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Brian C. Smith

AssortedStuff - 0 views

www.assortedstuff.com/?s=ipod+touch

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shared by Brian C. Smith on 24 Mar 09 - Cached
  • While I think the iPod Touch could be an excellent learning tool (my iPhone certainly is), I’m also the resident curmudgeon about such things so naturally I have a few concerns about this initiative.
  • it’s clear that many people around here are looking at the iPod Touch the same way they do our current laptops.
  • Almost exclusively we use computers as group technologies. We have a bunch of them in a lab and then bring in a bunch of kids to use them for some teacher-designed activity.
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  • They are designed to be customized, personalizing the user’s experience so, instead of everyone seeing the same desktop, we all see ourselves in the device.
  • However, the iPod Touch, and other pocket computing devices, are intended for personal use.
  • We just need to find people who are already using these devices in our schools (our IT department sees several thousand a day on the network) and invite them to tell us how they use their iPod Touch.
  • And the few instructional examples noted in the article are pretty much the same as some of the very superficial whiteboard lessons I’ve observed.
  • Brian C. Smith on 24 Mar 09
     
    Tim Stahmer's writing on the iPod Touch
  • Brian C. Smith on 24 Mar 09
     
    A search on "ipod touch" on Tim Stahmer's blog (www.assortedstuff.com) pulls up some interesting perspective.
Lucy Gray

Edu-Rap 4 iKids - 5 views

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iPhone apps kids

shared by Lucy Gray on 12 Jan 10 - Cached
Brian C. Smith

iPad pilot program brings new ideas to special education | ABC Newspapers - 17 views

abcnewspapers.com/...new-ideas-to-special-education

shared by Brian C. Smith on 17 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Alternative test formats
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jan 11
       
      Of course they will!
  • “We think there are many areas in special education where this kind of technology can be successful, but we need data to make good decisions.”
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jan 11
       
      What of our tacit knowledge about learning, including that knowledge about the students?  Is this no good?  Can we not act upon what we know and not solely upon sterile data from a test?
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jan 11
       
      Granted, the iPad has potential in school, but this article, among many others, is so vague at how the device is different other than the screen size and a mention of it's price tag.   iPads seem to be going the way of the IWB.   I still contend that these won't be successful until they are made personal.  Meaning, give it to the kid to have for the entire year.  Let them take it home, play with it, read on it, correspond on it and make their learning personal.   I'm currently in a pilot with iPads and the students are lukewarm to the device because they know it will go away or that they won't be able to make it work for them personally.  
Terry Elliott

iPod grants bring high-tech lessons to students of all ages | AAPSNews - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 17 Feb 11 - Cached
  • At Skyline High School, at least a dozen uses are planned for the 100 iPod Touches that were awarded via the technology grant. The uses will undoubtedly lead to hundreds of future projects, said Pete Pasque, instructional technologist at the school. They are “productivity tools to help manage what students are learning,” he said. “It’s so exciting to have students as creators. That’s what we’re trying to do at Skyline.” Pasque said he hopes to see the iPod Touches used for everything from recording band practices in order to review music to accelerometers in science class. There’s even talk of putting an iPod in a football helmet, running a play and charting and graphing the impact in Microsoft Excel. “Teachers come to me and say ‘hey Pete, I want to do this’ … and I say ‘OK let me figure it out,’” Pasque said. “It’s going to make it more real world for the kids.” Uzelac said she had so many requests for iPod Touch grants from Skyline, that she asked for a combined proposal. Skyline had a dozen teachers ask for 500 as a school; Skyline was given 100 in the grant process.
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

iPads Make Better Readers, Writers -- THE Journal - 26 views

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iPad research writing reading ebooks kids learning ipads

shared by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 08 Sep 11
     
    The Journal provides this article containing research showing the impact of an iPad on developing reading skills.
John Evans

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

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iPad ZDNet ipads deployment

shared by John Evans on 05 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • There is an entire cultural shift that needs to accompany 1:1 deployments (whether or not they involve iPads).
  • 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
  • John Evans on 06 Oct 11
     
    "The jury is still out on school iPad deployments"
Cyndi Danner-Kuhn

Preposition Builder | Teachers with Apps - 17 views

teacherswithapps.com/?p=3251

ipad apps education preposition teachers iPads

shared by Cyndi Danner-Kuhn on 09 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 09 Oct 11
     
    "This app is a wonderful learning tool for all kids at some point in their development. We found this app especially helpful with ESL students, of all ages."
lauren teather

iSchool | Funderstanding - 0 views

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ipad

shared by lauren teather on 10 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • An iPad in each student’s hands replaces a classroom’s overhead projector, DVD player, pull-down maps, smartboard and myriad other old, bulky, and clumsy hardware. The attractive interactivity of tablet technology feels natural to kids raised on Xbox, YouTube and Facebook.
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