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"1. Teaching requires planning. 2. Consider where we're spending our education dollars. 3. The iPad is primarily a consumption device. 4. Our students should be mobile multilingual."

Will it?!? "The following piece is by the amazingly talented Adam Webster, Assistant Director of Learning and Teaching at a secondary school in Surrey, England. He writes for both the Edudemic Magazine and his blog 'Cageless Thinking' (worth bookmarking). This article originally appeared on Cageless Thinking and was cross-posted with Adam's permission."

"(student) engagement always goes up when technology is used... to say that iPads result in increased engagement is to say nothing". Are iPads just a craze? Is there a danger that we are using new technology to implement old pedagogy? 

1. Do NOT wait until the last minute to give them to staff. 2. Do NOT expect it to go perfectly on the first day students get them. 3. Do NOT roll out all your apps at the same time on the same day. 4. Do NOT try and control everything about the iPad. 5. Do NOT expect teaching to change immediately. 6. Do NOT assume the entire community will be on board. 7. Do NOT evaluate the program solely with test scores. 8. Do NOT limit staff training to the summer. 9. Do NOT expect email to be the best option for submitting work 10. Do NOT let fear overcome your mission"

Some Los Angeles schoolteachers who use iPads in classroom lessons say it's necessary for teachers to give up some control to make the technology initiative successful. The teachers say they suggested students read but placed no limits on what students read, and asked them to use applications but did not say which ones. The teachers also found that the iPad enhances classroom lessons, but it is not a replacement for good teaching.

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by ADEs to help you transform teaching and learning.

There are mobile applications for devices such as the iPad that can help elementary-school students become critical thinkers, says teacher Diane Darrow. She suggests eight such apps to develop the "remembering" phase of learning -- included in Benjamin Bloom's continuum of higher-order thinking and learning. Darrow suggests teachers use Word BINGO to help students recognize words; Rocket Math, a program that uses math to teach about rocket design; and Shake a Phrase, an app that helps students understand sentence structure

Schools today are investing more time and resources into tablet computers -- and their ability to help improve teaching and learning. In this blog post, Justin Reich, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society and co-Founder of EdTechTeacher, and Beth Holland, a senior associate with EdTechTeacher, write about the ability of the tablet to foster classroom collaboration and meaningful connections for students and teachers.

"In numerous surveys and studies, employers and universities say they desire the following qualities, which many of them say often seem quite absent in young people: Creative thinking Independence / self-drive Teamwork Problem solving strategies Confidence to try new things"

Teaching and Learning with iPad - demonstrates workflow and collaboration opportunities

Educational institutions have rapidly progressed from computer labs for teaching and learning to the use of laptops and now to a wider use of tablet devices. The iPad is gaining popularity as a learning tool at all levels. However, there is limited empirical research available about the nature of students' interaction with the device or the potential of these devices to support student learning. iPads in the Primary School: Emerging Findings from Research, by Garry Falloon, a paper presented at the 2014 Australian Council for Computers in Education conference articulates 'key findings from the first two phases of a 3-year study exploring primary school students' use of iPads and apps in general class settings.

This paper presents a case study of the iPad's adoption in a primary school, one of the first in the world to adopt it. From interviews with teachers and IT staff, we conclude that the iPad's main strengths are the way in which it provides quick and easy access to information for students and the support it provides for collaboration. However, staff need to carefully manage both the teaching and the administrative environment in which the iPad is used, and we provide some lessons learned that can help other schools considering adopting the iPad in the classroom.

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Educational apps for very young children are a booming business. But the research hasn't caught up yet.

Nathan Stevens sharing of how he uses iPads with teaching

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