The Christian school is paying for the iPads, because school officials hope to teach students to “engage the digital world productively,” said Mitchell Salerno, the high school’s principal, in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel. School officials hope to give students the skills expected of them both in college and in the workplace.
Learning and Teaching with iPads: Students construct knowledge with their own iBooks - 9 views
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"I was recently at Our Lady of the Angels Rouse Hill doing a workshop with them in creating iBooks using iBooks Author. The Principal Eva La Rocco and the teachers saw the main benefit for the software as a way of students demonstrating their own understanding and knowledge by creating an iBook that incorporated all their work. The focus being for the students to create content rather than it being pushed to them via a teacher created iBook textbook."
Avoiding "Unmitigated Disasters" - nashworld - 13 views
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"After stumbling upon the article, "Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster,' says school principal," in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly predictable patterns surrounding stories of failed "innovation" in digital learning initiatives. Schools have been assigning computers to each child for some time now. And still, we continue to see stories like this in the media. In short: we can do better than this."
The 21st Century Principal: Top iPad Apps for School Administrators - 4 views
The Innovative Principal - Using iPads for classroom Observations - 1 views
21st Century Walkthrough - 18 views
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Google Forms + iPads, iPods, and iPhones + Administrators via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/01/iphones-google-forms-and-walkthroughs.html
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