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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.

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.”

In kindergarten,

by focusing kindergarten work on the number core: learning how numbers correspond to quantities, and learning how to put numbers together and take them apart

high school standards

People need language to fully understand numbers. This discovery – long suspected, and now backed by strong evidence – may shed light on the way children acquire their number sense.

homesigners were given a set of objects and asked to use tokens to create a second set containing the same number of tokens as objects. Again, their accuracy dropped significantly above sets of three objects.

Children learn this count list well before they actually understand that "four" refers to four objects rather than three or six, says Michael Frank at Stanford University in California.

an infographic is, it’s the fusion of graphic design, with data handling

Getting your pupils to produce an infographic gives an attractive alternative to ‘draw me a pie chart showing what different hobbies people have in the class’. I think the key to getting good infographics from the pupils is engaging them with good ones in the interpretation lesson so they know what they are aiming at.

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