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A great blog from an educator in Maryland who is teaching with iPods and iPads.

A great article about pedagogy with the iPad. As the author states, "We have to make the iPad suit the learning, not make the learning suit the iPad to justify having it. So think of the skills you want your students to develop and then work out if the iPad can improve that skill. If it doesn't, don't use it."

This is a great article about how iPads can be used with the writing process. It highlights best practices that teachers can follow in order to best leverage the technology, and suggests apps to support the process.

programming apps for the iPad. Alternatives to Scratch

New music app designed to help teach the concept of rhythm and work on rhythmic skills.

This app curates web cams and content to create a portable zoo for students. A great tool for teaching about animal!

Use the app to create and manipulate 3D objects. They can then be printed out as flat nets and turned into physical objects. This is fantastic for teaching elementary students spatial skills. 

Good annotated list of apps for teaching elementary students about computational thinking.

Free iPad newspaper designed to reach younger students. Could be a good tool for teaching current events as well as the concept of curation.

Similar to Scratch, this app helps to teach kids about programming.

Great post from Charleston, SC kindergarten teacher on differentiating with iPads.

This app has been featured in the Apple iPad commercials for teaching young students to write their letters. Beyond the ability to trace, the app also records letter sounds, names, and phonograms.

Good overview of apps and ideas for starting to teach with iPads. 

At EdTechTeacher, we often teach how to use Evernote as a note taking, workflow, and collaboration tool. This is a blog devoted to it.

Mike Milton's @42thinkdeep reflections on a year with 1:1 iPads. Mike teaches english / history at Burlington, MA High School 

Free lesson planning and screencasting tool for the iPad.

Learning in Hand features project ideas, classroom management strategies, and resources for teaching with mobile technology - including iPod touch, iPad, and iPod.

I sent this link to Chris Harrow, a colleague who teaches math at The Westminster School in Atlanta. Here are his first impressions: Cool = very smooth functionality on the iPad, you can do all the explorations in the most excellent iPad touchscreen environment, a very tactile approach to learning geometry. Frustrating = you have to create the docs elsewhere, on first exploration, I don't see a way to do constructions directly in this app. If a kid gets a good idea that requires additional "stuff" on the construction, s/he may not be able to instantly follow up on intuition. Any one else want to weigh in?

Great app for elementary science students to teach about making observations in the natural world.

When we teach iPad workshops, we like to begin with "tap and hold" as a skill. While many folks have already figured it out, the concept is new to a majority of the educators whom we work with. This is a great post describing some of the results.