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More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • A growing number of schools across the nation are embracing the iPad as the latest tool to teach Kafka in multimedia, history through “Jeopardy”-like games and math with step-by-step animation of complex problems.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      The iPad's becoming more and more prevalent.
  • The iPads cost $750 apiece, and they are to be used in class and at home during the school year to replace textbooks, allow students to correspond with teachers and turn in papers and homework assignments, and preserve a record of student work in digital portfolios.
  • “IPads are marvelous tools to engage kids, but then the novelty wears off and you get into hard-core issues of teaching and learning.”
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      Lack of research backing usefulness makes for controversy.
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  • And six middle schools in four California cities (San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside) are teaching the first iPad-only algebra course, developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      Wow! Would love to see this program!
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Technology is moving in to stay!
Rebecca Patterson

Blue Mars releases free iPhone, iPad apps - Hypergrid Business - 0 views

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  • Avatar Reality, developers of the premium 3D virtual world and social platform, Blue Mars, today announced the release of Blue Mars Mobile, its first application for iPhone®, iPad™, and iPod Touch®. Available for free, the app provides a new level of accessibility to Blue Mars and broadens its reach beyond the PC.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 04 Feb 11
     
    Avatar Reality, developers of the premium 3D virtual world and social platform, Blue Mars, today announced the release of Blue Mars Mobile, its first application for iPhone®, iPad™, and iPod Touch®. Available for free, the app provides a new level of accessibility to Blue Mars and broadens its reach beyond the PC.
Rebecca Patterson

College 2.0: 6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life - Techn... - 0 views

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  • He couldn't find any software to keep those paper check marks on a smartphone, so he wrote his own app about two years ago, in a two-week burst of coding. He called his task-specific app Attendance and put it on the iTunes store for other professors, charging a couple of bucks (and adding features as colleagues suggested them). So far he has earned about $20,000 from the more than 7,500 people who have virtually shouted "Here."
  • A professor at the University of California at Davis is asking drivers to help him with his research on roadkill by logging any dead squirrel, possum, or other critter they see along the highway. At first he asked people to write down the location and details about the carcass on a scrap of paper and upload the information to a Web site when they got home. Then the research team built an iPhone app to let citizen-scientists participate at the scene. It's more convenient, and it gives the researchers better data, because a phone's GPS feature can send along exact location coordinates
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      Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
       
      We could do this with subQuan and having individuals upload where they found situations where subQuanning is better than counting. Uses!
  • That's just one of many research projects adding smartphone interfaces to so-called "crowd science," in which the public is invited to add structured data to an online database. "For crowd science, I think it's definitely the next step
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  • Mr. McAllister, the student blogger at Trinity, uses his iPhone's camera as a document scanner, with an app called JotNot Pro. After he takes a picture of a page of text, the app (which costs 99 cents), can turn it into a PDF file for easy review later.
  • A company named Inkling creates textbooks made for iPads, with interactive features and videos—things that paper volumes cannot do.
  • Brainstorming for classroom talks has gone high-tech with "mind mapping" software that encourages arranging thoughts and ideas in nonlinear diagrams. These programs have been available for years on laptops and desktop computers, but some professors say the touch-screen interface of smartphones or tablet computers enhances the process, letting scholars toss around ideas with a flick of the finger. Gerald C. Gannod, director of mobile learning at Miami University, in Ohio, recommends Thinking Space for Android devices, MindBlowing for the iPhone, and Popplet for the iPad. Mr. Delwiche, of Trinity University, likes MindJet.
  • Rebecca Patterson on 06 Jan 11
     
    Professors write their own apps. Very cool! Couple bucks an app and he's earned $20,000 for a couple weeks of coding. Wow!
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