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Pamela Johnson told me about this.

Interested to hear if/how people might be using the iPad with young children, to provide new learning opportunities. Please share news/resources about this, and particularly any hands on uses (if you try things out), would love to hear about it.

Recipient of a PBS Innovative Educator Award and PBS Teacher's Choice Award, Brian Puerling helps early childhood educators explore the possibilities with technology by sharing ways to embrace new technology in the classroom, how to integrate and how the use of technology can enhance and augment practices that foster development.

Includes "Pre-K" teachers for 2nd year. Interesting stats on K-12 vs. Pre-K access to technology and usage of digital media.

"The site will provide digital content tied to curriculum standards and will be available in both a free and premium format." Interesting to see how they are organizing digital content to make it easy to access...

What are your thought?