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Learning and Teaching with iPads: Educational Apps from Education Services Australia - 11 views

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John Evans on 28 Oct 11

"Education Services Australia has released more quality educational literacy and numeracy Apps, and the good thing is that they are free"

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Mosaic - 14 views

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docmacpro on 23 Oct 12

Photo book printing service coming soon (Oct 2012). Book created directly on iOS device. Four days shipping; US only (for now); $20

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Photo book printing service coming soon (Oct 2012). Book created directly on iOS device. Four days shipping; US only (for now); $20</div>

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docmacpro on 23 Oct 12

Soon to be released service that allows you to create beautiful, printed photobooks on your iOS device, then order and receive four days later (US only for now). Very tasteful, high quality and reasonably priced, according to pre-release reviews.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Soon to be released service that allows you to create beautiful, printed photobooks on your iOS device, then order and receive four days later (US only for now). Very tasteful, high quality and reasonably priced, according to pre-release reviews.</div>

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The jury is still out on school iPad deployments | ZDNet - 7 views

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Paper usage has decreased with some “some teachers going paperless” and many the use of ebooks instead of dead tree books was highlighted in a particular class.
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The problem with too many iPad deployments (like the one highlighted in Zeeland) is that schools end up doing the same thing they were before the new technology rolled out, except now they’re using “21st Century Technologies” to do them
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he examples cited in the USA Today article (using iPads for flash card Apps or highlighting passages in a text with touch) hardly point to the pedagogical shift that tools like the iPad can enable
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When students can access tutoring resources whenever they need them or are driven to explore and create in new ways, when students build their own cloud-synced portfolios of high quality work, when students find new things they want to learn and are imbued with the curiosity and empowered with the tools and time (and guidance) to go after knowledge, when students spend their lunches with their iPads under a tree reading a good book that they were allowed to download instead of watching teenagers crashing skateboards on YouTube, then you have some transformation
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There is an entire cultural shift that needs to accompany 1:1 deployments (whether or not they involve iPads).
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hat we have to avoid is the impression that handing a lot of kids iPads suddenly prepares them for the 21st Century without a whole lot of work on the backend in everything from network infrastructure to teacher coaching and professional development
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John Evans on 06 Oct 11

"The jury is still out on school iPad deployments"

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