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Larry Cuban's blog on Las Montanas High School- Laptops in the classroom

Can the use of laptops in the classroom cure the fourth grade slump?

Recently, the popular press has pointed to increasing evidence of misuse and abuse of emerging technologies in U.S. schools. Some examples include using Web sites to intimidate or threaten students, downloading music illegally from the Internet, plagiarizing information using the Internet, using cellular phones during class time, and playing games on laptops or handhelds during class. How can these issues be addressed?

5 mistakes schools make with iPad.1) Focusing on content apps2) Lack of Teacher Preparation in Classroom Management of iPads3) Treating the iPad as a computer and expecting it to serve as a laptop.4) Treating iPads like multi-user devices5) Failure to communicate a compelling answer to "Why iPads?"

Comparison and study on hand written notes vs typed

As technology takes a bigger place in the professional and personal world today, it is also finding its way into more and more public classrooms across the country. From laptops to iPads, students are learning to incorporate technology into the learning process to enhance their educational experience overall.

iPads are making waves in education all over the nation, even in college classrooms, where they're replacing laptops, textbooks, and notebooks. Some colleges have even gone so far as to hand out iPads to new students, helping students and faculty all work with the same technology for learning.

This has been in Beta for a while but they have a pretty good free version available. This allows for online question response and instant feedback like a set of classroom clickers some of us use. It works well and is free so check it out.

Like a Polleverywhere.com but better! Allows for quizzes, exit slips and more.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

This site keeps up with a lot of the going ons in the Windows world. It used to be wpcentral.com (windows phone central) but with all the integration and cross-platform items with Windows 8.1 and now with 10, they bring a lot of news, information and resources about all Windows Products.