take care of many common computing tasks. But unless you're ready to ditch Mac OS X entirely, you'll still need to transfer files back and forth between your iPad and your Mac if you're going to get work done.

Florida's "first iPad high school" has deployed 300 iPads to its high school teachers and students. Thanks to preparations on the infrastructure, training, and security fronts, the fall rollout has proved relatively snag-free.

Sale of 2 million devices: - iPod: 1092 days - iPhone: 114 days - iPad: 59 days As you look at deployments, the model is important working the numbers

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.