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Timothy Smith

Apple Study Trip: Day 1 ~ ICT For Educators - 9 views

  • From the different visits, one message became most apparent: when combined with good pedagogy and curriculum planning, the iPad can be used as a powerful tool to help transform teaching and learning.
  • older children are given permission to download apps on their own
  • Students are each given a $50 iTunes credit to spend on apps throughout the year.
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  •  iPad has helped to make classes go more smoothly by making access to content more efficient and helping students personalize their learning.
  •    In looking at the devices and talking to students, it was apparnet that they were mostly using apps built into the iPad and Macbooks such as Keynote, Pages (notetaking), Garage Band, iMovie (content creation), iWeb (content sharing and self expression).
Rick Beach

How 'Big Three' Publishers Are Approaching iPad Textbooks -- THE Journal - 3 views

  • As digital and mobile technologies assume a growing role in classrooms around the country, the stalwart textbook has remained largely analog. But this past January, Apple turned heads when it expanded its iPad bookseller, iBookstore, to include textbooks in partnership with the three largest K-12 publishers, who, together, are responsible for around 90 percent of textbook sales in the market.
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    Publishers creating e-textbooks for use on iPads--raising questions about memory storage on iPads
Caroline Roche

What apps do what - Google Drive - 17 views

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    An open source spreadsheet allowing you to add which iPad apps are useful for teaching, and why.
Patti Porto

Ipad vs. Paper - YouTube - 20 views

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    This cracked me up!
International School of Central Switzerland

iPads at AES - a snapshot of iPads in school - YouTube - 7 views

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    The American Embassy School in New Delhi acquired 60 iPads and are deploying them across the school divisions to study their effectiveness as student and professional tools. This is a 15 minute portrait of that program.
International School of Central Switzerland

App Store - Musée du Louvre - 2 views

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    Musée du Louvre official application To celebrate the success of the official Louvre App, we've developed a new version with even more artworks and functions! Discover the museum and its most beautiful artworks, and stay updated thanks to our new Newsfeed function.
Linda Nitsche

- Apps for Reading Standards: Foundational Skills (K-1) - 2 views

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International School of Central Switzerland

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard for iPad on the iTunes App Store - 14 views

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    Educreations turns your iPad into a recordable whiteboard. Creating a great video tutorial is as simple as touching, tapping and talking. Explain a math formula... Create an animated lesson... Add commentary to your photos... Diagram a sports play...
Brian Licata

A tiny gaming joystick for the iPad [video] - Holy Kaw! - 1 views

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    A tiny gaming joystick for the iPad [video] http://is.gd/klhCZ
Timothy Smith

More Schools Embrace the iPad as a Learning Tool - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • they have overlooked less costly options, like smartphones that offer similar benefits at a fraction of the iPad’s base cost of about $500
    • Timothy Smith
       
      Ok, I'm all for the discussion of "smarphones" but the reality is you can't read for an extended time on a "smartphone." Again it is those physical characteristics that make the iPad so powerful. It is the "just right" size.
  • “It’s not about a cool application,” Dr. Brenner said. “We are talking about changing the way we do business in the classroom.”
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