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Jonathan Wylie

Mac Laptops for Teachers: A Buyer's Guide for Educators - 73 views

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  • Jonathan Wylie on 24 May 10
     
    Are you a teacher looking for a new Macbook? Apple has three feature packed laptops in its Macbook range, but which one has the features and performance that you need for your classroom?\n
Matt Renwick

Five (More) Cool Things You Can Do on Your MacBook Air | Reading By Example - 105 views

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    "Reading"
Roland Gesthuizen

Step 1: give every kid a laptop. Step 2: learning begins? - 16 views

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  • The state program works with teachers to change their lesson plans appropriately; the goal is to get students to think critically and engage with all subjects through creative work. "Since our beginnings, we've always looked at notions of creation," Mao said. "It's not about consumption of content, it's about the creation of knowledge."
  • making a laptop program effective is only 10 or 20 percent about the hardware itself, with the rest being about making sure the teachers know how to use them and how to lead students to proper learning goals
  • Bolting old lesson plans to new computers will do little, but future programs with strong teacher buy-in and excellent institutional support have the potential to do much more.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 12 Feb 12
     
    Countries considering "one-to-one" laptop programs might also compare the OLPC experiences to a different program in Maine. At present, this northeastern state distributes a MacBook to every middle school student and to about half of high school students, for a total of over 70,000 laptops.
Roland Gesthuizen

Pop Chart Lab - The Insanely Great History of Apple - 160 views

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    An infographic showing every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors which have arisen as Apple has invented--and reinvented.
anonymous

iBooks Author workshop - 20 views

In 2013 Chenango Forks sponsored the first area iBooks workshop and the results were amazing. More than 30 participants from around the area learned, collaborated and created iBooks for use in thei...

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Martin Leicht

Opinion | Steve Jobs Was Right: Smartphones and Tablets Killed the P.C. - The New York ... - 6 views

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      Martin Leicht on 14 Nov 19
       
      Would like to know more about "productivity dream machines."
  • they’re productivity dream machines
  • keyboard is better and more durable
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  • Among other things, I now research and write just about every column using an iPad (I still compose many first drafts by speaking into my headphones, but I’m an odd duck).
    • Martin Leicht
      Martin Leicht on 14 Nov 19
       
      Speaking a draft into the headphones, wow, talk about visualization of things? Can you see the draft in your head?
  • Jobs declared the iPad to be the future of computing. “PCs are going to be like trucks,”
  • Like a phone, in most scenarios I find the iPad to be faster, more portable and easier to use and maintain than any traditional P.C. I’ve ever owned.
  • The iPad still can’t do everything a laptop can, and I still have to log in to a “real” computer sometimes.
  • the iPad doesn’t work with antiquated work flows that are built for PCs
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