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11 Social Skills & Life Skills Apps in iPad App Store | Friendship Circle -- Special Ne... - 1 views

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    Apps for social skills & life skills
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The Gamification and Socialization of Learning | Edudemic - 0 views

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    "Grockit is an upstart company founded by a former educator attempting to socialize and gamify test preparation for national standardized tests (e.g., ACT, GRE, AP, SAT). In "gamifying" this formerly sterile process, Grockit hopes to cash on not only the novelty, but the natural human instinct to connect. "
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Education Week: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 1 views

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  • centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning.
  • supplement
  • But such rapid adoption of a device with such a short history means that figuring out the best educational use can involve a lot of trial and erro
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  • “Is this the best use of our funds, or is it simply a tool to engage and motivate our students?”
  • “Of course, technology has that capability, but is that always the best angle?”
  • In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
  • th and 9th grade classes used gaming and assessment applications
  • Pearson
  • personalize reading assignments based on proficiency,
  • e-text feature
  • most teachers and students supported continuing the pilo
  • Pearson officials say their material would be more refined a second time around after learning their own lessons about designing content.
  • that can lead you to want to overload the presentation.”
  • Teachers in the pilot also reported having to learn on the fly.
  • For this to work, really, next year, you need to have a team—one or two or three teachers—who will just sit down and go through this and put stuff on there that’s going to matter,” he says. “Trying to do it during the school year is just crazy.”
  • Excluding the fad factor, experts say there are legitimate reasons for educational interest.
  • iPad to help highlight key vocabulary words
  • some apps to help students understand fractions and decimals
  • definitely a work in progress
  • The question may be whether the iPad is best suited as a 1-to-1 device or to be shared as part of a stable of digital classroom tools.
  • students can choose which device to use for an ongoing book-publishing project
  • students rotate between workstations
  • 34,000-student Irving Independent School District, where all high schools follow a 1-to-1 computing model, about 10 students and 20 administrators are testing an assortment of tablet-computing devices to see how they would meet their daily needs
  • administrators
  • tablets to access their calendars and email while on the run through campus, as well as how to use their touch-screen capabilities to check off rubrics for teacher evaluations like they would with an evaluation form.
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iPad4Edu - 1 views

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    Place to ask questions about using the iPad. Social netwrok for educators with iPads
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Tablet Rasa | Article Archives | Article Archives | Cleveland Magazine - Your guide to ... - 1 views

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    Laptops, iPads, social networks and computer simulation games are making their way into area classrooms, giving teachers a blank slate for innovative approaches to learning.
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Education Week's Digital Directions: Educators Evaluate Learning Benefits of iPad - 2 views

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    In September, Virginia announced the purchase of 350 iPads for 4th, 7th, and 9th graders in four counties to test the use of the device as a 1-to-1 computing tool in social studies classrooms.
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    "The Virginia Department of Education is phasing in the second wave of a pilot program that uses Apple's iPad tablet computers as the centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning."
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