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Learning in Hand Show #28 is about some of what's new in Apple's iOS 8. Instead of showing you the major features you might already know about, I demonstrate the lesser known additions that teachers, students, and parents will be interested in. These include additions to the Notes app, predictive typing, dictation enhancements, sharing options, zoom improvements, speak screen, time limits, and updates to the photo library.

While some of the ideas that follow may seem a bit trendy, it's never hurts to model ways to interact with all this new media as a covert way of teaching digital literacy and citizenship.  

Greg Kulowiec begins his session by asking, "Why limit our students to one tool at one time?" With App Smashing, students can create content with a variety of apps and then publish it to the web - don't let content "die on your iPad." The general concept between App Smashing is merging content from a variety of apps. Greg likes the word App Smash, but Lisa Johnson (@techchef4u) calls it App Synergy.

There are two different methods with which you can annotate a PDF doc with Diigo.

USE POWERUP TO: Enhance learning for students with disabilities Personalize learning with technology  Enrich your professional learning

A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other social media projects.

All of the resources on this wiki have been created in Inspiration, Word, Pages, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs and Inspiration Maps for iPad. If you have Pages, Keynote or Inspiration Maps on your iPad or Android, then you will be able to use most of these Graphic Organisers.

Teachers and administrators struggle to find time to work together in a meaningful way. There are plenty of meetings scheduled. Many teachers leave these meetings though with the feeling of "could have spent my time doing more important things".

This is the first edition of the NMC Horizon Report that delves into the realm of academic and research libraries in a global context.

Here you will find practical advice and resources for using iPads for learning including classroom ideas, practitioner case studies; a list of reviewed education apps; and key findings from the Department's iPads for Learning Trial.

Teachers are still learning how to harness the educational potential of the thousands of apps on offer writes Leah Young.

Combines national data and a number of international rankings - including PISA, TIMSS and PIRLS - to provide an interpretation of how countries are performing relative to each other. In this report it identifies 8 essential skills that young people will need to enter the global workforce.

While there are currently a number of workflow solutions and Learning Management Systems that work well with iPads, Google Classroom will likely become a top contender for iPad classrooms because of the integration with both the Google Drive and Google Docs iPad apps as well as any number of iPad creativity apps. While there is not an iPad app for Google Classroom, the web interface works seamlessly and allows students to turn in any assignment or file that is in their Google Drive account as illustrated by the video below

It is becoming increasingly apparent that schools operating on a digital base, like all other such organisations, will continually evolve, transform and adapt to a higher form. Moreover, they will do so in a remarkably common way, displaying at each stage of their evolutionary journey remarkably similar attributes.

If you want your school to grow, the school and its community needs to take charge of that growth. Every pathfinder school operating at the 'Networked' or 'Digital Normalisation' stage of the school evolutionary stages continuum discussed in the first article of this series had taken charge of its own evolution. While a few have had some astute support from their education authority, the majority embarked on their evolutionary quest 15 to 20 years ago, and throughout their journey, have recognised the importance of being proactive.